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Stress and Emotions
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Stress and Emotions
Use your mind to be happy, focus in on peak performance at your job, feel more satisfaction in your relationships, feel healthy and even stay young! Make the choice today. Learn a few simple steps to use your head, get rid of the stress in the body and achieve more than you ever imagined before. Let's begin at the beginning...
Stress and Emotions
You are probably aware that stress in your body is not a good thing. If you have yet to experience the negative effects of stress, you are either incredibly unique or in
denial. Did you know that stress, our emotional response to life's events, can keep you from getting anywhere near your peak performance-whether you are seeking peak performance in sports, business, your personal life, your health or any other aspect of you life? See how stress and emotions are so closely related?
Stress in your body can be diminished by including a few simple Stress Busting practices into your day. Meditation, prayer, breathing, yoga, creative imagery and other practices can help you reduce the impact of stress on your body AND help you find happiness and joy in many areas of your life. Hey, who doesn't want that?
Stress and Emotions: StressBusters Can Save Your Life!
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Peak Performance and Stress?
Improve Performance and life satisfaction without spending more time in the gym, in couple's therapy, at the driving range or on the court? Yes!!!!
Remember, optimal holistic lifestyle is about the body, mind and soul. Never leave your mind behind!
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Use your HEAD to:
Lower Your Sports Performance
Do more at work without working harder
Ignore Pesky Distractions
Be Your Own Super-Coach
Have More Fun!!!
Sound too good to be true? NO way! You can achieve this with a few easy steps, and some practice. Good results take some work, and this is true. This work is not only fun, it has the potential to benefit you in many, many ways.
The ability to regulate your emotions and manage stress will help you to reach the next level
Stress and Emotions
Looking for that competitive edge? Those who focus on their emotional well-being as well as their physical training are on their way to peak performance. If you leave out the emotional training, you will stop short and you will most certainly be passed up.
How about a good 'sports' example of using imagery and peak performance? You can substitute the golf example with your own example.
I spend a good bit of time at the driving range. I'm very good at focusing on my own 'game' but I can't help but observe some of the happenings around me.
I hear a lot of:
I can't believe I hit so bad
I'm so stupid
I'm so lame
I'm so _____ (go ahead and fill in the negative description of your choice)
Guess what happens when the negativity begins to spread like a fungus? The focus is gone and the outcome is farther and farther away from what the golfer wants to see. It's a vicious circle downward.
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Stress and Emotions
A few key concepts to consider:
You get more of what you focus on.
If you focus on negativity-especially with regard to yourself-you will get more negativity. Likewise, if you focus on the positive, you will experience more good things. Okay, so you swung and the ball cut directly in front of the poor guy next to you barely missing him. The ball went in the air didn't it? At one time in my life, that would have most certainly been an improvement!
The negative vs the positive?
You may have hit a 'bad' ball, but you are not a bad golfer and you are not stupid...
Maybe this is a good time to mention humor. Humor is one of our spiritual needs. It is an essential part of our lives. NO need to leave your sense of humor at home when you play sports. You'll have more fun when you smile and you will also play better. A smile helps your body to relax and when you are relaxed you will achieve far more than when you are stressed.
Stress and Emotions: Are you Happy?
"The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting." -- Theodor Reik
Happiness is a choice. Having joy in your life is your right, and there is one person who can guarantee this happiness for you: YOU! Decide to have a joyful day and accept no less. I sometimes like to imagine that I've hired myself a personal manager. If that personal manager designed my day and instructed me to have a day full of negative, sad thoughts, I certainly would fire that person. Yet, I do this to myself. Many of us do. Look for the joy and grab it. This is a choice. Got a problem? Rejoice in the fact that you have the power to make a difference for yourself.
"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive..." -- Eleonora Duse
Stress and Emotions:
GRATITUDE?
Gratitude is contagious. The more you express gratitude the more you will experience it. Look for even the simplist pleasures and be grateful.
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AWARENESS AND APPRECIATION
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A heightenned awareness of your surroundings leads naturally to appreciation and gratitude.
When I get ready to hit the ball or begin a game of tennis or start on my afternoon walk, I take a good look around and take it all in. This doesn't have to take very long at all, either. I take in all the senses: aromas, feel (breeze against my face, for instance), sounds, sights and even tastes such as water. I enjoy my entire surroundings and break a smile. Remember, the simple of act of smiling relaxes your muscles and brings about all kinds of positive effects on your body, mind and soul.
In times of stress, I like to think about my favorite places and remember the feeling. I always have to come back to reality (that is the tough part!) but my body and mind get a little break. Daydreaming is a good thing for your body!
CREATIVE VISUALIZATION/IMAGERY FOR SUCCESS
Stress and Emotions: Where is YOUR Happy Place?
