Monthly Archives: May 2007
Enthusiasm and Patience
I won’t be writing for a few more days, because I’m making major revisions to the site. I’m also trying to learn about writing WordPress themes so I can make the style of this blog compatible with the rest of … Continue reading
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An Example of the Stress Trap?
Last Monday Ronni Bennet at Time Goes By described a nightmare trip home on an airline. The whole tone of her post was just the opposite of yesterday’s post here. It was primarily complaining about the airlines. I suppose I … Continue reading
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The Stress Trap Redefined
In the last post I said the Stress Trap was “when we’re in a new and/or somewhat scary situation and our minds shut down. Our energy is diverted to our muscles so we can either fight or run. That’s not … Continue reading
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The Stress Trap
A friend of mine, who hasn’t had much experience with computers, has been learning some software for editing and sending photos via e-mail. She managed to send a whole slide show last night, and we were both celebrating her success. … Continue reading
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Still Rethinking
I did a little on the Step Out of the Stress Trap pamphlet today, but I’ve also spent a lot of time thinking about the first page of my site. It doesn’t really express what the site is about… yet. … Continue reading
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Optimizing Stress
Yesterday Puzzled commented: “I’m confused. What does this have to do with ‘optimizing stress’? So far this seems very nebulous.” Thanks for the feedback, Puzzled. I looked at the whole site again and realize I don’t have enough information about … Continue reading
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The Joys of the Journey
I’ve just made some more changes to Transforming Stress. It’s at the fun stage now, where I have something on the web and I keep thinking of ways to fine tune it. I like the fact that the site is … Continue reading
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Facilitating Change
Ellen at ellenLiving is writing a series of posts on “4 Questions to Facilitate Change.” The questions are: Where am I in my life right now? Where do I most want to be in my life? What within me is … Continue reading
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The Art of Listening to Yourself
Yea, Cyn! In her final comment yesterday Cyn wrote: “I don’t want to define my selfworth by the WORK I get done. I just want to BE & enjoy just being me.” That’s why I’m doing an interactive blog rather … Continue reading
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The Quality of Our Lives
I’m adding another item to the traits of stress-hardy people: They understand that the quality of our lives depends on how we focus our energy and our attention. Cyn commented on yesterday’s post, where I asked if the need to … Continue reading
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