| Copyright (c) 2007 Stephen Lau
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| | a passive way of dealing with your
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| Relaxation is important to both physical
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| | stress.
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| and mental health. Mental relaxation
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| | Life is full of problems. Understanding
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| benefits not just your mind but also your
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| | yourself and the things that trouble you
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| body.
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| | most is an important step in solving your
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| Stress is part of life; it is almost
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| | lifes problems, thereby eliminating much
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| impossible to avoid stress. In fact,
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| | of the stress. Your mental health is
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| attempting to avoid stress is enough to
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| | determined by the way you work with and
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| create stress. Stress is what you
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| | relate to others. In other words, you may
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| experience emotionally and internally in
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| | have behavioral problems that create
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| response to a given situation with which
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| | stress for you at work and in
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| you are incapable of coping. However,
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| | relationships. Isolating yourself in
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| stress, ironically enough, may also be
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| | order to avoid these behavioral problems
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| beneficial in that it teaches you about
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| | only makes you more difficult to enjoy
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| how to handle difficult situations in
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| | good mental health.
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| life. Learning to deal with demands in
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| | To deal with any behavioral problem, you
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| life keeps your mentally healthy, just as
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| | must learn how to communicate easily and
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| exercise keeps you physically fit.
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| | clearly with others. You must be a good
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| Stress is related to your feelings, which
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| | listener. You must be assertive without
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| signal that something is not in order.
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| | being critical or aggressive. You must
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| Stress, therefore, requires expression of
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| | learn to trust others, and see the good,
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| these emotions in an appropriate way in
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| | instead of the bad, in others.
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| the form of mental relaxation.
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| | Eliminating stress is not equivalent to
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| Mental relaxation is possible only when
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| | producing mental relaxation. To help your
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| you have a plan for a balanced lifestyle,
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| | mind relax, you need to give it a
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| including regular bedtime, even on
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| | break. When you are asleep, your mind
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| weekends and holidays. The reason is that
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| | remains very active and does not rest.
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| your bodys biological clock plays an
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| | When you are awake, your mind is
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| important role in regulating your sleep
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| | preoccupied with mostly past and future
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| patterns, which are critical to your
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| | thoughts. Nearly all your thoughts,
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| mental well-being. Plan your daily
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| | including your desires and fears, are
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| routine and pace your life.
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| | based on either the past or the future.
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| Take full responsibility for you own
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| | Your desires are no more than
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| stress. This is the key to managing
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| | recollection of the past pleasure and
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| stress in your life. Never say, You give
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| | hope of repeating them in the future.
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| me stress! Nobody gives you stress but
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| | Fears are also memories of past pain, and
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| yourself. You are responsible for your
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| | your desire to avoid them in the future.
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| own feelings. Otherwise, you would be
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| | To give your mind the rest it rightfully
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| passing the responsibility to others
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| | deserves, help your mind focus on the
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| that does not work in real life.
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| | present moment. Meditation does just
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| Change your attitudes and perceptions of
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| | that: it enables your mind to focus only
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| what you experience in your life. Events
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| | on the present moment to the exclusion of
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| that happen to you remain the same, but
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| | past and future thoughts.
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| your perceptions may vary. Change your
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| | In meditation, you focus on your
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| attitudes and perceptions to change the
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| | breathing, noticing your inhalation and
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| way you think about your experiences.
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| | exhalation, directing your mind to the
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| Learn to laugh at others as well as at
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| | present, thereby shutting off wandering
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| yourself. According to studies, children
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| | thoughts of the past and future. In
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| laugh 40 to 50 times a day, and that is
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| | meditation, you are essentially giving
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| why they are happy; adults, on the other
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| | your mind a period of relaxation. There
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| hand, laugh only 10 to 15 times at the
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| | is no other way as effective as
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| most. Do not take life too seriously,
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| | meditation in giving your mind total
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| develop and nurture a sense of humor,
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| | relaxation. Modern medicine is beginning
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| which is a component of mental
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| | to use meditation to cure mental
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| relaxation.
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| | disorders because it works at your
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| Enhance your physical capabilities to
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| | subconscious level. In Buddhist
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| cope with difficulties encountered. These
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| | meditation, you experience nirvana only
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| capabilities include physical fitness,
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| | through meditation, in which you empty
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| good nutrition, and deep sleep without
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| | your mind of impure thoughts to arrive at
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| sleeping aids.
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| | a mental state of enlightenment.
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| Change the environment that gives you
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| | Meditation, in conjunction with
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| stress. If your job gives you stress,
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| | self-effort in changing attitudes and
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| change the job or take a vacation to
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| | lifestyle, provides the best mental
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| de-stress yourself, although this may be
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| | relaxation for your mental health.
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