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The headline makes it sound so simple – conquering stress!! Ask people who have suffered from panic, anxiety or stress attacks and they will tell you how difficult this task seems to them. Can you really conquer these monsters? However difficult this task may seem - Yes, you can. In fact you can blow them away – literally. If there is one thing that can help cure panic attacks or anxiety or stress, it is – hold your breath folks – breathing properly.
In this post I will try and cover this very important aspect of stress management. I will also detail out the 5-7-8 breathing technique here so that you can see the practical benefits for yourself. You can also read about the nifty stress relief product that can really help you to regulate your breathing - The resperate music breathing kit.
Breathing has a profound effect on our nervous system. Breath regulation Continue reading →

You might discover the answer to your stress and anxiety in your sleep!!! Most people don’t realize this, but a very common cause of many mental problems including stress and anxiety is lack of sleep or rather, lack of quality sleep. If you need more than 30 minutes to fall asleep, or if your sleep is interrupted often and you have difficulty in falling asleep again, then read on.
Lucky for us (not so lucky for him though) filmmaker Alan Berliner has struggled with sleep disorders and has even made a documentary WIDE AWAKEon this topic.

“A brilliantly edited blend of the hilarious and deeply personal, WIDE AWAKEweaves hundreds of archival film clips, consultations with sleep specialists, an overnight stay at a sleep lab, conversations with family members, home movies, dream visualizations,….”

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This is not about Truffaut’s infamous film ‘The 400 Blows’. Rather this is going to be a multipart series of posts which will highlight one stress relief therapy or approach in each post. Drugs and western medication are by no means the last word on healing and there are many more avenues and approaches that can work wonders depending on the case at hand.
This first post in this series will focus on the use of electro mechanical gadgets and products to provide relief. Do mechanical stress relief products have any role to play in a problem that seems to be in the ‘mind’?
The answer to this question lies in understanding the complex relationship between the mind and the body. Continue reading →

Firstly my apologies for the use of the masculine gender. It was too tempting to twist the old saying which originates from the times when men ruled the world (well, almost).

We have all heard about how stress, panic and anxiety make the heart beat faster. But now more than a decade long research has led to the conclusion that the reverse may also be possible.

If you were somehow able to see your heart rhythms and were able to control these rhythms then you are likely to directly affect the whole body and relieve yourself from the effects of stress. A shift in heart rhythms may not seem important but in fact it creates a favorable cascade of neural, hormonal and biochemical events that benefit the entire body. The stress relief effects are both immediate and long lasting.

But how do you control your heart rhythms? Till very recently you couldn’t. But the company that has done more than 15 years of scientific validation and research into this phenomena shows you how.
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