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Our lives seem to become increasingly stressful. We work harder than ever and our personal lives have become more complex. Family and community support systems are often not so readily available. So, stress is a major factor in most people’s lives. Some stress may be beneficial: many people need a certain level of stress to perform at their best. It is when stress becomes excessive and unmanageable, with no apparent resolution, that problems start to arise. This is why it is very important to be able to recognize stress and know how to manage it.

It is usually possible to recognize when levels of stress become unmanageably. high. Stress tends to manifest itself in either psychological or physical symptoms, but sometimes as both. Read the rest of this entry »

Keeping our lives happy and harmonious can very often be difficult and studies have shown that positive thinking can help us to deal more effectively with everyday stress as well as having a beneficial effect on our emotional health. Research has also demonstrated that a person’s emotional well being plays an important part in his or her physical health.

It can be enormously beneficial, psychologically and physically, to make an effort to integrate positive thinking into every aspect of your life. You will reap the health rewards if you fallow a few basic guidelines:

• Consider that it is often much easier to be negative and critical so make an effort to be positive and encouraging to yourself and to others.
• Keep crises in perspective and if possible try to see them simply as problems that you can solve.
• Focus on the good things in your life.
• When faced with a situation that you find stressful, try calming strategies such as raking deep breaths or visualizing tranquil scenes or images.

Healthy habits are best started in childhood because most bad habits are picked up then, too. If you have children, then one of the most effective ways to influence them is to lead by example – it won’t do any harm to have a few hours in front of the television if it is balanced by something more active earlier or later in the day. But bad habits can soon become part of your child’s normal life and changing these habits will become much more difficult later on.

Education on health-damaging habits, such as smoking, can also begin at a very early age and probably has the best effect when your children can see plainly that you yourself, for example, don’t smoke. Read the rest of this entry »

A HEALTH LIFESTYLE

Your health is something that you can influence – for better or for worse – through the lifestyle choices you make every day. People today are generally^, much better in formed than their parents’ generation and the expectations of what medicine can do is also higher. It is possible to make small changes to the way you live which will lead to a healthier and longer life. Simple, realistic changes are by far the best – drastic measures usually prove difficult to sustain and tend to be followed for only a short time Healthy choices are those that you make for life.

In the 21st century more people are living for longer – in fact, most of the world’s population is living 20 years longer than their parents. What’s the secret? Today, we have access to better food, sanitation and health care services. Read the rest of this entry »