Lifestyle Choices

So in personal terms, for the sake of mental and physical health and beauty it is important that every woman develop an awareness of her own personal relationship to stress and come to terms with it. This is all part of what is known as “stress management.” There are many different methods of going about it. If you are familiar with them you can choose which ones work best for you and you will be able to live with your own stress, an inevitable part of every human life, and enjoy it instead of allowing it to turn to distress and make you miserable, ill, and old before your time. (more…)

It is now common knowledge that uncontrolled stress can trigger a great many diseases and disorders—insomnia, gastric ulcers, high blood pressure, asthma, and migraine, to mention just a few. But for a long time these ailments were treated like something over which we had no control. It was assumed that one could only treat their symptoms with drugs, treat the stress that triggered them off with more drugs, and hope for the best. Now, thanks to research into altered states of consciousness and work done with biofeedback, studies have shown that every human being can exercise a high level of conscious control over his nervous system. (more…)

There is something transforming about climbing a rock, particularly if you have never climbed one before . . . or abseiling deep into a cave .. . or shooting rapids in a canoe … or winding your way laboriously up a great mountain. It is something about being in the air, about coming close to the earth again—even more important, about the totality of the challenges you face that makes you realize that the limits you unconsciously place on yourself have no meaning. These physical activities tell you that you can do anything if you need to. The top of a mountain with the wind blowing is one of the few places in the world where one can discover that. (more…)