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Mindful Eating For Health

Mindful eating is a simple and effective tool for eating less and enjoying your food more. Mindful eating can help you to lose weight and manage stress at the same time. Learn more about the benefits and practice of mindful eating.

Mindful Eating Exercises - Strategies for Mindful Eating

Mindful eating exercises can aid in weight loss as well as stress relief. Try these proven mindful eating exercises for a few days, and see what kind of difference you notice with your relation with--and enjoyment of--food.

Pleasures In Life That Help Relieve Stress

The pleasures in life can bring real benefits, too! Learn more about adding pleasures to life and relieving stress in an enjoyable way, creating a pleasant life in the process.

Gratifications: What They Are, and How To Use Them

Including more gratifications in your life can lead to less stress, greater job satisfaction, and greater overall wellbeing. (Makes you want to learn more about gratifications are, doesn't it?) Learn about gratifications, and how to use them for stress relief.

Studying for Finals and Midterms - Stress Traps To Avoid

There are common practices that make finals even more stressful than they need to be. Learn what to avoid during finals season so you can do your best, feel your best, and avoid making finals more stressful than necessary.

Conflict in Relationships - The Toll of Relationship Conflict

Conflict in relationships is inevitable. However, poorly handled conflict can have a heavy negative impact on your relationships and other areas of your life. Learn more about the negative toll of conflict, and find resources for healthy conflict resolution.

Social Support - How to Create Truly Supportive Friendships

All social support is not created equal. Here is what you need to know to create mutually supportive, enduring, truly healthy friendships that will bring you support, opportunity for personal growth, and stress management benefits.

Great Jobs--What Makes A Job Great?

Great jobs--the ones you actually look forward to doing--aren't as difficult to find as one may think. Discover what key features are shared by all great jobs, see what Positive Psychology has to do with our understanding of great jobs, and learn how to find a great job of your own! (Hint: you may not even have to leave your current job!)

Creating Fun Jobs

Fun jobs aren’t just for the very lucky; believe it or not, most ‘regular jobs’ can be turned into ‘fun jobs’ with some tweaking. The following steps can help people take their current jobs and make them into fun jobs.

Mindfulness Meditation Techniques for Stress Relief

Mindfulness meditation techniques can greatly help with stress relief and relaxation, and are relatively simply to practice. Learn more about mindfulness meditation techniques, and find several that you can practice in your daily life.

Healthy Habits for Healthy Seniors

Certain lifestyle habits can go a long way in maintaining health and wellbeing. The following habits for healthy seniors can help keep stress at bay and enable seniors to maintain better health and wellbeing during retirement.

Stress Management for Senior Health

Senior health can be enhanced by maintaining a healthy level of stress. The following stress management techniques can be especially beneficial to senior health.

How To Simplify Life

If you’re looking for ideas on how to simplify life, you’re not alone—it’s a commonly searched topic! Here are some of the main ways you can cut down on the stress of a life that’s packed to the hilt while still maintaining the activities that are important to you.

Tips For Coping With Stress

Coping with stress is an important skill to master. Because of the physical, emotional and psychological toll that stress can take, learning the skills required for successful coping with stress can bring significant benefits to your health and peace of mind. Learn simple strategies for coping with stress.

The Link Between Happiness and Health

Happiness and health have been anecdotally linked for quite a while now, but relatively new research has been backing up what many people have instinctively assumed all along: that happiness and health are linked, and that one's level of happiness really can impact the level of one's health. Read more about happiness and health here.

Common Symptoms of Too Much Stress

Because so many of us face greater amounts of daily stress, we may not always know how much stress is too much. Here are some guidelines for recognizing your stress symptoms and knowing how much stress is too much stress.

Stress Relievers: 25 Ways to Reduce Stress

Here's a growing list of stress relievers you can use to reduce stress in your life and relieve tension in your mind and body right now! Each stress reliever on the list has links to resources to help you get started so you can feel less stress in your life fast.

How To Forgive

Forgiveness brings many benefits to those who do the forgiving. While everyone may have a unique perspective on how to forgive, the following strategies have been proven effective for a variety of people.

The Benefits of Forgiveness

Betrayal, aggression, and just plain insensitivity: there are a million ways that people can hurt us, and forgiveness isn’t always easy. Learn why forgiveness is important for your own wellbeing, and find forgiveness resources to get you started.

Top Five Changes for a Healthy Life

You can experience a happier, less stressful and more healthy life! Learn about the five most effective lifestyle features that prevent and reduce stress from entering your life, and help you better manage the tension and stress you already experience. Start living a more healthy life today!

The Stress Management and Health Benefits of Laughter

Research demonstrates the amazing health benefits of laughter. Laughing can relieve stress, increase pain tolerance and support the immune system, as well as serve several other healthy purposes. Learn more about the positive health benefits of laughter and how to use humor to relieve tension, manage stress and improve overall health and well-being.

How and Why to Use Positive Affirmations as a Stress Management Tool

Positive affirmations are a great way to develop positive self talk, a can-do attitude, relieve stress and more. Learn more about how positive affirmations can help reduce stress, find guidelines on how to create your own positive affirmations (tailored for your personal goals), and find creative ways to incorporate positive affirmations into your life.

Tips for Letting Go of Stress and Anger

Letting go of anger and stresses from the past is easier said than done. Learn proven techniques for letting go and living in a freer place.

Rumination – How Rumination Affects Your Life

Runimation—that feeling many people get when they just can’t stop thinking about something that upsets them—can cause stress and other negative consequences in your life. Learn more about rumination, the effects of rumination, and how to stop ruminating and be free.

Meditations for Stress Relief

Meditations come in all forms, and all bring special benefits for health and wellbeing. Learn more about the benefits of meditations and the types of meditations that you can use for stress relief and overall wellbeing.