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Depression
Depression can make you feel completely alone...about 19 million American adults are coping with depression...about 80% of people who get treatment for depression say that it has helped them.
- Depression Recovery
Depression can make you feel powerless. But there are many things you can do for yourself to improve your mood, help your recovery, and stay healthy.
- A Depression Recovery Lifestyle
Depression can make you feel powerless. But there are many things you can do for yourself to improve your mood, help your recovery, and stay healthy.
- Healing Friendships
Depression can make you feel powerless. But there are many things you can do for yourself to improve your mood, help your recovery, and stay healthy.
Stress in Children
In American homes an average child receives ten negative statements for every positive. Your stress affects your children more than you realize.
Alternative Therapies
An Exploration of Alternative Therapies that can be used for Stress Management - Therapy definitions, how each therapy works, best ways to find practitioners, and saftey & warnings.
- Acupuncture: Pathways for Relief
Acupuncture is a traditional energy medicine where you are helping the body heal itself and restoring it to balance along meridian pathways relieving pain.
- Aromatherapy: Making Sense of Healing
Aromatherapy, the practice of using essential oils -- concentrated plant essences -- to relieve stress, invigorate, heal, and promote wellness is an ancient one.
- Art Therapy
Art therapy is the therapeutic use of art making, within a professional relationship, by people who experience illness, trauma, or challenges in living, and by people who seek personal development.
- Ayurveda
Ayurveda is all about the importance of balance in nature.
- Biofeedback
Biofeedback is a mind-body communication technique, which for the first time allows man to communicate with his inner self.
- Biofeedback: Best Uses
Biofeedback is a mind-body communication technique, which for the first time allows man to communicate with his inner self.
- Bodywork: Hands-On Healing
Massage and other forms of bodywork can bring relief from everyday stress, aches and pains, and many other ailments.
- Massage
Massage is a hands-on systematic manipulation of muscles and soft tissue through rubbing, kneading, and pressing.
- Movement Re-education
Movement re-education or somatic education methods involve conscious retraining of the body away from stress-formed patterns of posture and movement and toward free-moving, graceful, natural being in the world.
- Asian Bodywork Systems
Asian bodywork systems are traditional energy therapies where you are helping the body heal itself and restoring it to balance along meridian pathways relieving pain. Among the most commone therapies is acupressure, shiatsu, tuina, tai chi, and qigong.
- Energy Therapies
Energy therapies - are based on the principle that a vital energy runs through and around the body. Members of this family include Therapeutic Touch, polarity, Craniosacral, and reflexology.
- EFT TFT
The Emotional Freedom Technique EFT simply put, is a method that is capable of relieving (if not eliminating) emotional turmoil.
- Guided Imagery
Guided imagery based on the concept that your body and mind are connected, is a program of directed thoughts and suggestions that guide your imagination toward a relaxed, focused state.
- Humor Therapy
As laughter appears to change brain chemistry and may boost the immune system, humor therapy uses the power of smiles and laughter to aid healing.
- Hypnosis or Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis, a state of focused concentration during which a person becomes less aware of his or her surroundings, to treat physical or psychological conditions.
- Meditation
Meditation can be defined as focused or deep reflection. It may incorporate observation and control of the breath, imagery, mantras, and sitting postures.
- Music Therapy
Music therapy has been found to help people express themselves, find new memories, and calm the body and mind through its rhythm, order, and predictability.
- Brainwave Entrainment
Studies have shown that vibrations from rhythmic sounds have a profound effect on brainwave activity, thus a new science has emerged called brainwave entrainment.
- Nutrition
The nutrition we take in and eating well is not an "alternative" route to wellness but an integral part of everyone's picture of good health.
- NLP
Neuro-Linguistic Programming NLP, powerful techniques for rapid behavioral modification, effecting patterns for phobias, trauma, long-term habits, old traumatic reactions to memories, etc.
Stress Relief Resources
This stress relief resources page will provide links for alternative stress management tools like biofeedback, brainwave entrainment, EFT and acupressure, etc.
- Biofeedback at Your Fingertips
Biofeedback at your fingertips is a unique adventure gaming series. Learn to increase relaxation, reduce stress and anxiety, restore balance and vitality, and improve physical & mental wellbeing.
- Children Meditations, Sleep Enhancement, Affirmations
Focusing the mind · Increasing concentration · Helping resolve issues that can cause nightmares, hyperactivity, loss, innerconnectedness, healthy sense of self · Brings about a sense of wholeness.
- Brainwave Entrainment
The gentle pulsating rhythms (binaural beat) of brain synchronization tapes act in a brainwave entrainment fashion, with computer generated frequencies, they are precise, consistent and can be targeted to induce highly specific and desired brain states.
- Massage Recliners
10 things you absolutely need to know before buying massage recliners...massage chairs have been proven to do wonders for back pain, neck pain, leg pain, stress, and/or tight muscles.
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