Lead life of your dream

>>List your frustrations: Summarize all the frustration you have in your life. Even if it is smallest of the frustrations write it down. This is a kind of vending out.

>>List your positives: In each frustration you have summarized, find a positive aspect. This will help you to understand that there is solution for each problems and stressful situations.

>>Maintain positiveness: Whatever you involved in, just do it with passion and grace. You will sense that positiveness is spread through you and your work.

>>Visualize the better life: Always visualize what you want in your life. Never involve something, which you don’t like. List all you like and all visualize how you would feel when you those.

>>Think, feel and act: Be sure that your thinking, feeling and acting are focusing towards your goal.

Benefits of Optimism

>>Superior Health: A study reveals that being optimistic is helps significantly in health and those who are pessimistic are more prone to infectious disease, poor health and earlier mortality.

>>Greater Achievement: An optimistic person tends to have positive synergy and they achieve what they want. A pessimistic person releases negative synergy and they often fails.

>>Less Stress: Optimists also tend to experience less stress than pessimists or realists. Because they believe in themselves and their abilities, they expect good things to happen. They see negative events as minor setbacks to be easily overcome, and view positive events as evidence of further good things to come. Believing in themselves, they also take more risks and create more positive events in their lives.

>>Persistence: Optimists does not give easily to achieve greater heights and pessimistic often lose from winning positions.

Identify your talent

Feeling inferior is a state of mind in which you declaring yourself as victim. Never victimize yourself. In this world every single individual is posses a skill/talent. Discover that and try to excel by focusing on that. Put all your energy in to it. Also praise yourself and give credit for all your success. When you start respecting yourself then every other person will automatically respect you.

Manage stress during recession

Smart and simple ways to handle stress at the time of recession.

1)Try to accept that there is a stress and change your life style to overcome. Understand that nobody other than you can help yourself.

2)During challenging times do talk to your family, friends, health professional and colleagues. This is a great support mechanism.

3)Don’t do too many things at a time and also breakdown all your current activities.

4)Live in present with out worrying about the future. Believe that everything will be better soon attitude.

5)Strictly say no to drugs and alcohol.

6)Do exercise and yoga regularly. Walk briskly everyday.

7)Cut short taking caffeine content drinks and food.

Facts of Insomnia

Insomnia, which is Latin for "no sleep," is the inability to fall asleep or remain asleep. Insomnia is also used to describe the condition of waking up not feeling restored or refreshed. According to Dr. Mark Mahowald, Professor of Neurology at the University of Minnesota Medical School and Director of the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center at Hennepin County Medical Center, insomnia refers to the inability to get the amount of sleep you as an individual need to wake up feeling rested.

Insomnia is the most common sleep complaint among Americans. It can be either acute, lasting one to several nights, or chronic, even lasting months to years. When insomnia persists for longer than a month, it is considered chronic. According to the National Center for Sleep Disorders Research at the National Institutes of Health, about 30-40% of adults say they have some symptoms of insomnia within a given year, and about 10-15 percent of adults say they have chronic insomnia. Sleep specialist Dr. William Dement, Director of the Sleep Disorders Clinic and Laboratory at the Stanford University School of Medicine, explains that people who have trouble sleeping every night without exception for months or years are fairly rare. More often, people experience chronic-intermittent insomnia, which means difficulty sleeping for a few nights, followed by a few nights of adequate sleep before the problem returns.

Insomnia can be a disorder in its own right, but often it is a symptom of some other disease or condition. Half of all those who have experienced insomnia blame the problem on stress and worry. In the case of stress-induced insomnia, the degree to which sleep is disturbed depends on the severity and duration of the stressful situation. Sometimes this may be a disturbing occurrence like loss of a loved one, loss of a job, marital or relationship discord or a tragic occurrence. Anticipation of such things as weddings, vacations, or holidays can also disturb sleep and make it difficult to fall asleep or remain asleep. Insomnia can also occur with jet lag, shift work and other major schedule changes.

Romantic life makes happier than any other means

A romantic relationship tends to make a more person happy when compared to those people who are just involved in a casual association, according to a new study.// The Cornell University’s Claire Kamp Dush, along with other researchers studied data which was inclusive telephonic interviews with 691 people between 1992 and 1997.

They assessed the well being of the people with measures of self-esteem, life satisfaction, general happiness and distress symptoms. romantic relationships also had a positive effect on sexuality, physical and mental health. People who cohabit are next on the scale of happiness, followed by those in steady relationships and then those in casual relationships. Un-partnered people report the lowest levels of well being, the study noted.

Even those in relatively unhappy marriages appear to benefit from being married, perhaps because they benefit from marriage's stability, commitment and social status, Dush said.

"Being married is associated with higher self-esteem, greater life satisfaction, greater happiness and less distress, whereas people who are not in stable romantic relationships tend to report lower self-esteem, less life satisfaction, less happiness and more distress," she explained.

The bottom line, say the Cornell researchers, is that having a romantic relationship makes both men and women happier, and the stronger the relationship's commitment, the greater the happiness and sense of well-being of the partners.

