You thought it was bad before, but it’s getting worse. According to a new American Psychological Association (APA) study, a third of us are experiencing extreme stress: “nearly half [of Americans] believe stress is damaging their health, their relationships, and work productivity, and that it has got worse in the last [...]

There are two simple ways to have a more productive and happier life. 1. Take the controllable stressors out of your life 2. Eat the foods that are right for your body I said simple–not necessarily easy. Let’s look at the first one: I have managed to eliminate or certainly get to manageable levels, the source of most stress [...]

These are two questions that are often asked by those experiencing the effects of either. We live in a culture that likes to label every thing. Medicine can’t treat a problem unless it is a diagnosable disease. If it not a disease, it is not real.  Accused of being a quack, the physician Hans Steles who [...]

Create a powerful life using your ancestral archetypes You want to decrease your stress – align yourself with your instinctual self. The psychologist Carl Jung over a hundred years ago directed us towards parts of ourselves that are our psychological DNA. Joseph Campbell picked up Jung’s work to lay out how throughout [...]

As one goes up the other goes down. Stress can not only kill us, it also can kill our sex lives. Survival is our first priority; continuing our species is down the list. Stress as we know it is a maladapted survival response that takes our energy and focus away from sex. Sex and survival [...]

Your body often becomes the depository for your anger. When an emotion is not fully expressed, some of that energy or charge can transform itself into physical tension. Clenched jaws don’t happen overnight, they happen from years of holding frustration in your body. After a while, these tight jaws can increase your reaction through, enhancing [...]

How to heal rage “People with this problem [IED] have an insufficient ’stop’ response,” says neurophysiologist Royce Lee, M.D. The power of built-up emotions override any conscious control. Creating more coping behaviors is not the answer. Learning anger management will not do it. Counting to 10, over-exercising, using drugs and alcohol only buries the anger further [...]

When you are driving down the road and someone cuts you off – do you salute the person with your finger as you shout your feelings to them? If you do, you may be one of the 10 million men in the United States who are so angry that, according to a 2006 Harvard study, [...]

I am often amazed at how much stress I hold concerning others and their actions. Those mental conversations I have with myself about how I was wronged take a lot of time and energy.  Several years ago, after feeling betrayed by a close friend, I asked myself – what would it take for me to forgive [...]

  Every living cell and organisms has boundaries. The cell has a cell membrane or cell wall. The cougar has his territory that he defends. If you were to study forestry, one of the first phenomena you learn about is how trees fight to maintain their boundary for sunlight. We respond biologically and [...]