Stress and depression make you older at cellular level.

Well, it’s October and between having to lodge your tax return by the end of the month, the HSC in about a week or so, Christmas round the corner plus all your ongoing daily rush for many it’s a stressful time of the year.

Did you know that the way you breathe controls your thoughts and emotions?

Neuro stress release (NSR) is a physical and conscious stress relief technique. The method, which can be used anywhere any time, aims to improve your clarity of thinking, let go of what doesn’t serve you and feel happier!

The health of our pets may also be affected by stress and emotions. Learn the causes of stress in your pet and how it affects their behaviour and do your part to keep them healthy.

Stress is such as broadly used term these days. We hear of stress management, stressed out, biological stress, environmental stress, post traumatic stress. Hans Selye a scientist and pioneer of stress wrote of stress theory back in the early 1930’s. Interestingly the introduction of this term coincided with the Great Depression.

Many dismiss hope as useless and unrealistic optimism. On the contrary, hopeful thinking is responsible for delivering many of us from our toughest struggles and empowering us to follow and achieve our dreams

If someone asked you how your life could be described what would you say? Would you use words such as peaceful, contented, satisfying, relaxing, passionate? Or would you use words such as busy, stressed, chaos, anxiety, non stop, exhausted?

One of the things I get asked a lot is how I manage to keep all of my balls in the air without losing my composure and also managing to be happy and content most of the time. I know it certainly is hard to keep stress low when you have a lot on your plate but it is possible to be busy without it turning into stress, anxiety and exhaustion.

Laughing is one of the best known remedies of a lot of illnesses. People have been known to laugh themselves well from cancer or to stop anxiety attacks through learning how to laugh. It can also seriously lighten your mood and your outlook on life and reduce stress and anxiety. Laughing is a lot more […]

WalkScore.com The website much loved by Real Estate Agents that cleverly uses Google Maps to analyse neighbourhoods and rate them according to walkers needs. The Dark Mistress loves data, but do we need a website to tell us what we can find out by … gasp… actually walking? Walkscore will tell you what Google knows […]

For: Busy people who live in denial of the fact that the vehicle via which we browse the internet is, in fact, a human body…. Who: The-Dark-Mistress-Of-Denial.    Who is She?    You may already know her … 40+ years old, 20 years of deskwork behind her, in need of stress relief, and 20 years work of […]