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Telegraph UK reports that a recent study done by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Simplyhealth shows that Stress has overtaken all other reasons for “sickness absence” in the UK Two-fifths of employers said stress-related sick days had gone up over the past year, the survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel [...]

What would happen if both our brains function at the same time?  It is something called relaxed alertness.  Like the ultimate yogi, you are on top of your game.  You can walk the tighrope from end to end without a problem.  This is the perfect balance we crave.  And if we can achieve it…wow!  Watch [...]

A very wise person said “You can be happy with or without a reason, but you can’t be unhappy without a reason”. The profoundness and depth in this statement is amazing.  It points to the core of the human condition.  The wish and need to escape from pain and unhappiness.  If we really look at [...]

Have you noticed, that when you are in a great mood, say you are in love or you just got a promotion or your kid got into a great college, you have so much generosity of spirit at that time. You don’t mind if someone cuts you off on the freeway or if you have a long wait at the bank or if your boss yells at you. But these same situations could make you really angry and ruin your day at any other time.

You read it right.  It is a prescription for depression.  Not a prescription to overcome depression.  Now why would we want to do something like this?  No one out there is looking to get depressed. In fact, we Americans are desperate to get out of depression.  We spend more than $86 billion dollars on anti-depressants.  [...]

Ok. We all have heard of meditation.  Some of us do it, some of us tried it and gave up.  We found it beneficial but it was kinda boring.  And we wonder how some people are so intense and passionate about it.  How do they have the discipline to do it.   The media is full [...]

Yes, you read it right.  This technique will pull your anxiety levels down in literally two seconds.  But you gotta promise yourself to give it your all.  Can you do that? I know, I know.  You are thinking, “this is not possible”.  Even my prescription pills can’t do it that fast.  Do you know why?  [...]