Tackle stress by simple methods

Stressful situations can be handled in some ways where it does not create more damage. Change your body’s system to a state of equilibrium. That is nothing but fight or flight the stress. This will really calms your body and mind. Check below some more ways to tackle stress.

>>Take a walk: Taking a walk when stressed provides the bonus of getting you out of the stressful situation and providing some perspective so you can return in a new frame of mind.

>>Take a breath: You can feel better right away by practicing breathing exercises. Getting more oxygen into your body and releasing physical tension are two ways that breathing exercises can benefit you, and you can do them anytime or anywhere, even if your demanding situation is not allowing you to try other means.

>>Take a mental break: If you can steal away a few minutes of peace, visualizations and guided imagery are a wonderful way to restore peace of mind. They're easy to do, and can relax you physically as well as mentally.

>>Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR): Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) is a technique where you tense and release all of your muscle groups, leaving your body feel more relaxed afterward. PMR is one of my favorite techniques, as it can be done by just about anyone, and with practice you can fully release virtually all the tension you're feeling in your body in a matter of seconds.

Reduce Tension with Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Overall body tension can be reduced by great technique called Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR). By doing this you will feel less stress and will get increased mental and physical health. Check below to get started.

1. Find a quiet place, sit or lie down and make yourself comfortable.
2. Begin by tensing all the muscles in your face. Make a tight grimace, close your eyes as tightly as possible, clench your teeth, even move your ears up if you can. Hold this for the count of eight as you inhale.
3. Now exhale and relax completely. Let your face go completely lax, as though you were sleeping. Feel the tension seep from your facial muscles, and enjoy the feeling.
4. Next, completely tense your neck and shoulders, again inhaling and counting to eight. Then exhale and relax.
5. Continue down your body, repeating the procedure with the following muscle groups:
• chest
• abdomen
• entire right arm
• right forearm and hand (making a fist)
• right hand
• entire left arm
• left forearm and hand (again, making a fist)
• left hand
• buttocks
• entire right leg
• lower right leg and foot
• right foot
• entire left leg
• lower left leg and foot
• left foot
6. for the shortened version, which includes just four main muscle groups:
• face
• neck, shoulders and arms
• abdomen and chest
• buttocks, legs and feet

Music soothens women during pregnancy

According to new study, listening to good music can help pregnant women to get relieved from psychological stress. The pregnant women varies from 18 to 34 weeks expected to have uncomplicated vaginal deliveries after listening to good music.

All but five of the 241 women, who were recruited from the antenatal clinic at a medical centre in southern Taiwan, completed the pre and post-test assessments. The demographic profiles of the two groups were very similar when it came to factors like education, occupation, social class and happiness with their marriage.

Half of the women were pregnant for the first time and just over half of the pregnancies were planned. The number of women in their second and third trimesters was more or less equal. Four pre-recorded 30-minute music CDs were created for the study and each featured music that mimicked the human heart rate, with between 60 and 80 beats per minute.

The lullaby CD included songs like Brahms'' Lullaby and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and composers like Beethoven and Debussy were included on the classic CD. The nature sounds included Tropical Mystery and Friendly Natives and the crystals'' CD comprised Chinese children’s rhymes and songs, like Little Honey-Bee and Jasmine.

Women taking part in the music group were given copies of the CDs and asked to listen to them for 30 minutes a day for two weeks. They then completed a diary saying which CD they had listened to and what they were doing at the time. Most of them listened to the music while they were resting, at bedtime or performing chores. The control group did not listen to the CDs.

Participants in both groups were asked to complete three well-established scales, which are used to measure stress, anxiety and depression, before and after the music intervention.

The results showed that, before they took part in the study, women in the music group scored 17.44 on the Perceived Stress Scale, which ranges from zero to 30. After the intervention their stress levels had dropped by an average of 2.15, which is statistically significant.

Women in the control group reported a much smaller fall of 0.92. Anxiety was measured by the State Scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, which ranges from 20 to 80. It fell by 2.13 from 37.92 in the music group and rose by 0.71 in the control group.

Depression was measured by the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression scale, which ranges from zero to 30. The music group reported an average level of 12.11 before the intervention and a reduction of 1.84 at the end of the two-week period. The score was almost constant in the control group, falling by an insignificant 0.03.

Few Tips for having peace of mind

People are happy to forget their problems, troubles and worries and they like to have moments of inner calmness and freedom from obsessing thoughts. Check below few tips to have peace of mind.

>>Don’t spend too much time in reading newspapers.
>>Reduce watching news on Televisions.
>>Avoid indulging in negative conversations with negative people.
>>Learn to forgive and forgot. Avoid having grudges. Grudge only hurts you and disturbs sleep.
>>Win over you jealous on others. It only shows that you have low-esteem and it disturbs inner peace.
>>Accept everything as it is. Don’t try to change others rather change yourself.
>>Increase your patent and tolerance levels.
>>Have detached attachment and don’t take everything persona.
>>Practice concentration exercises and meditation.