Coping with Stress

How do you cope with stress when you're right in the middle of it?

Million dollar question because if you can't you might not make it through the stress. Learning how to cope with stress has to happen right now. You must recognize what the signs are and notice when you've had too much.

Then you have to know how to deal with it. How do you do that? That is what takes time and attention to the matter.

For more information go to Coping with Stress

Reduce Stress

Three Ways to Reduce Stress

On a rainy Saturday in February I fell off a four-foot high truck flat on my back onto concrete. Now this isn’t something I do everyday as a chiropractor, nor do I recommend you do it if you have nothing better to do, even if you are a thrill seeker.

I laid still for a moment and thought: “This really hurts and I wonder if I can get up.”

I rocked back and forth to gain moment and used the old power-up-the-legs trick and got to my feet. Now what I noticed was that I could stand relatively straight except I was bent to the left. When I even thought about moving to the right I had a sharp pain in my left kidney area, and I thought that I had blown my left kidney to tiny pieces.

There were a number of people around and you know what you do when you trip in public: “Oh, I’m okay. I’m a little bruised but I’m really okay.” It’s embarrassing but I had no shame.

My son put his arm around me just to check in and I said I’d be alright. As the day continued I didn’t feel too bad except when I moved to the right. Pain seared into my exploded left kidney. Now I don’t know how long it takes for blood to collect in the urine but I checked regularly and didn’t notice any the rest of the day.

That evening I had my wife go to my office and get my cold laser and I began lasering myself an hour at a time, directly over my left kidney. That night was a fairly miserable night trying to sleep.

The next day I was still in pain, again, when I moved to the right side. I kept up lasering and added a barrage of nutritional supplements, and I also began clearing myself with a chiropractic technique I just had learned. I moved stiff and guarded.

The next day I went to my office and someone thought I’d better X-ray myself. I did and that’s when I discovered two broken pieces of vertebrae near my left kidney.

That was it. I cancelled the next few days, took my laser and a few more bottles of nutrition with me and went home. I began a course of taking care of myself; lasering and nutritional supplements to fuse the bone tissue for 4-6 hours a day.

By Friday, 6 days later, I went back to work a full day. Little pain but not too bad. I was in rapid healing and continued the protocol I had begun. Now, one month later, I have full range of motion and don’t even realize I had a problem. There never was blood in the kidney so I don’t think it exploded. It was fun to say it was though.

The point: take care of yourself now because you never know what and when something will happen to you.

Three ways to deal with physical stress:
1. Make sure your body is in good muscular shape. Do you exercise regularly? Better start.
2. Make sure you tissues have a good supply of nutrients. Are you eating as good as you could and do you ingest whole food supplements?
3. Make sure you can develop an appropriate healing attitude. How’s yours?

Stress will come at you, no doubt about it. Have you prepared yourself for it? What will you do when it becomes too great? This lesson from falling off the truck is all about doing the things now so when the stress hits you may have a fighting chance to get through it.

For my stress manual go to Reduce Stress

Stress of Medicine

Vaccinations are the injections of foreign and inert materials into the body bypassing the natural barriers. Natural immunity is an innate response. Why does medicine think they know what the body needs?

Vaccinations are just another body stress. What what will happen in few years to the health of people as the number of vaccinations increases!

The rest of this article is found at:

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_10655.cfm

"US Government Concedes That Mercury Causes Autism"

* Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now What?
The Huffington Post, February 25, 2008
Straight to the Source

After years of insisting there is no evidence to link vaccines with the onset of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.

Go to Body Stress for more information

Stress Relief

Stress relief is also about avioding certain things/events/people that cause you stress.

Three weeks ago I fell 4 feet onto concrete and broke two vertebrae. Before I could think I was up and around, although in quite the pain. It wasn't until I took an X-ray of myself that I discovered the fractures. I decided right then, two days later, that I ought to get off my feet and rest.

By resting for a few days, and of course cold laser 3-6 hours a day, and more nutritional supplements than usual, I was back to a full day at the office less than one week later.

My lesson: do what you need to do now so later things will be better.

Here for more stress relief

Stress Reduction

Stress Reduction

Physical stress reduction involves such things as using deep breathing. Breathing a deep diaphragmatic breath increases oxygen supply and causes the core body muscles to relax.

