The Stress Blaster Programme

Do men suffer from stress more than women?

2011-05-17T11:18:00.002+01:00

In a recent article in the Logan West Leader in Australia, Dr Michael Gillman argues that men probably suffer from stress more than women as men tend to push their troubles to one side while women find it easier to share their emotions with their friends.

But whether you share your troubles or not does not really get to the root cause of the problems or find a "cure" for your stress/depression/anxiety etc.

He goes on to give a comprehensive, and rather frightening, list of physical and psychological symptoms of stress. I am not going to repeat it as you can read his article by clicking on this link; Logan West Leader.

He suggests several solutions such as changing negatives into positives but to a stressed or depressed person this would probably appear to be as difficult as climbing Mount Everest. How on earth are they going to achieve it, especially as in all probability they haven't really analysed the causes of their condition. Why not?

Simply because they haven't got a clue where to start.

The Stress Blaster Programme addresses these problems and leads participants through a series of assessments so that they can better understand their condition and it's causes. It also presents some very sophisticated tools and techniques to enable them to discard their stresses quickly end easily and instill a feeling of deep relaxation at will.

A FREE trial is now ofered.

To take advantage of it please visit www.stressblasterprogramme.com

Stress could affect fertility treatment

2011-05-11T09:38:00.004+01:00

Women undergoing certain infertility treatments are more likely to become pregnant if they take part in a simultaneous stress relief programme according to the Journal Of Fertility and Sterility, reported in The New York Times.

The diagnosis of infertility can cause considerable stress and sadness and so often the only advice that couple get is "just relax and you will get pregnant". But how often are they ever given an effective stress management and stress relief programme to assist them.

A programme such as The Stress Blaster Programme is a proven success and teaches users to identify their own unique stessors and provides the sophisticated tools and techniques to instantly "nip stress in the bud" and and induce instant relaxation at will.

To read the full article in the New York Times, click here.

Veterans and stress

2011-05-09T10:52:00.003+01:00

A recent Women Veteran's Health Fair in Rapid City offered information booths on a variety of health issues, including stress management.

Dr. Sally Weyer gave a presentation on the "mind/body connection" focusing on how a person's mental health impacts on how they feel physically. She said " Anytime you stuff your emotions and don't deal with them your body pays a price."

She gave examples of how women can maintain their health and reduce disease; including staying centred through exercise and meditation, deep breathing exercises and progressive relaxation. " This can reduce blood pressure, stomach disorders and deal with sleep issues."

Weyer explained that by simply adopting a different mindset, an individual can effectively manage issues involving anger and depression.

Adopting a different mindset is one of the basic principles of my own Stress Blaster Programme, which will explain why this is so necessary and also provide the tools and techniques to enable you to accomplish this. Please check out The Stress Blaster Programme for more information and access to a free sample of the programme at www.stressblasterprogramme.com

The full article on The Women Veterans Fair was published in the Rapid City Journal and can be read by clicking here.

Till next time.

Stress could be killing you but now the good news

2011-05-08T13:10:00.002+01:00

Stress related illness is the number one killer in today’s high pressured world. It is cited by doctors as being one of the primary causes of numerous life threatening illnesses, such as heart disease, strokes and cancer.

However, it is all so unnecessary as stress can be handled simply and easily.

Yes! Suffering from stress is not necessary and everybody can relax, feel good and get their lives back. There is no reason at all to be constantly subjected to the endless cycle of headaches, insomnia, indigestion, irritability and all the other pernicious effects of stress. Unfortunately nobody can get away from potentially stressful situations in today’s existence but stress can be controlled by the way in which you respond to it and manage it.

Stress can be made to work for you and if handled correctly can give you a competitive edge and improve your performance in all areas of your life.

The successful Stress Blaster Programme has been designed over a period of years to eradicate your stress quickly and easily and allow you to relax at will, instantly, no matter where you are or what your circumstances are. By participating in the programme you will discover how to get rid of mental and physical stresses that affect your health and your performance in all areas of your life.

I have presented this programme to businesses, sports clubs and individuals for many years but have now retired. I am 100% convinced that anybody who participates in it will be able to reduce their stress levels and relax and get their life back so I have now decided that it is time to "put something back" and try and get the programme to as many people as possible.

The programme used to cost over £100 ($160) but I am now offering it at a price that anybody can afford; just £8.99 (approx US$14.40)

No, thats not a typo; it's now available for just £8.99 and you can also access a FREE sample of the programme to test it first.

