Searching For Happiness In a Stress Filled World?

Searching for happiness? The key to happiness is not far away. It’s as close as your heart.

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First, my apologies. This post got published sooner than it should have. If you are one who was interested in the E-Book “The Key to Happiness”, it is available Now!

Well, the new e-book is finally available. “The Key To Happiness” has been something I was compelled to write. I’ve been in customer service for over 10 years because I enjoy helping people. And I hope that “The Key To Happiness” can make a positive difference in the lives of those who invest in it.

Effects of stress from day to day living sometimes makes it difficult for us to find the happiness that we seek. Happiness seems to elude us. Yet, it’s not far away. It’s as close as your heart.

The “Key To Happiness” shows you how to find happiness and how to keep it. When it boils down to it, we find that the elusive happiness is not that hard to locate. Yet, it is something that probably everybody on the planet is searching for.

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To get your copy of “The Key To Happiness”, find happiness and keep it in your life, go to Your Key To Happiness

Have a great week.

Karen

The January 12th earthquake in Haiti has been quite devastating. Only 135 have been pulled out alive from the rubble over a 2 week period. Thankfully, a 17 year old girl was found today. She is alive and expected to live.  However, over 200,000+ lost their lives it is estimated.

The Haitian people are no strangers to effects of stress and poverty. They have been conquered by  a foreign power, been victims of corruption down through the centuries  and around 80% of the population live in poverty. Only about 50% of the population have regular jobs.

The devastation is great. Before it was estimated that there were approximately 400,000 orphans. Now that figure is around 1 million. And many of the people who have survived are dealing with amputation, sometimes multiple amputations. The long term effects of stress are beginning in earnest.

Government estimates say 5-10 years before Haiti can get rebuilt. With 80% of its population having always lived their lives in poverty, one wonders if Haiti will ever completely regain its footing. In fact, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

So far, food and medical aid was slow in coming due to who knows what. When a disaster occurs like this, time is of the essence. We don’t have the luxury of taking our time or wondering who is in charge when lives are at stake. My guess is that this is one of the more ineffective rescue attempts.

At any rate, the Haitian people have a long road of recovery ahead of them. The long term effects of stress are just really hitting their stride. It wouldn’t be surprising if many of the people wind up dealing with nightmares, panic attacks and post traumatic stress disorder. It will be interesting to see what the future holds and if the other countries of the world meet their goals of really helping the Haitian people.

In the meantime, we can add them to our prayers and make donations to reputable groups who will see to it that the Haitian people receive them.  

Karen C Groves

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One of the questions people ask “Are panic attacks dangerous?” The answer basically is “No!” I say basically because people generally are worried that panic attacks can diminish their health by causing a heart attack or causing something else horrific to happen. On the short haul, the answer is no. The effects of stress caused by multiple panic attacks over time might be something that needs to be addressed.

The most pressing problem with a panic attack is that they scare the daylights out of you when they are happening. Even though I haven’t had one in a long time, I did suffer my first panic attack that started in a dream while I was asleep. I was with a group of people and someone with a gun walked in and shot me twice. As I was falling to the floor, I woke up. My heart rate was about 150 beats per minute, double the normal rate. That scared me right there and probably made things worse.

Generally, panic attacks last about 30 minutes and then they are gone. Not so, with my first one. It lasted 3 hours and me trying not to have screaming fits and running out the front door in fear the whole time. I was terrified I was going to have a heart attack, however, thankfully, it did not happen. And, apparently, it won’t from the usual circumstances connected with panic attacks. You just deal with the effects of stress brought on by the panic attack: the rapid heartbeat and the fear.

Are panic attacks dangerous? “NO!” However, if you were undergoing one and someone told you you’d be all right, you would probably be tempted to grab them by the throat, shake them until their head fell off and scream at them the entire time “I’m dying.” That really isn’t true, but, honey, it feels so real at the time. That is one of the things that makes a panic attack so scary.

If you ever suffer a panic attack, close your eyes and start deep breathing. It should back off in 30 minutes or less. The scariest part of these panic attacks is the rapid heartbeat that just won’t slow down. It will eventually. It just doesn’t seem like it will at the time.

I have found one thing that does seem to slow down the heartbeat, at least for me. I roll or massage my feet. A massage roller with grooves seems to work well in that regard especially on the left foot where the acupressure points for the heart are located. These points are a little to the outside of the foot behind the thick pad located behind the toes. I can use a roller, tennis ball or golf ball if the acupressure points are not too sore. For me, the heartbeat normalizes in a few minutes.