Nutritional stress reduction involves using nutrients that bring vitamins and minerals to the stressed organs. One of particular mention are the adrenal glands. These tiny glands are the front runners of stress and when they are overworked like most people, blood pressure goes up, heart beat increases, and the rest of the body goes into chronic stress mode.

Emotional stress reduction involves many types of work. One is recognizing what the offending stress is. Once it is identified emotional stress management approaches can be made. Alternative approaches can be made to handle the stressful event, person, or memory.

Stress reduction can include many types with many solutions.


Dr Peter Lind

stress reduction

Stress Effects

Show a person with effects and I'll show you a person with some kind of stress.

In other words, stress causes every effect or symptom you have. Stress causes heart problems, skin problems, adrenal and organ problems. Stress puts pressure on your entire body. Sleep is affected. Rest is affected. Work and recreation is affected by stress.

Reduce stress and your health will improve and your life will improve.

Dr Peter Lind is a chiropractor using Kinesiology along with other newly developed procedures and protocols to remove the affects of stress on the body.

Stress Health

How stress affects health is the largest challenge facing health care. Not in the sense of mental emotional stress but in the kinds of ways all types of stress affect health.

Meaning: there are at least 6 kinds of stress that affect health. Every one of them can influence health to the degree that it causes illness, disease, and death.

To manage these types of stress is to manage and improve health.

At least manage the BIG THREE: mental/emotional stress, physical stress, and nutritional stress. Get control on these and you can create health and well-being in your life.


Dr Peter Lind
stress health

Stress Symptoms

Every symptom a person has is related to stress. Stress causes all ills and affects of the body.

There are certain kinds of stress that are responsible. Nutritional or chemical stress, physical stress like trauma, and emotional stress. There are other not so common stress that can affect a person like thermal, electromagnetic, geopathic, and these are becoming greater as technology advances.

Each of these cause the body to respond in certain ways that we may call symptoms.

For more information go to stress symptoms

Dr Peter Lind

Stress Affects

There is 108 pages added to www.stress-less-living.com and it will be very valuable if you read through it, if you have the time.

This is why there has not been a post for a month...things take time!

Dr Peter Lind
stress affects

Health Diet

Monsanto’s genetically engineered Roundup Ready sugar beets were deregulated by USDA in 2005. Back then, the sugar market rejected GE sugar, but times have apparently changed. GE sugar beets will be going into commercial production across the west in 2008. Farmers, gardeners, seed and food producers are being sought who are concerned about the entrance of GE sugar beets into the fields, sugar market, and super market, to voice their opinion on this very important matter.

Contact Kevin Golden, staff attorney for Center for Food Safety, to share your concern and potentially get involved in challenging GE sugar beets kgolden@icta.org.

This is NUTRITIONAL STRESS and creates effects of stress of the likes we can only imagine now. Genetic engineered foods will continuing creating unintended consequences.

Dr Peter Lind
Health Diet

Nervous Breakdown Symptoms Stress

What causes the steps towards the breakdown of stress? It is a progression; it doesn't just happen.

I had two observations that might help explain some of this.

Just yesterday I was sitting outside in the sun for an hour and half at the coffee shop on a beautiful November, I decided to go get my car tires rotated.

When I got to the tire shop I began watching people and noticed right away tha the male customers were ALL overweight. They were at the counter bouncing bellies at each other, I thought: "how did this happen? Did it start last week, last summer, or last year, or did it accumulate over the last 5 years?"

While I was observing and opining to myself, someone outside squeeled their back car tires. It wasn't a quick "get out in traffic" squeel. It was a "look at my car" squeel.

At that, all the employees of the tire shop erupted into applause; one said "ca-ching, ca-ching," another said: "see you next summer."

Two points:

1.The tire squeeler fast-tracked his way (I assume male) to the point of BREAKDOWN. The more squeels, the faster he's going to approach breakdown.

2. The fat men in the tire shop are fast-tracking their way to ill-health.

In both cases they both are pushing past balanced levels.

All this in the tire shop.

Dr Peter Lind
Nervous Breakdown Symptoms Stress

Stress Types

We all know about the three types of stress: physical, nutritional, and emotional. But we must come to grips that there are many more stress types.

Electromagnetic
Thermal
Allergies
Toxins
and all the other "minor" stress types: relational, occupational, spiritual, financial...

