Life can be truly hectic, even chaotic, if we don’t stop now and then to take a few minutes for ourselves. With the invention of computers, our work lives were supposed to get easier, but it’s gotten busier than ever before! However, there are ways to deal with these overwhelming feelings and put some order back into your life. Here are a few tips on how to turn your chaos around...

"The holidays are here again. This time of year is always filled with so much emotion, anxiety, anticipation, love, joy, worry...it’s sometimes hard to stay focused and boundaries tend to get very blurred more easily at this time a year. Do you ever drink too much at parties because it is the only way you know to relieve tension? Do you ever say yes to doing something for or with someone when you know you really don’t have the time, energy or resources? You may be struggling with boundary issues."

It was only after I started using a belief-eliminating process I had created that I realized that the stress was not coming from what was happening, but from the meaning I was placing on what was happening. Once I was able to change the meaning, the stress literally disappeared.

By Medical News Today.  There's no way to avoid stress altogether pressures and tensions are a normal part of everyday existence. But repeated and prolonged stress can do damage to your mind and body. Learning to protect yourself from the effects of chronic stress may help you live a longer, healthier life.

More and more adult clients arrive at psychologist's offices suffering from stress and an inability to concentrate that makes them worry that they may have ADD. Often they are just overstimulated and overwhelmed. Stress is what we experience when the world moves too fast, when there is too much to do and too little time to do it. We feel stressed when the emotional world around us is strained or endangered. Through emotional contagion we feel stressed when others around us are stressed.

Medical News Today. It's a hot-buzz topic that covers everything from improving workplace performance and successfully climbing the corporate ladder to building the happiest of marriages to ending school bullying. But what exactly is Emotional Intelligence (EI)? If we lack it, can we learn it? And how do we know if our EI is high or low? Is it only high if we're really, really nice? Matthews says he's skeptical that people who are better at managing stress hold higher Emotional Intelligence, but as the researchers found as they tried to narrow down the science of Emotional Intelligence, more research is needed.

Anxiety treatment for generalized anxiety disorder involves teaching the patients techniques of self-help in which they can recognize the symptoms of panic and anxiety and calm themselves, thus reducing the symptoms. The treatment can consist of practicing daily relaxation techniques, making changes to one’s lifestyle and practicing meditation.

By Fiona Parashar. "I was talking about positive stress, Selye’s eustress, with a friend this weekend as she bemoaned a too easy and too comfortable life. She compared her current state to her earlier corporate role where eustress and distress were constant companions. She left because distress outweighed eustress. But here she is a few years later concerned that she’s thrown the proverbial baby out with the bath water."

Most people think upsets and suffering are inevitable.  They aren’t. In fact, there are two different techniques that will dissolve your upsets and suffering. Let me start with an assertion that I will explain: All upsets result from experiencing yourself as a victim.

"Yeah, sure," you might say. "And how exactly am I supposed to get rid of all the stressful things in my life?" Here's how I answered that question for myself. I was filled with anxiety for most of my life. I worried about what people thought of me, I was worried about not having enough money, and I worried about my mother who was having a difficult time after divorcing my father when I was three. If worry causes stress, I was as stressed as a person could be...