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Positive Affirmations for Coping with Stress and Tension – Purpose Fairy

The power of these positive affirmations for coping with stress and tension will help you take your focus away from the things that cause you stress. Source: Positive Affirmations for Coping with Stress and Tension – Purpose Fairy

How to Deal with Job Burnout and Workplace Stress – Purpose Fairy

Job burnout is a type of stress that can consume you physically, mentally, and emotionally. And you should definitely look for ways to correct it. Source: How to Deal with Job Burnout and Workplace Stress – Purpose Fairy

How Many Minutes of Daily Meditation to Combat Stress? | NutritionFacts.org

In the film The Holiday, Cameron Diaz exclaims “Severe stress … causes the DNA in our cells to shrink until they can no longer replicate.” Did Hollywood ge Source: How Many Minutes of Daily Meditation to Combat Stress? | NutritionFacts.org

Managing Stress

Managing stress is a difficult problem for most people. They either succumb to it and panic (like I did on my Ph. D. orals at the University of Chicago) or they use it as a trigger to harness their full capacity to conquer their situation (like I did when I first got cancer in 1997). […]

The Right Amount of Stress

The right amount of stress in any given situation is called eustress and an overwhelming amount of is called distress. It is possible to generate eustress in situations where we put ourselves out, stretch our limits, and reach out of our comfort zone. On the other hand, distress can be very harmful to our immune […]

6 Steps to Manage Stress and Overcome Difficulties – Purpose Fairy

Here are 6 steps you can take to help improve your ability to deal with life’s inevitable changes, manage stress and overcome difficulties: Source: 6 Steps to Manage Stress and Overcome Difficulties – Purpose Fairy

The Upside of Stress

Kelly McGonigal gave a talk on How to Turn Stress into an Advantage from her new book, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It. The talk took place at the 2015 99U conference at Lincoln Center in New York City. In Kelly’s research, she learned […]

Melt Your Stress Away: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy

Melt Your Stress Away: Guided Meditation. Feeling stressed? Melt your stress away and release any tension you may be feeling with this relaxing guided meditation. Source: Melt Your Stress Away: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy

Kelly McGonigal Says Stress is Good for You!

Kelly McGonigal says stress is good for you! She is not the only one. When Laura Silva talks about stress in the Silva Life System, she calls this kind of good stress, eustress. Imagine that you work for an organization with hundreds of employees and you’re about to give a presentation to the entire group. […]

Why Stress is Good for You

As you well know if you have been following Meditation Practices for a while, I am a big fan of Kelly McGonigal and her wonderful work at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University. Her new book, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to […]