EMOTIONAL and MENTAL STESSORS
Worrying
If it is in your control -- do something about it. Put all the energy you spend worrying into creating a solution to whatever is causing your worry. If it is out of your control -- dismiss it!
Unresolved problems with family members/ unresolved childhood trauma
Forgive your loved ones and ask for forgiveness. Seek out a loving and caring counselor or support group to help you heal emotional pain.
Anger
Find a way to constructively express your anger.
Job dissatisfaction
Find a purpose in life. Do something that gives you satisfaction. Help others.
Guilt and Shame
Practice honesty in all your relationships (especially with your self). Communicate your feelings openly.
PHYSICAL STRESSORS
Tension
Get a massage or exercise
Lack of energy or feeling weak
Exercise, eat healthy meals, get plenty of rest
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS
Every day hassles
Learn to recognize your response to external situations and develop coping skills like breathing and relaxation exercises to help you stay calm and centered.
(Owen Clinic Online)
Coping with Common Stressors
The butter...please
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal, so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings.
DO YOU KNOW.. the difference between margarine and butter?
Read on to the end...gets very interesting!
Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% <> according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added!
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.
Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around less than 100 years.
And now, for Margarine..
Very high in trans fatty acids .
Triple risk of coronary heart disease .
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.
Lowers quality of breast milk.
Decreases immune response.
Decreases insulin response..
HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.
This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).
You can try this yourself:
Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:
* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)
* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it.
Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?
Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to "butter them up")!
(thanks to friends who emailed this)
Stroke and Needles
When a stroke occurs, stay calm. No matter where the victim is, do not move him/her because if moved, the capillaries will burst.
Help the victim to sit up where he is to prevent him from falling over again, and then the bloodletting can begin.
If you have in your home an injection syringe that would be the best, otherwise, a sewing needle or a straight pin will do.
1. Place the needle/pin over fire to sterilize it, and then use it to prick the tip of all 10 fingers.
2. There are no specific acupuncture points, just prick about a mm from the fingernail.
3. Prick till blood comes out.
4. If blood does not start to drip, then squeeze with your fingers.
5. When all 10 digits are bleeding, wait a few minutes then the victim will regain consciousness.
6. If the victim's mouth is crooked, then pull on his ears until they are red.
7. Then prick each ear lobe twice until two drops of blood come out of each ear lobe. After a few minutes, the victim should regain consciousness.
Wait till the victim regains his normal state, without any abnormal symptom. then take him to the hospital; otherwise, if he was taken by ambulance in a hurry to the hospital, the bumpy trip will cause all the capillaries in his brain to burst. If he could save his life, barely managing to walk, then it is by the grace of his ancestors.
(thanks to a friend who emailed this one)