One of my favorite places in the world is in Maui. Sometimes before I hit the ball, I imagine myself surrounded by rich, lush green; beautiful, flowery aromas; the tender brush of the tradewinds; the taste of salt on my lips and the sound of the ocean. This, of course, brings a big smile on my face. I realized that when I imagined this scene, and I mean really imagine it as if I am right there, I hit the ball with more distance and accuracy than ever. I take trips to Maui regularly.
This is just one example of the wonderous benefits of creative imagery/visualization.
Stress and Emotions: Humor, Joy, Happiness and all things lovely!
So, do humor, joy, happiness, gratitude and use of imagination might sound a bit 'soft' to you? How about some scientific research to help you reach that peak performance?
HeartMath's research has shown that when you experience a positive emotion, your heart rhythms immediately change to a more regular (coherant pattern). Negative thoughts and feelings make the rhythm irregular and jagged. Thoughts and emotions impact the heart's rhythms. This rhythm-whether it be steady and smooth or erratic-directly impacts performance. So, let's go back to the people at the driving range who beat themselves up for the way they play. Guess what kind of heart pattern they have? If you answered erratic, you are correct! This erratic (incoherent) pattern makes it more difficult for the brain to function, diminishes your visual field, slows down your reaction time and takes your usual decision making skills down a notch. Who needs that?
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The ZONE
Being in the zone, a positive mental and emotional state (dare I say joyful state!) creates a nice smooth, wave-like, regular (coherent) pattern. It is in this state that your brain functions most effectively, you have a clearer mental focus and physical coordination is much improved. Obviously, this is the state you want if you seek peak performance in sports, work or your home life.
The (emWave PC) software gives the user the ability to identify when their heart is racing and do something about about it. It even gives feedback for the more discreet tiny changes in the heart rhythm. You can learn techniques to manage your response while under pressure and in tense situations so you can use those situations to their best advantage, physically and in other important aspects of life.
The emWave PC Stress Relief System with Patented Heart Rhythm Monitor will help you transform stress and anxiety into vibrant energy. Much more than a heart monitor this revolutionary technology guides you on how to achieve higher, more creative energy levels, less stress, and optimal health.
The EmWave PC is a training system for those of us who want to master their emotions and reach that wonderous state of peak performance. I encourage you to learn more from the HeartMath website. There is some powerful research and specific tools to help you reach experience that sense of being in the zone.
Wouldn't it be great to experience that 'in the zone' feeling more often-at work, at home or when playing?
BENEFITS OF THE EmWave SYSTEM
Advanced technology to reduce the negative effects of stress
Greater health
More Energy
Improved emotional and mental clarity
EM stands for ‘empowerment’:Empowered to change your emotional state
WHY USE THE EmWave?
Practicing enhances sense of well-being as you learn to create more ‘heart rhythm coherence’
A highly efficient physiological state in which the nervous system, cardiovascular, hormonal and immune systems are working efficiently and harmoniously
More coherence=Less Stress
HOW IT WORKS
EmWave measures your coherence level by analyzing the subtle beat to beat changes in the time intervals between heartbeats- Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
Beat to beat changes create heart rhythm
Heart Rhythms and Why You Should Care
“Negative” emotions, such as frustration, cause chaotic heart rhythms - part of a physically harmful chain reaction leading to inhibition of the cortex of the brain: Bad Thing
Positive emotion, such as appreciation, creates smooth coherent heart rhythms and a beneficial chain reaction resulting in cortical facilitation: Good Thing
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When you experience stressful emotions such as tension, anxiety, irritation, or anger, your heart rhythm pattern becomes irregular and incoherent, which negatively affects health, brain function, performance and your sense of well-being. In other words, when you get stressed out, you just can't focus and your brain doesn't function as well.
Remember the last time you panicked and couldn't think straight or froze when taking a test of some sort. You just couldn't remember anything!
So you want to be more coherent? What does That Really Mean?
Coherence – a state of synchronization between the heart, brain and nervous system. They're all working together in perfect coordination. Sustained coherence increases zone capacity, so the more you experience this coherent state, the more often you are in the Zone and that is something you really want.
The Institute of HeartMath developed a technique to help you spend more time in the zone.
The technique is called Quick Coherence®
How do you feel when you are in the Zone-a state of coherence?
A calm, dynamic internal state on demand (easy access, whenever you want)
Confidence vs. feelings of fear, anxiety, worry –stress
Maximum concentration, focus and mental clarity even under pressure
These are definitely qualities that help you become more success in your work and studies.
Improved motor coordination and reaction time speeds; reduced muscle tremors
Perceptual clarity for better decision making
The Quick Coherence Technique is easy to use, fits into any training schedule, and gives you immediate feedback and progress results. We all like that immediate feedback, so we don't waste our time. The benefits of this technique will be evident in many other aspects of your life.
Are you ready to be your best personally and professionally? Whether you are a week-end warrior or professional athlete, there is always room for improvement. If you haven't engaged your mental edge yet, today could be your day.
If not today, then when?
Don’t wait for that serious illness to wake you up when it is so simple to start taking care of yourself or a loved one today! Begin to live an optimal holistic lifestyle today!
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