EMOTIONAL HEALTH & ENERGY HEALING TIPS

What method serves as your main stress reliever?

As men when stressed, we tend to run away from our feelings, push them into our unconscious, or when pushed beyond our limits blow up in a rage. Men, in general, seek the company of other men in some activity like golf or watching a football game to escape their stress and get relief.

Parents also have stress filled lives, including dads and stay-at-home dads (SAHD). Dads who work in companies or own them have the stress of work responsibilities, as well as even the well-being of employees.

SAHD have a variety of other stresses different than men and dads such as cleaning, cooking, child care, laundry and even home schooling.

One major stressor for stay-at-home dads revolves around frustration with the cleanliness of the house. Their wives feel that the home isn’t being cleaned to their standards.
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What is the connection between stress and disease? Research has shown that stress starts at a cellular level in the DNA. Our DNA holds the destructive energy of our unconscious beliefs and feelings. This energy creates stress, which decreases our energy flow and over time affects our emotional health, as well as our physical body with chronic disease. To learn more see The Healing Code by Loyd and Johnson.

What are the top stress management tips for women? Women when stressed tend to reach out to other women for emotional support and express their feelings. Women like to talk about their feelings and tell their stories, usually to other women. Here are some top stress management tips.

1. Develop a Support System – Review and keep in mind what best brings you stress relief so you know what to do when stress builds up.

2. Cultivate Positive Friendships – Have friends you trust and feel safe with. Look for people who can provide you with a positive perspective, who stay calm under pressure, and who have emotional balance.
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Have you experienced trauma, upsetting emotions or overwhelming stress? Do you feel disconnected from people or emotionally numb?

The following 7 tips outline the main areas for beginning healing and recovery from the emotional stress in your life.

1.) EMBRACE YOUR FEELINGS

Rather than avoiding and pushing feelings away learn to hold and contain, like holding a baby in your arms, whatever pain you feel.

Be present with the sensations in your body without doing anything. Over time your feelings will transform, without any effort.

Be Here Now! Learn the skill of living in the present rather than the past or the future. This is a new way of looking at our internal world and stress relief.

Living in the moment with all our feelings and pain becomes an acquired skill. When we avoid and push our pain away, it remains as an undercurrent of stress in our lives, never healing. Has that method worked for you?

Ekhart Tolle describes in detail in his book The Power of Now how you can develop the ability of living in the now, the present moment. Tolle teaches you how your thoughts and emotions get in the way of living in happiness and peace without suffering.

Check out Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now on Amazon.
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As a man how do you handle stress or as a woman how do you see men handling stress?

As men when stressed, we tend to run away from our feelings, push them into our unconscious, or when pushed beyond our limits blow up in a rage. Men, in general, seek the company of other men in some activity like golf or watching a football game to escape their stress and get relief.

Growing up, the oldest of five, in a family with a raging alcoholic father, I withdrew into myself for protection. So I learned at an early age to bottle up my feelings. I lived with the stress of never knowing when my father would come home drunk and goad my mother into a verbal fight.

As a teenager, I never consciously thought about ways to relieve stress. I simply lived with it and the constant desire to find a way to escape the family as soon as possible. Living on a farm, however, gave me the chance to be outside and in nature a great deal of the time. Nature grants natural stress relief as well as being a mood elevator.

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Breathe Deeply

How can we manage stress and particularly during the holidays? These stress management techniques can be done anywhere at anytime.

1. Breathe deeply

A few minutes of deep abdominal breathing can provide stress relief and begin to calm us.

Place your right hand on your abdomen and push it out as you breathe in.

Then imagine all your tension leaving your body as you breathe out through your feet and your abdomen contracts inward towards your spine.

You can also focus on specific individual tension areas as you breathe in and relax these as you breathe out.

A few minutes of conscious breathing can calm us.  The advantage is that we can do it anywhere such as seating at a desk, driving in a car, or walking.
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Women Bonding

Women when stressed tend to reach out to other women for emotional support and express their feelings. Women like to talk about their feelings and tell their stories, usually to other women.

Suzanne Kramss has handled stress over her life in these ways. In the hormone laden years, women turn to their best friends when stressed – salt, sugar, and lots of chocolate. Sadly, food can easily become the source of stress eating.  Friends are the next outlet. We women tend not talk to our mothers when we are young, but as we get older then we cry the blues to them endlessly. We also talk to hair dressers and manicurists. You just have to be careful when your hair dresser has a bad day because you may end up looking like you are ready for the Westminster Dog show.

Last of all – we talk to our husbands. That’s usually when their eyes glaze over and the only words out of their mouth become – “Yes Honey, of course I’m still listening.” So if not food, friends, family, getting fancied up, we tend to turn to tuning out to soft music, chic flicks (the sappier the better), long baths, and looking through photo albums. And if you are blessed with a man with great hands – a massage will work miracles. Suzanne is a writer, story teller, and mentor for the mentally ill.
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The higher your oxytocin, the higher your happiness and well-being, at least for women says Paul Zak, PhD, a researcher.

Why do men and women handle stress differently?

When stress strikes cortisol and epinephrine hormones elevate blood sugar and blood pressure for both men and women. The brain also releases oxytocin which counters the other two hormones, producing relaxation. Oxytocin may influence our ability to bond with others.

Women, however, produce more oxytocin than men which leads them to form nurturing relationships and to talk about their feelings more when they encounter stress. They “tend and befriend.”
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Stress is hurting our physical and emotional health and contributing to some of the leading causes of death in this country – U.S.A.” 2010 – American Psychological Association.

We all experience stress. Sometimes more tension with given particular situations or people. Although we have no control over what happens to us, we can choose how we act in these situations rather than reacting and feeling overwhelmed or frazzled. The more stressed we become; the more we open ourselves to physical illnesses. The following top stress management tips, if practiced, will increase our physical and emotional wellness.

1. Breathe Deeply

Deep-breath Melanie Weidner

Most of us breathe shallow and unconsciously.

We begin by putting our hand on our abdomen just below the navel.

We inhale slowly through our nose and watch our hand move out as our belly expands as we breathe deeply.

We hold our breath for a few seconds, and then exhale slowly out as you push the belly in as far as possible.

Repeat several times.

Breathing deeply and consciously from our diaphragm increases oxygen into our blood which relaxes us and decreases stress.
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Heart Grid

Have you experienced trauma, upsetting emotions or overwhelming stress? Do you feel disconnected from people or emotionally numb a lot?

The following 7 tips outline the main areas for beginning healing and recovery from the emotional stress in your life.

1.) EMBRACE YOUR FEELINGS

Rather than avoiding and pushing feelings away learn to hold and contain, like holding a baby in your arms, whatever pain you feel.

Be present with the sensations in your body without doing anything. Overtime the feelings will transform, without any effort.

See Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.
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Building emotional wellness and health in a holistic manner is a useful life skill in the context of today’s stressful world.   Stress is often the result of life lived on the fast lane so it is smart to be able to know if and how the effects of stress on the body play out in your hips.

How does stress affect health issues was pioneered by Louise Hay, author of ‘Heal Your Body’.  You can use the following complementary health tips to understand possible issues that may underlie and help you to better understand fat hips.

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