Happy Halloween Everyone!

Have a fun filled day & Be Safe. 

Need a break from your stressful hectic day?

Here are 3 easy deep relaxation techniques to help combat that stress …and relax your body and mind.

When you’re ready to get re-energize and focus, then I invite you to check out Caryolyn’s quick tips below.

Deep Relaxation Techniques – Ways to Combat Stress in Life

By Carolyn Anderson

In these times of stressful living, deep relaxation techniques are indeed in demand and, or course, are good ways to combat stress in life. In these times of demanding jobs and busy lifestyle, most of us have probably forgotten how to relax, and this is one major mistake we must correct.

Stress is beneficial in our lives but can be detrimental too – physically, emotionally and psychologically if left unmanaged. Excessive stress in our lives can lead us to many health problems as well as depression and unhappiness. We may not know it but daily stress that we tend to ignore can pile up for long and be the source of our many health problems.

Thankfully, there are easy deep relaxation techniques that you can do to manage stress and live a happier and more fulfilled life. Here are a few of them that you might find useful.

- Meditation. Meditation has been an old practice in calming the mind. Although it has been connected with religious traditions, meditation has also become an effective way to combat stress and has been a technique to relax the mind and the body. Aside from being a stress buster, it also helps you increase concentration and focus which are of course important in your day-to-day living. Deep breathing involved in meditation also helps a lot to attain deeper relaxation.

- Self-hypnosis. Self-hypnosis is also one of the deep relaxation techniques that can also be useful in managing excessive stress in life. In contrast to hypnosis where you will find a hypnotist to guide you to that heightened state of concentration and focus, you can do self-hypnosis conveniently in a quiet place alone. Visualization is an important part of self-hypnosis too. Most often, you can start self-hypnosis by visualizing the tension and stress being removed from every part of your body. Positive affirmation is also used during self-hypnosis, where you tell yourself positive statements. Self-hypnosis also uses the power of suggestion to help you attain a deeper state of relaxation.

- Imagery. Imagery is also a great technique to help you relax especially your mind. Of course, relaxing your mind can also help you relax your body and overcome the stress you encounter everyday. It can also be a simple exercise to do. You can include deep breathing techniques as well as visualization in to clear your mind and bring yourself to heightened relaxation. Imagery is done by visualizing a place or scene that helps calm your mind – a quiet beach, a peaceful mountainous scenery… and any place your find relaxing. Guided imagery is also a popular technique where you listen to audios that help you picture out a calm scene which also allows you to listen to sounds that will help you put yourself more into relaxation.

Whatever technique you wish to follow, it is important to learn about the technique in detail. The correct way of doing deep relaxation techniques is indeed important to help you achieve that calmness of mind and relaxation of the body. Choose a technique that you can do everyday to manage day-to-day stress. One very important factor in starting with any relaxation technique is to give a few minutes of your time each day to get rid of the all the tension and stress before it will wear you out completely.

Check out these 3 new alternative healthy carbohydrate substitutes. Keep your energy stable and prevent those dreadful sugar CRASH…

Why Is Bread So Addictive? Eat These 3 Foods Instead

By Andrea Albright

Eating bread is just as addictive as
heroine… but unlike a heroine addict
who has to go out and “score” their
drug…

If you’re addicted to bread, you have
to face it everywhere.

Why Is Bread So Addictive?

Bread is a refined carbohydrate, meaning it
has been stripped down of all the nutrients,
and even the fiber has been removed.

All that’s left is a carbohydrate, or
a sugar, that is absorbed into your blood
VERY fast.

And unlike table sugar that is only one
chain of a sugar molecule (or maybe two
in some kinds of sugar)…

Bread is an entire CHAIN of sugar
molecules.  And that means you get a
MASSIVE sugar hit to your system.

All these chains break down in your
digestion in an instant and FLOOD your
blood with sugar.

This gives you an energy spike, but when
your blood sugar (or glucose levels) are
too HIGH…

Your body does this really amazing thing
to protect itself…

It stores fat.

And then you CRASH.

Isn’t that fantastic?!

And when you crash, you crave more and
more bread in order to get your sugar
levels back up.

And the cycle repeats.

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You Can Break Your Addiction To Bread
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Over the next 3 days, be aware of how much bread
you are eating.

Try replacing bread with some slow-burning
carbohydrates that are not refined.

Here are some healthy substitutes:

1.  Brown Rice

2.  Quinoa

3.  Seeds And Nuts

You will still get your same “nutty,
earthy, and crunchy” satisfaction from
eating these foods like you do when you
eat bread…

But you won’t get the sugar spike, fat storage,
and a sugar crash that comes with it.

Enjoy!~

Your Friend,
Love and Light,
Andrea

P.S.  To learn how to break your sugar
addiction and stop eating refined carbohydrates,
I take you through it step-by-step in my
eBook.

It starts on p. 151 and there’s an entire
chapter on “Breaking Addictions” and it works
great for bread addiction.

If you’re ready to get this handled in your
life, I know it will work for you too, go here:

Break Your Addiction To Bread