Just log on to www.stressblasterprogramme.com to read more about it and get hold of your "no strings attached" free trial.

I guarantee that you will not regret it.

Stress in pregnancy makes child unruly

2011-05-07T15:24:00.004+01:00

Another angle of the pernicious effects of stress emerged today in the Daily Mail (UK).

Apparently researchers have found that stressed mothers to be are more likely to have unruly, hot-tempered children.

The study discovered a strong link between mental pressures on the mother in pregnancy and first few months of the child's life and the youngsters behaviour later on at school.

It is thought that the stress hormones in the womb affect the delicate development of the unborn baby's brain, raising the odds of them experiencing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other behavioural problems.

You can read the full article here.

As the author of the successful Stress Blaster Programme, I must admit that this is one angle that I hadn't considered but reinforces my belief that stress one of the root causes of many serious illnesses.

If you would like to learn how to beat your stress levels and be able to relax instantly please visit www.stressblasterprogramme.com

Avoid Stress. It Really Can Kill

2011-04-20T15:56:00.004+01:00

"Stress has a huge impact on the immune system" says researcher John Curnow.

The immune system's effectiveness is related to levels of cortisol and persistent stress raises the level of this hormone to harmful levels.

Stress has been shown to affect the ability of neutrophils to kill bacteria and when researchers compared stress from 3 common causes; hip fracture, bereavement and looking after someone, they found losing a loved one can have as damaging effect on neutrophils as fracturing a hip.

"It's why older people often die soon after losing a loved one" he said. Research suggests that die of a broken immune system not of a broken heart.

Please visit my Stress Blaster Programme to learn more about stress and how to beat it and learn how to relax instantly.

Stress and under-achievement in life

2009-10-13T14:44:00.006+01:00

Stress is one of the major causes of under achievement in life and prevents us from transforming our full potential into success but first let us examine the meaning of the word ‘potential‘. A typical dictionary definition of the word is;

‘Possible but as yet not actual; latent; that may be manifested’.

In other words something that exists but has not yet manifested itself, which is quite appropriate when applied to human beings!

The laws of physics state that everything has a tendency to degenerate from a condition of order to one of chaos. The human being, however, is a contradiction and there is hardly an area of human endeavour that does not undergo continuous progress; science, medicine and sport to name but a few. Humans are continually expressing their potential by turning their latent possibilities into reality.

Although history has shown that humans are limitless in their ability to innovate and achieve, they also have the tendency to wilfully doubt their potential and place barriers in the way of their progress. How many times have you given up on something saying “I can’t do this” and then regretted it afterwards knowing that with a little more application you could have succeeded?

The ability to transform potential into reality is influenced by only one factor. Belief! Unfortunately in most cases this has become a belief in an inability to achieve despite the lessons of history.

For example, prior to the 1976 Olympic Games, weightlifters considered that it was impossible to lift a deadweight of 500lbs. In other words they all had a belief in their inability to do so. During the Games, the Russian weightlifter, Vasily Alexeyev, was preparing for his final lift, which if successful would win him the gold medal. His trainers told him he would be lifting 499lbs, which he believed was possible and he promptly lifted it to win. Afterwards they showed him that he had actually lifted 501lbs.

Within only a few months of the Games he was regularly lifting over 560lbs
and most of the world’s leading lifters had broken the previously ‘impossible’ 500lbs ‘barrier’. He proved that the only factor previously limiting his performance was his belief in his inability and not his muscular strength. Once he discovered this, his belief system changed from that of being limited to one of having unlimited potential.

So where do these beliefs in our inability come from?

It is a complicated and subtle process that starts early in childhood. How often have you heard the following from parents, teachers and friends;

“Don’t be silly. You will never be able to do that”.

“Let me do it for you. It’s too difficult, too hard, too far etc. Try something easier”.

“Are you sure you can really do this”?

And so on resulting in our perceptions of our abilities in our formative years becoming slanted. One limitation after another becomes an internal reality until we are finally entrenched with a belief system that says, “I am a human being therefore I am limited“.

Yet everybody, with very few exceptions, was born with willpower, imagination, intellect, desire and the capacity for action, all of which allow us to give expression to our potential and achieve at a high level. It is the loss of one or more of these qualities that leads us to become limited. The challenge is to undo these limitations as they are only perceptions that have been imposed either by oneself or by others.

