Archive for July, 2009

Stress has become a part and parcel of everyone s life today, and we often find ourselves stretching beyond our means to meet the demands on our time. The balancing act between the professional and personal world can be taxing to most of us, and in a lot of cases this constant balancing has led […]

The United Nations declares workplace stress to be a worldwide epidemic. In the United States alone, forty-six percent of workers report that their job is very stressful. This adds up to a million stress related workplace absences each day.
Individual stress control techniques are important. Meditation, soothing music, biofeedback, and other […]

From the time of the first human beings, stress has been with us. It is part of our natural response to challenging situations. When our forefathers were faced with a potentially dangerous situation, such as facing a wild animal, the stress response would ready the body for ‘fight or flight’. Stress chemicals […]