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	<title>Stress Relief Action Guide</title>
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	<description>Manage your stress and live life more fully!</description>
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		<title>3 Stress Treatments that Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s a fact that stress is part of our every day lives. Stress should be handled properly to avoid harm to one’s self.  We should not allow stress to govern our choice to be happy and relaxed.
Stress left unmanaged leads to harmful effects in our physical, mental and emotional aspects.  A person who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being a Manager Can Be Stressful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to be a manager.  I gave it up.  Too many hassles.  Too little free time.  Lots of stress.
But that&#8217;s not true of all managers.  Some people are born to be good managers.  However, even good managers sometimes struggle with all the responsibilities.
I recently ran across the following article by Brian Tracy.  If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Smoking Relieve Stress?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read with interest an online article published by the Chicago Tribune a week ago titled &#8220;Holdout smokers: Who they are and why they can&#8217;t quit&#8221;.  In this article, it states
&#8220;Beyond the physical addiction, smokers repeatedly pointed to the stress relief that smoking provides.  &#8220;Cigarettes are just adult pacifiers,&#8221; said three-pack-a-day smoker Deborah Israel, 56, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Personality Can Be Hazardous To Your Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came across a report on a new study published by Daniel K. Mroczek, a professor of child development and family studies at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana).  The study looked at personality traits and how they affected mortality rates.  They found
&#8220;that having worrying tendencies or being the kind of person who stresses easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vacations and Stress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone could use a break from the hustle and bustle of life.  With everything that’s going on in our lives, it can take a toll on us if we don’t take a breather.  You need to take a vacation away from it all, even if it is for a few days.  It helps to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stress Can Be Good?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Normally we all automatically associate the word &#8220;stress&#8221; with &#8220;bad&#8221;.  But in actuality, we all need stress to grow and become all that we can be.  It&#8217;s that management of the fine line between &#8220;good&#8221; and &#8220;bad&#8221; that becomes the hard part.
Good stress is also known as eustress.  The prefix &#8220;eu&#8221; means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stress and Weight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading the news today I saw a report of a new study linking stress and weight gain.  The author of the study, Jason Block, M. D. , M. P. H. , a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health &#38; Society Scholar at Harvard University, said
&#8220;Today&#8217;s economy is stressing people out, and stress has been linked to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activating Events &#8211; What?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get a lot of dialog about my use of the term &#8220;activating events&#8221;.  Of course, you can&#8217;t blame me for it.  I wasn&#8217;t the first to use it.  Albert Ellis, the psychologist, first coined the term to describe those events in our environment that cause us to stress out.  But [...]]]></description>
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