So how does one deal with all these kinds of stress? Like in the sport of bowling, when you hit the kingpin just right, all the other pins fall as well. In dealing with stress, when the MAJOR areas of stress are addressed, many of the minor ones become non-issues.

Here is a link to Stress Types.

Dr Peter Lind

http://www.stress-less-living.com

Symptoms of Stress

Some of the most bizarre symptoms of stress happen when you don't expect it. Your face flushes red. Your lip pops out a cold sore. Sweat pours off your face and body in less than five seconds. Your heart pounds like a tiger is chasing you and you're not even moving.

How does this all happen in a matter of seconds with or without a prominant source of stress?

This is what a powerful affect of stress is--a reaction by your body to a threat of stress. Your body is doing what it is supposed to do--react to the stressful situation. The problem comes in when this response to stress continues long after the threat of stress is removed.

High blood pressure. Fatigue. Insomnia. Muscle weakness. Heart racing. Shallow breathing. Indigestion.

Actually, list any symptom you want. It is related to one of the three kinds of stress:Physical, Nutritional, and Emotional.

Why would you medicate a symptom of stress? Find the cause of stress and see if it is appropriate? Fix the cause, don't cover up the symptom.

Dr Peter Lind
http://www.stress-less-living.com

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE CAUSES

High Blood Pressure Causes

Why doesn’t anyone ever want to know what causes high blood pressure? Why are we so quick to take high blood pressure medication without asking: “Why is my blood pressure high in the first place?”

If we know why it is high maybe we can REDUCE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE NATURALLY!

Don’t you think high blood pressure is caused by STRESS? You are exactly right—but what KIND of stress? There are many kinds of stress and many causes of high blood pressure.

Click here to find out all the HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE CAUSES!

Peter Lind

http://www.stress-less-living.com

Main Cause of Stress

Life’s pressures produce internal reactions in our subconscious of which we are totally unaware. This we call stress. Think about stress as the response of the body to any demand made upon it. This is the main cause of stress. Bear in mind that there are three causes of stress: PHYSICAL, NUTRITIONAL and EMOTIONAL.

Here we are only dealing with emotional stress.

We are all under pressure. We all have internal reactions to those pressures and all of us will have physical symptoms in response to those inner feelings. This leads to Defense. We become defensive. Defense is good. It keeps us from being overcome by a particular stress. But you can’t stay in defense forever, can you?

Defense leads to exhaustion.

This is not a good place to be.

Peter Lind
http://www.stress-less-living.com/

Raw Food Health

Food is one of the big types of stress. Major improvements in your nutritional health are found in a raw food diet. The following is a list of to do's:

Eat raw food at least once a day, preferably every meal.

A raw food is something that grows in the ground, without being sprayed or tainted with.

Drink more water.

Don’t drink cola or milk.

Drink fifteen minutes before meals or an hour after meals, not with meals.

Avoid fluoridated toothpaste and chlorinated water.

Whatever you put on your skin (lotions, perfumes, deodorants…) are absorbed into your body. Don’t put anything on your skin you wouldn’t eat.

Get the mercury out of your mouth! Silver fillings your dentist put in years ago.

Don’t eat sugar! Cookies, candies, cakes, ice cream, fudge, brownies… you know.

Don’t eat Bread, Rice, Pasta and Potatoes. They are sugar.

Eat meals of small amounts of proteins with lots of vegetables (beef, fish, chicken, turkey, pork, eggs…)

Eat Fruit in between meals not with meals.

Don’t eat white, processed junk that comes from a box, can or package.

Avoid polyunsaturated oils and do not eat margarine! These are liquid plastic.

Canola oil is made from genetically engineered soybeans. It is also liquid plastic. Don't eat it.

Allergens: Avoid wheat, dairy and soy.

Soy is genetically engineered, does not digest readily in the body, and is estrogenic (causes high levels of estrogen).

Digestion: Be careful about eating seeds, nuts, popcorn (don’t eat popcorn), spicy foods, caffeine, alcohol (not more than two drinks and not two days in a row) and chocolate.

Don’t eat sugar!

Peter Lind
http://www.stress-less-living.com/

Effects of stress on the body

Now for the positive effects of stress.

Sometimes, maybe most of the time we think and dwell on the negative effects of stress so much that the concept overwhelms us.

