One of the most in-demand careers at the moment are Computer Software Engineers. These tech-savvy folks enjoy a relatively low-pressure career while earning a decent salary. Their focus is designing and testing different software programs; anything from operating systems and business applications to computer games…and many do it all from home. Depending on variables, of course, a computer software engineer can expect an annual income of $54,000 to $130,000.

According to the Bureau of Labour Statistics, Civil Engineers are also in high demand. It’s expected that the demand for their expertise will increase by about 24% over the next ten years, making it an above-average occupation. Although they design and build the nation’s infrastructure, they generally do so within teams. As well, they have a few years to design and complete their projects before construction even begins, which alleviates a lot of personal pressure. They also earn a comfortable $50,000 to $115,000 a year.

If you’re looking for something a little more hands-on, perhaps you should be considering physical therapy. Physical Therapists are well respected in the medical field, have flexible hours and are usually self-employed. It’s expected they will be in higher demand over the next few years as the Baby Boomers hit their golden years and encounter physical challenges. With an annual earning of $50,00 to $105,000, you can see there is rarely a dry spell in this field.

Technical writers are also a high-tech, new age group that are in constant demand. These individuals are paid an easy $47,000 to $98,000 a year to write about newly released gadgets, programs and toys. As companies release technical products, technical writers are required to review and transform the language into a simple consumer language. They may face tight deadlines, but technical writers usually enjoy flexible days and a quiet work environment with a 20-second commute to their computer. This is another job that sees most people working from home.

If something even more relaxed, and possibly even part-time is what you seek, how about a massage therapist? These are generally extremely low-pressure jobs that ensure self-employment and even working part-time. Due to many factors in this field, an annual salary can be whatever you like. On average, a massage therapist will charge around $30 an hour. If you chose to take on many clients, you could easily earn $45,000 or more a year.

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Mums easily shun away from the thought of taking a breather even after being advised by online life coaching experts. For many, there just isn’t enough time for one. However, what most do not know is that it doesn’t take much to get a real, invigorating break. In fact, this article will tell you that there are many stress-relieving activities that you can squeeze into your busy schedule—and they don’t even take longer than ten minutes!

1. Be a bathing beauty.

Never underestimate the power of a warm bubble bath! This is a tried and tested recipe to relieving one’s self of the stress after a long hard day at work. Grab a bubble bath cream of your choice and prepare yourself a nice, soothing bath. Light some scented candles and play soothing music in your bathroom. Immerse yourself in your warm watery bliss and let the soapy water wash all your tension away!

2. Indulge your sweet tooth.

You might have been watching your weight every since you gained your pregnancy pounds. Now that you have made it to having a baby and keeping your job, it’s high time you reward yourself. Yes, it’s the opportune moment to have your dessert fix! Treat yourself to a tub of your favorite ice cream or take your brownie mix from the cupboard and whip yourself up a delightful tray of heavenly chocolate fudge. Forget the calories. Tonight is the night you will follow your sweet tooth’s desire.

3. Have a power nap.

Lunch break or coffee break? Instead of lingering in the office cafeteria after your meal or going over to the vendo machine, try staying inside your cubicle for a quick power nap. Many women have learned through professional coaching that this short siesta can do wonders for you. Catnaps can up your energy to a level you have not anticipated.

4. Phone-a-friend.

Making a short phone call to a trusted pal is not only beneficial in game shows but in your life as a working mum as well. Dial your friend’s number and engage in a brief chat. A bit of communicating can later leave you feeling happy. It will also lift up your spirits if you get to share the challenges of work and motherhood with a friend who is in the same boat with you. You will learn that you are not alone in your journey and this will definitely keep you positive and encouraged.

5. Keep a journal.

Having a journal is not just for teenage girls. This is even more beneficial for working mums who greet each day with a lot of new happenings. Immortalizing your blessings and challenges through the written word will make it possible for you to go through them in the future and thereby help you appreciate the things you have accomplished and the events you have been through.

These are only a few of the many ways by which you can lighten up the load of motherhood. Professionals who specialize in coaching for women assert that it is important to always have a “mom time,” even if it is just ten minutes a day. This will make a big difference in your everyday life as a working mum.