Let’s take an example of how this can affect you later in life. You are a salesperson and regularly reach your target of selling 100 units a month but your company management suddenly decides that your target should be increased to 120 units a month. Unfortunately you have also become a limited person and can’t exercise any creative abilities or use your imagination to form new ideas. Logic prevails! “Nobody has ever sold this amount before so I’m not going to be able to do it. It’s impossible” you complain.

However, the only barrier to achieving your new target is your own negative perceptions. You believe that you do not have the ability to cope with the demands being placed on you with the result that you suffer anxiety about your performance. And performance anxiety is plain and simply stress, invariably accompanied by a lowering of your self-concept and self-confidence, which in turn will increase your stress levels, probably resulting in a reduction of present performance.

The barrier to reducing stress levels and achieving your full potential is your belief in your own inability to perform. The secret is to control the traffic on the two way street. Control the external reality on your own terms and unleash your own resources and impose them on it.

Please take a look at my Stress Blaster Programme to learn more.

Till next time.

The Stress Blster Programme...the background

2009-10-10T12:11:00.003+01:00

Before going on to discuss The Stress Blaster Programme in more detail I think it is important to explain how it all originated.

When I was younger I was a keen amateur sportsman; soccer and squash being my main sports. Eventually age caught up with me and prevented me from participating further at any decent level so I started coaching. It didn’t take me long to realise that there was more to success than simply fitness training and honing physical skills; there was a mental and psychological aspect as well so I decided to take a couple of courses in Sports Psychology.

I noticed that many of my charges suffered anxiety about their performance in forthcoming competitions and performance anxiety, as I was soon to find out, is simply stress. They were so ‘stressed out’ by worrying if they were going to perform well that their self-esteem and confidence plummeted and they went into their event in a negative frame of mind and their ultimate performance was very predictable; defeat, even though many of them actually had the talent and fitness to win.

They had become limited individuals as years of negative conditioning, right from birth in fact, has given them negative perceptions of their ability. They, like most of us, had been bombarded with negative feedback throughout their lives. Such as;

“Don’t be silly, you will never manage that”.

“It’s too hard for you, try something easier”.

“Don’t be stupid”.

“Are you sure you can really do this”?

The Stress Blaster Programme will reverse all these years of negative conditioning, remove the barriers to success and the achievement of your full potential and change you attitude to one of unlimited potential in all areas of your life.

Unfortunately, it took a tragic event to finally open my eyes to this. One of my seemingly healthy and fit team mates suddenly died of a heart attack at the age of 39and his distraught widow told me that he had never stopped worrying about something; quite often something very insignificant.

“Mike” she said, “He worked and worried himself to death. I don’t think that he ever relaxed for a day in his life”.

Her comments had a profound effect on me and immediately changed my perspective on what I was trying to achieve as I realised then that stress was the number one enemy. Sure, I continued to coach soccer and squash, but I expanded my horizons to look at life in general, not just sport.

The result, many years later, is The Stress Blaster Programme, which is designed to redress the imbalance in our perceptions about how we see the demands placed on us and our ability to cope

Many stress management programmes have been written, and unfortunately most of them are gimmicky, expensive and not effective because they do not get to the root cause of the problems. They also tend to present a “one size fits all” solution, entirely ignoring the fact that we are all individuals with our own unique problems. Very few have anything useful or practical to offer as a solution.

It presents the stress problem in easy to understand every day terms and provides a series of assessments for individuals to identify their own stressors and identify these wrong perceptions. But most importantly it provides the tools and techniques to enable participants to restructure their thinking and their lives, correct these wrong perceptions and realise their full potential in all areas.

It also teaches participants the “relaxation response” which can be used any time, anywhere and under any circumstances to induce instant relaxation, calmness and clear thinking. I do not know of any other stress management programme that will teach you the secrets of the instant relaxation response.

Many stress management programmes have been written, and unfortunately most of them are gimmicky, expensive and not effective because they do not get to the root cause of the problems. They also tend to present a “one size fits all” solution, entirely ignoring the fact that we are all individuals with our own unique problems. Very few have anything useful or practical to offer as a solution.

Of course there are some excellent ones on the market as well and for this reason I am quite happy to display advertisements on this blog so you can have a look at what else is available and compare them with The Stress Blaster Programme. Please feel free to check them out.

In my next post I will discuss the latent potential that we all have and why we tend to wilfully ignore and accept mediocrity.

Till next time.

Stress. The false promises

2009-10-08T10:51:00.008+01:00

In my last post I stated that stress is all about incorrect perceptions and unless these are changed little progress will be made to overcome stress.

