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June 17, 2004 |
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Depression, Stress and Anxiety Keep it SIMPLE tip: Think Good Thoughts Thoughts and feelings can affect your stress response. Our output of stress hormones and chemicals can be interrupted by changing the pattern of our thoughts. For instance, did you know that laughter lowers cortisol levels, blood pressure and heart rate and increases mood-elevating endorphin levels? It’s not so easy to laugh when you’ve just lost the biggest case of your life, you say. That’s true; it takes practice. But what could be easier than renting your favorite comedy videos and just laughing your way through the weekend. If you really like problems and stress, they’ll still be waiting for you in your office when you get back. Visualization, guided imagery, meditation, and prayer have all been shown to have an amazing effect on healing. Perhaps it has something to do with giving yourself permission to be a part of your own healing process, but more likely the effectiveness of these methods has to do with altering brain chemicals and wave lengths and instilling a sense of calm. Try these methods and see if they make a difference for you in the way that you experience stressful situations.
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