Amanda Alexander is the Director of Coaching Mums. She is a widely renowned ICF-accredited coach, who, since 2003, has helped thousands of working moms to get more time, less guilt, bring balance back into their lives, and have more fun! For truly inspiring articles and professional coaching tips, sign up to receive “Inspire”, our free newsletter at=> http://www.coachingmums.com

There are many sources of stress in today’s world that we need to learn how to deal with rather than try to escape from.

The whole of life is about adjusting to changing circumstances. There are many things that cause stress, such as:

1.changing weather conditions

2.noise levels

3.other peoples’behaviour

4.financial problems

5.family conflict

6.death

7.adolescence

8.menopause

9.illness

10.lack of sleep

11.cultural and religious demands

Our own thinking also adds to our stress and anxiety levels especially if we have perfectionist tendencies.

As a first step forward to stopping anxiety and addiction, it is vital to get appropriate nutrition, rest, exercise and adopt a relaxation process such as meditation or deep conscious breathing and positive self-talk.

This is easier said than done for people who find themselves hurtling through life at the speed of light, burning the candle at both ends and grabbing another coffee or piece of chocolate, just to keep going. The question we would be wise to ask ourselves is why we feel we have to keep going at breakneck speed, no matter what? Where are we rushing to?

Some ways to deal with anxiety and addiction are:

1. Slowing down. When we slow down, we can notice how we are feeling more easily, breathe and calm down, rather than unconsciously put another cigarette in our mouths.

2. Schedule a set time to worry. Keep a notepad with you and each time you notice an anxious thought, write it down to take to your worry time. You can set a timer for 10 or 15 minutes and this can be your worry time. When the time is up, do something that is fun.

3. For people who have a generalized anxiety and no specific worries it is not a wise idea to have a worry time. Rather, watch a funny video and laugh or read some jokes to relax tense muscles. Laughter actually reduces the stress hormones in the body.

4. If you do have worries, writing them down will remove them from your mind and help you better manage them. Learning how to plan, problem-solve, set goals and prioritize them will reduce your anxiety level, rather than feeling overwhelmed and turning to addiction as an escape.

Anxiety and addiction need not take over our lives. Maybe we just need to learn some management skills to help us better deal with the stresses in our lives.

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Some people say life is stressful. It can be. It often isn’t – unless you make it so.

Like a crack addict, some people create drama in their lives to get an emotional high. Once the high subsides, the person Finds Excuses And Reasons (F.E.A.R.) to create more drama – perpetuating the emotional high.

Does this sound like you?

Even a little?

If so, you may be addicted to stress.

Here’s the thing…..

Events in and of themselves do not create stress. It is the meaning you give to these events that causes the stressful reaction. What you have something mean about you or your possibilities is what spins you into a cycle of reactive stress – or a calm deliberate thought process that leads to a healthy outcome.

There are two ways you react to stress: emotionally and physically. Emotional reactions to stress are as varied as there are perspectives on any of the events of your life. The bodily reaction to stress triggers, however, is more hardwired.

Here’s what happens ….

Under stress your adrenal system releases hormones and adrenaline. In a positive state, your brain releases a chemical known as dopamine that makes you feel positive. These are chemical reactions that the body can become addicted to.

If you are a stress addict you will unknowingly create drama in your life where there is no cause just to get the chemical high – beginning with how you think. Your thoughts evoke chemical reactions in your body.

The top 5 signs you are Addicted to Stress are:

1. Chronic lack of ability to focus
2. Overwhelming desire to maintain routine
3. Habitual Procrastination
4. Overall lethargy
5. Persistent negativity

Physical exercise is a great way to relieve stress. When you physically exert yourself, the body releases chemical substances similar in nature to opiates. You get a feel-good high.

As the lemur said in the movie Madagascar, “I like to move it, move it. I like to MOVE IT!”

Find ways to move around more in your daily life. Try using the parking space farthest away from your destination. Walking is a great way to get your feel good blood flowing.

Reaching for a newer and better perspective is my all time favorite stress alleviator. The new way of perceiving a situation gives rise to positive thoughts, transmitting chemicals that make me feel good about myself and what I can do to overcome challenges.

Rise to the occasions of your life. Get off the addicted to stress treadmill.

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However, once I give some thought to where stress exists, or is experienced, and the sequence of events leading to the physiology of stress, a body full of hormones and neurotransmitters more appropriate to combating an attack than the board room or the living room, I can recognize that there are some interventions I can work on to change the chemistry inside my body.

I can change my thoughts, which will change my feelings, which will give me more time to make choices about my behavior.