There are hundreds of so called stress mangagement programmes on the market and the vast majority of them totally ignore this and and present short term solutions that never get near to treating the root cause of stress. To name but a few of their recommendations;

Medication

Deep breathing exercises

Taking a holiday

A walk or round of golf

And so on. You have probaly heard most of them and probably tried them but you are still suffering from stress because they do not get to the root cause of the problem and give nothing more than temporary relief. The next day you are right back where you started.

On this theme I must mention the latest "lunatic" cure for stress expounded by a National Health Trust in Scotland, which recommends that their employess take up knitting in their lunch hour to help them relax and relieve their stress levels. Taking up the needles might well help to relax some employees but as soon as they are back at work it will be back to square one.

I couldn't help laugh at this one but a fews days later I was in fits when reading that in Congleton, Cheshire, Health and Safety officials had visited the local hospital, which had boxes of knitting needles and wool in their waiting rooms so patients could knit squares for blankets. They decided that knitting needles were dangerous and should be kept out of sight in case they caused accidents. Talk about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing!

So where is the solution to be found for the great stress problem? Well obviously it's in the mind and I'll talk more about this in future posts. In the interim if you would like to know more about my own Stress Blaster Programme please visit www.stressblasterprogramme.com

Till next time.

Stress...the myths and the truth

2009-10-06T15:56:00.008+01:00

Stress is not a disease.

It is simply a perception; albeit a wrong perception. In just about all situations that you encounter in life, certain demands are placed on you and you apply certain resources to meet those demands.

If you think that you don't have the resources to meet the demands being placed on you then the result will be uncomfortable to say the least. If you feel that you have the resources to cope then you will be happy.

So stress is simply caused by a lack of balance between the way you perceive the demands placed on you and the way you perceive your ability to cope.

As simple as that....well on paper at least but to a stressed person their perceptions are very real.

However, when an instant demand is placed on you and you have little time to think about it you invariably find that you do have the resources to deal with it. Many heroic feats have been performed by normal people who never had the time to stop and think if they could cope. We only have to look back to the World Wars when millions of ordinary people performed heroic deeds when they never had time to stop and think about what they were doing.

Just thinking about arriving home one day and finding your house on fire and your children trapped inside is stressful because you don't think that you would be able to cope and rescue them. But in reality you would.

So at the end of the day most people can rise to the occasion and handle the most difficult situation yet they still wilfully doubt their potential to cope with many situations, causing the onset of stress.

So stress is all in the mind and can be brought on by simple thought. And if stress originates in your mind it makes sense to look there for the solution.

This point seems to have been missed by most stress management programmes but forms the basis for my own Stress Blaster Programme.

I'm going to be expanding on this in later blogs but if you would like to read more plelase go to http://www.stressblasterprogramme.com/

Till the next time.

Stress...the background

2009-10-06T11:51:00.004+01:00

Stress is all around us and we cannot escape from it...it's part and parcel of today's hectic lifestyle and doctors now accept that it is at least one of the contributory factors in numerous life threatening illnesses such as heart attacks, strokes and cancers.

It is also one of the major barriers in the way of achieving our full potential and success and in order to draw upon the unlimited potential which is inherent in us all we have to recognise that we need to change and develop and we must be willing to acquire new skills in order to overcome stress, relax and achieve success.

Stress could be killing you and at best it is preventing you from functioning to your fullest potential but it is all so unnecessary and can be handled quickly and easily.

Everybody can learn how to relax, feel good and get their lives back. There is absolutely no necessity to be constantly subjected to the endless cycle of headaches, insomnia, indigestion, irritability and all the other pernicious side effects of stress. It can be controlled by the way in which you respond to it and manage it and can be made to work for you and if handled correctly can give you a competitive edge and improve your performance in all areas of your life.

No doubt you will probably have been told many times, "You are under stress. Calm down and relax". But have you ever been shown how to relax instantaneously under any circumstances no matter where you are or what you are doing? Probably not!

And what about, "You need more confidence". But have you ever been shown how to boost your self-esteem and build up your confidence? Probably not!

There is no doubt that high stress levels and low self-esteem and self-confidence go hand in hand. The more you doubt your ability to perform, the more anxiety you will suffer and performance anxiety is plain and simply stress. And the more stress you suffer, the lower your self-esteem and self-confidence will plummet. This is a vicious downward spiral which must be stopped.

This all sounds very negative and unfortunately this is how most people see it but as I pointed out earlier there is no need for it. My successful Stress Blaster Programme addresses these and many other problems associated with stress which will be discussed in later blogs.

Till next time.