I haven’t had a panic attack in several years. That doesn’t mean I’ll never have another, however, knowing that I have something to slowdown the rapid heartbeat means that I am not near as fearful of having another in the future. For, in my case, the rapid heartbeat is the scariest part of a panic attack and the fact that my first one lasted 3 hours instead of just 30 minutes scared me even more when I learned of normal duration. Yet, I’m still here.

So, are panic attacks dangerous? No, they just seem dangerous. As with most things, our reaction to what happens to us and the way we handle the effects of stress are the most important things. If we don’t contribute more to the frightening effects of a panic attack, we can endure them better. Knowing that they are of short duration also helps that endurance.

I’ll be covering panic attacks more in depth in the Busting Stress Newsletter. For FREE sign up click NEWSLETTER .

If you are interested, there is a program Panic Away that guarantees relief from panic attacks.

Have a great day

Karen C Groves

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Well, we are offering some new stress management programs and ebooks that look at anxiety, stress and depression from different angles. There is also a program to deal with Panic Attacks and how to alleviate the effects of stress that these cause. This gives you some variety in stress busters to choose from.

Also we now have a newsletter that will be published twice a month. This will be adding to the information found on this website and will include current research where applicable. As always, we will be making stress busters for your stress management program available. You can sign up below.

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Karen C Groves

We finally got BustingStress.com up and running. There will be a press release probably next week letting the world know that there are Stress Busters for Stress Management.

Check the site about once a month. We will be adding more information, MP3’s, free reports and additional items of interest. And we hope to include stress busters that may not be found anywhere else except this site.

May you find what helps to alleviate the effects of stress in your life that you can incorporate in your own personal stress management program.

Have a great week.

K C Groves

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When my second husband and I married, we both had a child by previous marriages.  One girl was 8 and the other was 12.

After school started, we noticed that both girls seemed more stressed, tending to complain more and just out of sorts.  They were going to bed between 9:00 and 10:00 PM and getting up at 7:00 AM to get ready for school so they were getting, what we thought, was adequate sleep.  However, we found out that was not the case.  Lack of  sleep due to TV, homework or whatever the last hour was contributing to their day to day stress levels.

Both of the girls were fairly active, not couch potatoes.  So it was natural for them to be tired at the end of the school day. But they were cranky.

My husband and I finally decided that they were cranky because they were not getting enough sleep.  So we had them start going to bed an hour earlier and, boy, what a difference.  We had two girls who would wake up in a much better mood than formerly simply because of one hour’s more sleep.

Recently I read an article that referred to a study of 600 New Zealand 7-year-olds.  This study was written up in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.  The study concluded that when children were active they would fall asleep faster and sleep longer than children who didn’t get as much exercise.

The findings of the study were interesting.  The researchers had the children wear monitors to measure their activity levels each minute of the day.  They also had the parents fill out questionnaires regarding their children’s sleeping habits.

What they found was it took an average of 26 minutes for a child to fall asleep. However, for every hour of inactivity, it took the child an additional 3 minutes longer.  The reverse was also true.  If the child was active, it took less time for him to fall asleep.

As a parent, wouldn’t you love for your child to fall asleep quickly and stay asleep all night?  Would that help your sleep pattern and your stress management?  You bet it would!

And what does it do for your child and his or her stress levels?  Children who have poor sleep habits can have behavioral problems, low grades in school and the possibility of becoming overweight.

So children who are active will be more fit, their cardiovascular health and their weight should be better.  And they should have healthy sleep habits as well.

So if you are looking to minimize the effects of stress in your children as well as yourself, one of the best stress busters is getting enough sleep.  And when your children sleep soundly and are healthy, you parents are less stressed as well.

Sleep tight and reduce the effects of stress!

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For those of you who are looking for more stress relief, there are at least 400 ways to do that.   Some of those ways I’ve listed and gone into detail in the following articles.

Stress Busters – Parts 1-4 of 8

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400 ways to beat stress

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BustingStress.com will be up in the next week or so.  Please look for that.  I will be posting announcements indicating when.

There will be Ebooks, MP3’s, Free reports and Tabletop Fountains.  Additional products and Free information will be added in the next month or so.

This site is to benefit you.  If there are any particular subjects that you would like more information, please let me know.  I will do my utmost to provide the best information that I can.  And your comments are appreciated.

Have a great day.

Karen

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