And according to Dr. Daniel Amen, relaxation actually activates the higher perceptual centers of my brain for better decision making.

That is a good payoff for learning a stress management technique.

Perhaps the most important stress management technique to learn is that my thoughts, my interpretations of sensory data, are what brings the chemistry of stress into my body.

And that process happens very fast, about twice as fast as I can blink my eyes.

And one stressful thought can bring on another and another, and before a second has elapsed, (that is right, one second) I may have generated a sequence of thoughts that leave me filled with enough adrenalin and cortisol to move me into distress rather than eustress, and then I can keep myself there long enough to begin to impact my brain fitness, my heart fitness, and the rest of my body too.

My first really successful stress management technique was to say the phrase; “Gratitude is the attitude” to myself, and that worked, because someone always has it worse off than I do, but the relief I felt when saying that phrase to myself was short lived.

Somewhere I had picked up the idea that I was supposed to have long periods of contentment, sort of like a drug experience, and that is not how your body normally works.

In other words, I need to practice gratitude frequently, starting with thoughts (and/or breathing) and my body will eventually follow along and learn that the physiology of contentment is what I want it to learn, and stay near.

In my early days of seeking a seeking a stress management technique, I looked at many different tools, and there are a lot of good meditative and cognitive tools out there, including Open Focus, Transcendental Meditation, working out, but for my money, I want a tool that does not require me to stop what I am doing and sit quietly meditating.

In other words it has to be usable while I am going about my daily business, and of all the tools I have tried, the one that has worked best for me is learning how to do the heart rate variability biofeedback.

I can feel the change using heart rate variability biofeedback, and since I learned the skill on a computer, I know that my physiology changes when I do the Quick Coherence Technique.

So when I feel myself getting critical or judgemental or snappy, (and I still use gratitude thoughts by the way) I can switch my thoughts to the area around my heart, place my children’s faces there, and feel my heart become more coherent, and since I have some experience with Heartmath heart rate variability biofeedback, my body switches back to a cooperative and affiliative physiology within a heart beat.

Not quite the speed of thought but close, and that tool has saved me a lot of regrets over the years. I have been able to operate from a heartfelt cooperation and affiliation more and more often.

In fact, the practice of heart rate variability has given me a felt experience of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy concept that you do not have to accept thoughts as truths. You can dispute them. In other words, I can fill myself with love and then think one distressing thought and fill myself with the feeling of stress or despair, and then think the loving thought, and feel the love come right back into my body. You can even dispute the thoughts that make you feel good, if you want.

So we have managed to move ourselves from the realm of the external making me feel stressed, because it is my thought about the external that brings on the adrenalin and cortisol inside my body, and using and some mindfulness coupled with some practice, I can steer my physiology like I steer my car with thousands of small adjustments.

In fact, I may get so good at heart rate variability biofeedback that it runs in the background of my brain, popping into the foreground for a heart beat’s worth of attention on an as-needed basis.

It is important to recognize for some folks that heart rate variability biofeedback is a learned skill and does not override any basic biological process. In other words, I can still activate my fight or flight chemistry if needed for a real attack.

If you want to check out the benefits of having your own personal stress management technique for your neurogenesis, or the growth of new brain cells, then read Brainfit for Life by Simon Evans,Ph.D. and Paul Burghardt,Ph.D.

Hope you enjoy your coherence!

Michael S. Logan is a brain fitness expert, counselor, a student of Chi Gong, and a licensed one on one HeartMath provider. I enjoy the spiritual, the mythological, and psychological, and I am a late life father to Shane, 10, and Hannah Marie, 4, whose brains are so amazing.

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Stress is a response produced by your body when you are subjected to various types of demand, whether physically, mentally, or emotionally. Contrary to what most people believe, stress is not associated with the negative only since excessive positive emotions can result to stress as well. When something that takes place or is about to take place in the environment is producing stress in a person’s body, it results into the release of certain chemicals into your bloodstream.

On the positive side, these chemicals can be utilized to produce more energy or added strength. This is helpful when the cause of your stress is something physical. But when you are dealing with emotional stress, it can cause a negative effect on your body since there is no outlet for releasing that extra boost of energy and strength. Therefore, stress results to various types of emotional or physical responses because each individual’s body respond differently to the stimulus.