There is another side. The positive effects of stress like when there is a sudden crisis, allows us to do unusual and oftentimes very creative things we wouldn’t normally do.

But it’s really the same side of the coin. Reacting to positive stress or negative stress is the same thing. It’s all about reacting! And reacting is a process of learning, and developing. It also has a great deal to do with your reserves: how your mind and body can stand up to the stresses, both the positive and the negative.

What about other people’s stresses? Have you noticed them? Many of us are so absorbed in our own problems that we don’t notice other people’s problems. Just for kicks, why not turn your attention outward and notice that other people have the same problems the same as you. What are they doing different? How are they dealing with things?

If what someone else is doing is working, learn and use what they’re doing for yourself. What kinds of qualities in others do you admire: confidence, peace of mind, calmness, gentleness. Borrow them and use them to your advantage. They might not even be reacting to a stress. For them it may just as well be a positive stress. Who knows?

It’s all about reacting.

Peter Lind

www.stress-less-living.com

Genetic Engineering in Beer

If you don't know the massive problems about to invade our world you have not been informed. Genetic Engineering is a BIG effect of stress on the body Here you go in a brief article:

Anheuser-Busch using experimental genetically-engineered (GE) rice to brew Budweiser

Amsterdam, International - Greenpeace today released the results of analysis showing the presence of an untested experimental genetically-engineered strain of rice at a mill in Arkansas, in the United States, which is operated by Anheuser- Busch to brew its beer brand, Budweiser. An independent laboratory, commissioned by Greenpeace, detected the presence of GE rice (Bayer LL601) in three out of four samples taken at the mill.

The experimental GE rice is one of three rice varieties that were first found in 2006 to have contaminated rice stocks in the US. Since then, GE contamination has been found in approximately 30 per cent of US rice stocks. This has had a massive negative impact on the US rice industry as foreign markets, where GE rice has not been approved, have been closed to US rice.

"Anheuser-Busch must make a clear statement about the level of GE contamination of the rice used to brew Budweiser in the US and spell out what measures are in place to ensure this beer does not reach the company's export markets," said Doreen Stabinsky, Greenpeace International GE Campaigner.

Here is their link:

Anheuser-Busch


What's next?

Peter Lind
www.stress-less-living.com

Stress and Mental Health

I just read an article about mental health and, well, here is a partial reprint:

What exactly is mental health? There is no official definition, says the World Health Organization (WHO).

So far, there is no clear separation between the mentally healthy and those who are not because cultural differences, subjective assessments and varying theories in psychology all affect what is “defined” as mental health.

According to the MMHA, mental health is the feeling of well-being, happiness, the ability to cope with life’s challenges, to accept others and most of all, to have a positive attitude towards oneself.

“Mental health means being psychologically and mentally healthy, and being able to function within our capabilities and abilities,” said Urmilah Dass, a clinical psychologist based in KL.

“There are many degrees of mental health. No single characteristic can be taken as evidence of good mental health and nobody has all the traits of good mental health all the time,” wrote the MMHA in their booklet, What is mental health?"

GREAT! The Experts can't define mental health! If you can't define it how can you do anything about it?

Peter Lind

www.stress-less-living.com

Stress Affect Your Overall Health

There are many kinds of stress that affect the body in many quite different ways. It's all a matter of how a person deals with the stress.

For one it may be a minor outbreak of a cold or flu as it deals with a bacteria. For another the stress may turn into a moderate disease process. For another, the moderate disease may turn into a chronic even degenerative disease.

I know there are underlying genetic predispositions. But how do these genetic influences begin? They begin with some kind of stress: physical, chemical, or emotional.

To take care of health is to take care of the stress in our lives.

Peter Lind

www.stress-less-living.com

Spinach Recall--a Type of Stress?

Five deaths, one year later...what really happened?

The FDA was called in for safety on an organic food.

Let's see...VIOXX, CELEBREX, DEXTRA--all causing thousands of deaths for years before these potent drugs were taken off the market. How can that be?

One thing history shows is that the government is not responsible for health. They may control certain measures but if we are compairing these potent drugs to organic spinach, there is no rationality in their decisions.

Take a new look at the spinach debacle. My theory on the outbreak of E. coli, a bacteria, in the organic spinach issue lies more in the ill-health of the host--you and me--than in the bacteria. There are millions of bacteria around us all the time. Millions of bacteria live inside your gut. Well, there's supposed to be.

