Healthy Travel Expecting to travel before your baby is due? Follow these guidelines. * Check with your physician to make sure travel is permissible. Travel during pregnancy is least risky during the fourth to sixth months. * If you’re planning to travel by airplane or train, ask for an aisle seat so you can get […]
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Substance Use & Abuse Avoid getting hooked on medicines. Prescribed drugs provide relief for people with chronic pain, anxiety, and other health problems. But taken the wrong way or without a prescription, these drugs pose serious health risks and addiction. A number of national surveys report that prescription drug abuse is becoming more and more
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Systematic Stress Management Program Step 6: Time Management Step 6: Time Management Section Introduction Does Time Get the Best of You? Defining Your Life Goals Activity Worksheet Activity Log Time Management Techniques Action Plan for Improving Time Usage Procrastination Quiz How Do I Procrastinate? One Dozen Ways to Overcome Procrastination Should You Delegate? Delegation Caddy
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Substance Use & Abuse Sloshing down three martinis at a business lunch went out with wide ties and bell-bottom pants. As one investment banker quipped, “No one’s going to trust you to handle their money, services, or products if you get smashed over lunch.” Keep in mind that business is business. Others’ impressions of you
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Weight Control Walk off extra weight and improve health problems. Walking is a gentle, low-impact exercise that can ease you into a higher level of fitness and health. Walking also has many health benefits. It can help lower blood pressure, reduce the risk of or manage type 2 diabetes, control weight, improve mood, and increase
Weight Control Do you set out to lose 15, 20, or 30 pounds every year or so, only to find yourself stuck after the first 5 or 10? If so, do you quit out of discouragement? There may be nothing wrong with your rate of weight loss. Your ability to set realistic goals may be
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Systematic Stress Management Program Step 7: Communication & Stress Section Introduction What is Your Ear-Q? Ten Blocks to Effective Listening Listening Blocks in My Life Skills for Active Listening Improving Your Ear-Q Assertiveness Assertiveness Inventory Assertiveness with Other People The Benefits of Assertiveness Assertiveness Training – The L.A.D.D.E.R. Technique My Practice L.A.D.D.E.R. To improve listening
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Stress Management Most people expect too much of themselves. Attempts to accomplish too much in a short period of time causes lots of unnecessary stress. The result is something doctors call hurry sickness, a constant state of rushing around trying to meet an endless line-up of self-imposed deadlines. Stress is the inevitable by-product of this
Fitness Walking Tips * Hold your head up and keep your back straight. * Bend your elbows as you swing your arms. * Take long, easy strides. Gradually increase your brisk walking time to 30 to 60 minutes, for to five (or more) sessions a week. Your goal is to get the benefits you are
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Stress Management Connect with your spiritual self. In general, spirituality is a path to finding purpose, meaning, inner peace, and hope in life. It involves your personal values and how you relate to others. For some people, spirituality includes an organized religion with its set of beliefs, symbols, and rituals. For others it is being
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