Types and Causes of Stress

Whether you admit it or not, stress is a part of everyday life. Whether you are at school, at the office, or just about anywhere you are forced to deal with people and the environment. Hence, the types of stress is closely associated with its cause. And because your physical body is closely connected to your emotional and mental state, you will notice some connection to their effects when you begin to experience stress. This is also the reason why it is important to combat the cause of stress since it affects several vital aspects of your body in order to function.

Here are some of the most common sources of stress that must be dealt with on an everyday basis.

Internal Stress

There are times when you constantly worry about certain events without having enough control to determine its outcome. Internal stress is also one of those kinds of stress that needs to be addressed quickly. Most of the source of stress is rooted in the person’s mind, which makes it difficult to manage and would entail more work to get rid of. Oftentimes, people suffering from internal stress subconsciously puts themselves in stressful situations or feel stressed out about things that aren’t stressful to begin with.

Survival Stress

This type of stress deals with the danger, mostly physical, that an individual is subjected to. It can be prompted by an attack made by either human or animal that could potentially hurt you in the process. Therefore, your body releases this burst of energy that you need to utilize to respond quickly about the situation at hand whether to confront it or escape from it.

Environmental Stress

This type of stress is your body’s way of responding to changes or activities in your environment that could produce stress, such as extreme levels of noise or pressure from work. As compared to the other types of stress already mentioned above, this one is a lot easier to deal with. The best way to get started combating this stress type is to determine the source. Once you have identified the source of environmental stress, find a way to avoid them.

Stress Due To Work and Fatigue

Another common type of stress and probably the most prevalent. This one though does not happen in an instant, but rather builds up over time. When you are spending too much time working or forced to deal with excessive amount of work, then it can take its toll on your body. To deal with work stress, you need to make sure you have enough rest and relaxation in between so your body can recover from the tremendous amount of work. There are relaxation methods that you can apply in order to find relief from stress.

Physical And Behavioral Signs Of Stress

Stressors can be either external or internal. External stressors involve situations in the workplace, death or illness in the family, or by simply becoming angry. On the other hand, most of the stress that people experience is self-generated or internal. A person usually creates his or her own stress but this indicates that the person has the choice or doing nothing or something about it.

Stress can affect major body systems. When a person feels stressed, there is an increase in heart rate, elevation in the blood pressure. The continuous pressure in the heart can make a person susceptible to cardiac arrest and other heart-related problems.

The digestive system is also affected during stress. Some people can experience diarrhea, constipation, vomiting, dryness of the mouth and the throat. Almost every time stress can also cause sleeping disturbances, nausea, and in serious cases tightness of the chest, neck, jaw and the back muscles.

Changes in behavioral patterns are also noticeable in a person experiencing the duress of stress. Smokers experience increase in smoking pattern. Aggressive behaviors and hostility towards others and even inanimate objects are sometimes linked to a person being easily startled. A person’s diet can also be affected by the irregular eating habits caused by stress.

Some people who cannot handle stress usually resort to alcohol and drug use. Additionally, compulsive behavior, impatience and carelessness are also the behavioral effects of stress.

Long Term Implications

Exposure to stress in the long term can surely deteriorate a person’s well-being. During stress the body produces hormones that enable the body to cope with the current situation. Short term effects of adrenaline, noradrenaline, and corticosteroids include tense muscles, queasiness and an in increase in breathing and heart rates.

The long term implications of these hormones include allergic reactions, digestive disorder, heart disease, fatigue headaches and migraine. Impotence and premature ejaculation can occur in men while erratic menstrual cycle for women.

When the body continuously releases the hormones, sleeping patterns can also be affected and can sometimes lead to insomnia. In severe cases, stress, in the long run, can cause eczema, ulcerative colitis, mouth and peptic ulcers and recurring muscular aches and pains. 

Living Healthy

How a person identifies stress is important to overall health. When stress becomes too huge to handle, the damage to a person’s physical and mental well-being can be irreversible. Living a healthy life can help a person cope with stress easily.

Exercise is very important in stress and health management. Along with a healthy diet, exercise is the most effective way to lower stress levels. It improves sugar metabolism through efficient use of insulin. Exercise also aids in putting a stop in the nasty cycles of stress-eating, indulgence to alcohol, cigarettes and drugs.

A person can also consider taking herbs, and anti-stress supplements. Taking vitamins and avoiding alcohol are successful methods in improving health and help a person cope with stress better.

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