It’s the tail end of Stress Awareness Month. And I like to ask, what kind of awareness do you want to bring to stress? How you approach and experience stress – as all bad; as sometimes positive, sometimes negative; as a challenge; as a problem to manage –makes a difference. Since it can be difficult to even figure … [Read more...]
Dealing with stress: A time management cushion
Does time feel more compressed to you? It does to me. My internal calendar is about four months behind what the actual calendar declares the date to be. For many of us, time management can become one more way to feel stressed out. Dealing with stress day to day, it’s hard to imagine a way to make things easier or … [Read more...]
Conscious Calm Promo Results: #1 in Self Help Free
Conscious Calm recently finished a free promotional run in the Kindle Direct Publishing program, and what a fun and wild ride it was! As a newbie to the KDP program, it was my first time using free promotional days to get the word out and offer the book for free globally. I had set what felt like a daunting, … [Read more...]
Stress, placebo, and the power of the mind
While some stress is needed for us to function at all, when we are feeling overwhelmed or exhausted from too much stress, chronic or toxic stress has built up, or even taken over. Understanding high, toxic stress calls for a change in where we focus our attention to deal with stress. Instead of focusing on the … [Read more...]