Category Archive

The following is a list of all entries from the Proactive Stress Management category.

Demystifying Healthy Relationships

 
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Human beings are social animals; so much so, that one of the worst things that society can do to a person is to separate them from their friends and family. For example: break the law, go to jail. The mere threat of this type of punishment is enough to keep most people inside the social […]


How to Have Difficult Conversations

 
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This is the final part of a three-part series on communication, the focus of which is using effective communication skills to reduce the stress in our lives. Previously I described the communication model, and how it’s a wonder we communicate at all. I detailed a communication process that I refer to as “mirroring.” Which is […]


The Platinum Rule

 
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As a method of reducing stress, with a larger goal of liberating ourselves from the either/or stressed based scarcity model of the universe, last month we began a series of podcasts dedicated to building healthier relationships through effective communication skills.
If you have ever been in an unhealthy relationship (and quite frankly who hasn’t?) then you […]


When Your Feet Hurt, Everything Hurts

 
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Since August of 2007, we have produced nine pod casts. The unifying theme in these pod casts is that world peace can become a reality when enough people find peace within their own heart. To that end, these pod casts have addressed subjects as raising our low self esteem, adopting healthier behaviors and attitudes, and […]


A Recipe for Personal Peace

 
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For 7 ½ years I taught drug- and behaviorally-addicted parolees in California life skills. It was a 120-hour course that consisted of four components: one was the disease concept of addiction; there was recovery, or behavior modification; there was building healthy relationships with healthy people; and stress and anger management. That’s the component that I […]