What isn't normal and a prime suspect in the case is the absence of live, friendly bacteria that are supposed to help break down food and a number of other important metabolic processes.

Instead, we have become the nation of ANTIBIOTICS. Medical health care has been on a rampage of prescribing antibiotics...for everything...killing all good, bad, and ugly bacteria. Antiboitics are now being found in many waterways and even the oceans. We are left being susceptible to even the harmless bacteria that overwhelmes the body and in the case of the organic spinach, causes death.

It isn't the organic spinach. This will not be the last case.

There will be a revenge of the antibiotic resistant strains.

The sad reality may be the government's insistance on PASTURIZING food. Killing the enzymes and neutralizing the nutrients in food. This process will not allow bacteria to grow but will be more harmful to the natural food cycle.

This is certainly a nutritional effect of stress.

Heaven help us!

Peter Lind
www.stress-less-living.com

Stress Types

There are three looming types of stress on the body.

The most common, the one most people think about is physical stress. Physical stress begins with gravity--it's all pressing down, all the time. Physical stress affects muscles, bones, joints, and to a degree, the internal organs. One way to combat physical stress is to #1 Avoid heavy amounts of it, or #2 Build up your body by doing the correct exercise program for your body type. These will combat the physical affects of stress.

The second type of stress on the body is chemical or nutritional stress. This comes in all forms of ingesting: food, water, air. When these become over-powering, the body has to adjust to the assaults. Tissues and systems break down and succumb to the stress of chemical/nutrition stress. Same as physical stress there are two ways to deal with it. #1 Stop ingesting the harmful food/water/air and #2 Build up the body with good food/water/air and important for our day and age...take appropriate nutrional supplementation.

The third type of stress on the body is...emotional. This comes in all shapes and sizes. It begins early in life and for a lot of people, remains. Then it is compounded by more and more types of emotional stress. After awhile we get good at burying it hoping it will go away. It doesn't. Emotional stress drives our physical engine. Again, like the other two stresses, #1 Stop the emotional onslaught and #2 Find a way to remove the unwanted/unhealthy emotional baggage.

Sounds easy...takes a lifetime.

Peter Lind
www.stress-less-living.com

Kinds of Stress

Should be kind of stressed.

An epiphany hit me the other day which had to do with the health of people and their place in the world. In America it seems that children are getting unhealthier year by year. Diabetes, obesity, autism...just add to the list. The social support of these children as #1 Children's health gets worse, and #2 More and more children are added to these unhealthy statistics, we're going to have to support more and more of them in our society.

On the other side of the world, (The world is becoming flatter because of education, technology and the third world propensity to become americanized, (pure irony)) the health will also improve. We are finding this now as the US continues to decline in health status, what is it, 37th?

So my question is: How long will it be when Americans will be over-stressed with social services and can't keep up with technical advancements?

The very sad and real issue is that these children's health problems are controlable. But who's helping do this?


Peter Lind
http://www.stress-less-living.com

How long can a person live without food

Talk about stressful. Unless you are fasting or got lost in the woods (easy to do where we live) you can go for a week or two without food.

I had a pastor/patient of mine go on a 30 day fast. He did alright, not too weak, not too sick, but he was fasting and meditating. Things in the body work differently when you are going on a deliberate fast. We can't explain this other than God is working with the person.

If you are lost in the woods, that is a different story. The will to live is very powerful and other than the requirement for nourishment, a person can go several weeks without food. Mind you, this is stressful to the body. But what choice do you have?

If you're going through a normal week and missing a day or two of food (who would do that?) you're going to run into problems. Food keeps the body ticking. YOU NEED FOOD to sustain normal growth, repair, and activity.

So how long can a person live without food? A day or two without problems but don't let it become a habit because it will become an unhealthy, stressful habit. On the other hand, you can go as long as the will to live is strong enough if you are lost in the woods or until God tells you to stop fasting if you are fasting.

Peter Lind
www.stress-less-living.com

Types of Stress

Too many times when we think about our stress we think of only emotional stress. After all, isn't that the stress we are talking about? But when we think about the different kinds of stress or ask ourselves how does stress affect health? we come up with an entire set of questions and answers.

Stress affects the body in three broad spectrums:
Physically
Nutritionally
Emotionally

It is not only emotional stress, nutritional stress can cause emotional stress.
Physical stress can cause emotional stress. In fact, most of the time these three stresses inter-play all the time.

One of the main goals in regards to health is to reduce or limit these three stresses in our lives.

Peter Lind
http://www.stress-less-living.com

How does stress affect health

You almost have to experience it yourself...the effects of stress. They can be anything that causes abnormal symptoms. Tension, indigestion, muscle aches. I've been sitting here plunking on the computer...that is stressful. I'm tired and probably cranky. These are the effects of stress.

The wisdom of body gives signs and symptoms of stress for us to do something about before these symptoms become chronic. That is just how diseases develop. Persistant symptoms develop into a conglomeration of many until we have a syndrome and the longer it persists (the syndrome) the more established the disease becomes.

Why do we wait until the symptoms get so enormous? The whole idea of reducing stress is to take care of ourselves before we have to fight for our lives.

Take time to find stress reduction to remove or reduce the stress in your life.

Peter Lind

Nutrition Stress

There are three BIG causes of stress. Physical, nutritional (or chemical), and emotional. In order to lead a healthy, fully functional life, you need to consider all of these.

My article in onlinecooking.net speaks about the stress of soy. Yes, it is a chemical stress.

When we undo the stress of certain foods, our bodies will reduce the total load of stress. It's just a matter of doing it.

My site on stress deals with all three but mostly emotional stress and what to do tor reduce it or eliminate it from your life.

Peter Lind

Kinds of Stress

There are three types of stress. Physical, dealing with the structure and maintenance of the frame of the body. Nutritional, dealing with the physiology of the systems of the body. And the biggy, Emotional, dealing with the mental state.

When you talk about stress, just what do you mean? These three are all different and take specific responses to overcome them and balance the body.

Most of us think stress is emotional. I think it is but if we're going to conquer stress we need to be specific and describe what it is we're really talking about. Sometimes we take a nutritional or chemical stimulant to deal with an emotional issue. How effective is that? This is what we're dealing with in our drug-laden medical system. It is drug dependant.

If we're ever going to gain back our health we're going to have to address each stress appropriately.

This is why we are here.

Peter Lind
http://www.stress-less-living.com

Exercise Help Stress

One of the best ways to reduce stress is with exercise. What kind? There are two basic types: aerobic and anaerobic. Either one or both will increase body metabolism. But you ask: "How does exercise which causes stress also help with stress?" Great question.

Exercise does cause stress and too much can be too much. People die while they exercise. You've heard of them. So how can exercise be good for you?

You have to be in great health to be able to afford exercise. Stay away from anaerobic exercise until you build a capacity to do it. Anaerobic is the high intensity, short duration-type, like weight lifting.

Begin by walking around the block. That will help reduce stress a little. The trick is to make exercise a regular part of your life habits.

Peter Lind

Another Relatively Stressless Motorcycle Trip

From Oregon to Mendicino, California and no stress to speak about.

This photo was along the Oregon Coast on the way back. The trip was about 1,000 miles and mostly without incident. There's always something that goes not according to plan--but isn't that what vacation is all about? You have to go with the flow.

Part of the trip was a 45 mile mountain with 10, 20 mph curves almost the entire way. Did that twice. Something like that hones your motor skills and reflexes. Does wonders to take your mind off things in life.

Peter Lind

Mandatory Almond Pasteurization is WRONG!!!

Mandatory Almond Pasteurization is WRONG!!!

Please read this article and sign the petition. This is big business tinkering with your food. Food tinkering, that is undoing nature, is one of the 3 major stresses to your body.

Peter Lind

Stress Relief

When you take a hard look at your life, does it look stressful? Do you feel like you need to get away? Would a vacation give you stress relief? This is a photo of Victoria, BC where we went for a few days. A great get-away.

The point of a vacation is to change your mindset more than anything. Did the ancients ever take a vacation? I doubt it. Why do we need to? Because of our lifestyle.

You can even take a mini-vacation to relieve your symptoms of stress. But do what you can now...don't wait to take the time to refresh yourself.

Peter Lind

Causes of Stress

If you had a little more time...what would you do?

Would you do what you're doing now? Would you do some things different? Would you spend your day the way you're spending it now? Would you go to that one place you've always wanted to go? Would you write the book that you've always wanted to write? Would you talk to that person you've always wanted to talk to? Would you work two hours a day or two days a week? What would you do if you didn't have to work? If you didn't would you still work?

This isn't meant to be another one of those causes of stress. It is meant to be a reality check. How are we doing with it?

Peter Lind

Symptoms of Stress

I just read an article that I will publish that talks about stress reduction and something about reducing cancer. Stress eats at us all the time. What are we doing about it?

Are we taking time out right now to rejuvinate and revitalize ourselves? I mean every day. No wonder sleep seems so difficult for many people. We're so stressed out we can't even sleep at night.

Take 5 minutes to breath deep and calm yourself right now. Relax your shoulders and your rib cage and feel the oxygen move in and out.

I'm going to go on a motorcyle trip with a few buddies down the Oregon-California coastline. Although I have to pay attention, the act of riding my motorcycle is RELAXING. Isn't that strange?

What are you doing to relax?

Affects of Stress

Stress has a way of creeping in to life. How do you deal with it? First, what types of stress are you dealing with? Emotional? Physical? Chemical? Spiritural? Identify the kind or kinds that it is and then you have a better chance of dealing with it.

Believe it when I say there are ways to deal with stress. Keep looking and you will find answers to your most important questions.

Stress Health

Here's a list of some phobias you may have and causes of stress:
1. Arachnophobia (spiders)
2. Social phobia
3. Aerophobia (flying)
4. Agoraphobia
5. Claustrophobia (enclosed or confined spaces)
6. Acrophobia (heights)
7. Emetophobia (vomit)
8. Carcinophobia (cancer)
9. Brontophobia (thunder)
10 Necrophobia (death or dead things)

I'm afraid it's true.

Motorcycle Ride Through Sisters, Oregon

This is my first stop across the cascade mountains in a great little town called Sisters. I stopped to stretch and have a cup of coffee. Then I was off to the hot desert.

My New Movie From My Novel

Title: “Manna” (feature film) Dirt Poor Films
Author: Mark Anderson
Based on: Baron Harvest by Peter Lind
Genre: Suspense/thriller

Logline: A graduate student must stop his mentor and a ruthless bioengineering corporation before they can seize control of the world’s food supply.

Elliot Chapman is a brilliant but apathetic graduate student who only wants to move on from his sheltered academic life and find a job in the real world. Except that his senior paper, a seemingly simple data-analysis, is more important than he can possibly know—and the numbers just don’t add up.

When Elliot refuses to fudge his numbers so the college’s main corporate sponsor can apply for a patent, Elliot’s mentor comes unglued. Elliot is forced into a compromise that leads him to the company’s testing facility on the Texas-Mexico border to re-run the experiment and discover the source for the data fluctuations.

Except what Elliot doesn’t know, is that these numbers could be worth trillions of dollars and he is caught up in a struggle with global implications between…
…a tempestuous biochemist who desperately wants to corrupt Elliot and bring him into the corporate fold so they can move forward with their secret “terminator” seed.
… the powerful and savvy Columbian drug lord that the corporation has been using to test the terminator seeds, but who has been quietly manipulating international law to betray the company, steal the terminator seed, and seize control of his country.
… and Elliot’s romantic interest, who is a devout environmental activist working to sabotage the greedy corporation—or is she really a double agent?
In a desperate struggle for his own life, Elliot turns to his trusted mentor only to discover that he’s behind everything and is only too willing to sacrifice Elliot for his own greedy desires. On his own, Elliot must find a way to overcome them all. To do so, he must cross into Mexico, escape roaming bands of vigilantes, and bring back the proof he needs to stop the terminator seed from being released on an unsuspecting world.

The People in Control

Seems like the titles of most of all blogs come from mainstream media and are about current affairs, and they are probably written by younger people. The older ones haven't quite figured this newer technology out yet. So the people who seem to me to control issues are the 30 and under guys and gals.
Is this true?

The First Day

Do people actually read what someone puts on a blog? Don't they have anything better to do? I guess if what someone puts on is helpful or provocative.
So I'll pose a question such as: Is the purpose in life to be happy--and see what responses you people have.
This is my first post.

This was actually my first blog. It went out blank. How did I do that?