Calming and Peaceful Insights for Stressed Nurses and Caregivers

After Work can be relaxing, not rushed if you plan to reduce stress

After work is usually a rushed time for most nurses and caregivers. A rush to get home, a rush to fix a meal, a rush to get on Facebook and work on your "Farm" application. Yes, this is your way to unwind. I 'm on Facebook too, I spend a whole fifteen minutes or so posting Happy Birthday messages, answering my Facebook Mail and perhaps posting on my discussion board of my group page. So your rush to unwind will cause you stress, believe it or not. If you have a family to tend to your rush is even more stressed. It takes a committee to get family co-operation at times, and the strategies of a chess master to get all the things done in one evening.Stress relief starts with you, you set the tone for your home and family, even if your family consists of a loving pet or a plant.

Leave work at work, plan your evening in the morning, before you go to work or in your head while you drive to work and make a list before you get out of your car.Remenber failing to plan is a plan that will fail. In other words, attracting stress will bring stress right back at you.

Calming Capsule # 12.5 Feeling Good

Work, play, play, play , work, play , play, play, work, play , play, play, etc.

Remember here what the money is for! You can pay bills and prioritize, but you have to make time and money available for play and fun too.

Think about the ways you can play! It is okay to allow your inner child to come to the surface. Do this several times a week at first and you will find you are more relaxed and you really feel good!!

Relaxed People can be Super Achievers

Let go of the idea that gentle, relaxed people can’t be super achievers!

From where I am, in the present moment, I have noticed one of the major reasons so many people choose to remain hurried, frightened, competitive, stressed and continuing to live life in crisis mode, their fear that if they were to become more peaceful, relaxed and calm, they would suddenly achieving their goals. They would become lazy and apathetic.

I am here to tell you to put this fear out of your mind completely, by realizing that the total opposite is true. Fearful, stressed, frantic , anxious thinking takes an enormous amount of living energy and drains the precious creativity, motivation and imagination from your life.

You see when you are stressed, fearful, or frantic, you literally paralyze yourself from using your ultimate gifts, your greatest potential, not to mention pleasures and enjoyments. Any success that you might have is very short lived and is despite your fear, not because of it!

I challenge myself to seek out the very relaxed, peaceful and calm people, and surround myself with them. They are my friends, mentors and business associates. Some of these people are martial arts masters, life coaches, CEO’s of companies, both women and men. All of them are gratefully fulfilled in that they do and very proficient and profitable in their gifts and skills and talents.

You too have the ability to be calm yet passionate and purpose driven. A much more pleasing live awaits yu when you do!

How to Use Plants When You are on a Budget to Cultivate a Calm Environment

How to use plants when you are on a budget to cultivate a calm environment

Plants relieve you stress in many different ways. You don’t have to have a full time landscaper in your payroll, to have a peaceful patio or a plant filled relaxed home.

Try this low cost or no cost idea: Usually plants can be purchased at a very low cost, in most cases under $5.00. The best places to look for plants is your local home center. They will have plants that are right for your area’s climate and will give you ideas on how to nurture your plants.

One of the best way I get a supply of house plants is from friends. When I visit a friend’s home I usually go home with a cutting or a few stems from their plants to root and repot.

Plants are low maintenance or no maintenance at all: When your on a budget maintenance of any thing can be a problem. Your plants don’t have to stress you or your wallet. The plants you get from the home center will come with watering instructions and sunlight tips. For the ones you inherit from your friends, just as for their advise.

Plants can help you in cultivating a calm environment: Use your own imagination when it comes to where to put your plants. If you feel you need more calming in your living room, then make a few plants a part of the décor. Patio plants are usually the most effective for both beauty and their relaxing effects.

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

Has Stress Taken Intimacy Out of your Life?

Sex was thought to be a great stress reliever. Increasing our endorphins’ and helping to relieve minor aches and pains, too. Our 21^st century stress us very difficult to relieve quickly and much more complex then every twenty five years ago. Even a 21 year old male will have some performance issues from time to time. So, with that in mind consider the 30 year old couple, just finding the time and energy for intimacy. This can be a chore and spontaneity is a lost luxury.

How do you increase your intimacy and enjoy sex more while decreasing your stress levels?

Remember to get into the stress conditions you are now in, took quite some time. You can’t expect instant reversal.

Like any good habit stress-free sex or calm sex takes some effort. The great side is it is a lot of fun.

Remember what foreplay was? Yes, dust off the ideas from the back of your brain and think.

Communicate with your partner/spouse in advance. The planning phase is fun in itself. Plan to send sexy suggestive text messages- create code words and nick names for each other as well. (I’m not going into phone sex here! Perhaps in an other article. ) Leave notes for each other around the house as well. This subtle verbal foreplay sparks the imagination and arouses the senses, too.

By thinking with the attitude of a 20 year old couple the 30 or 40 or even 50 year old couples will focus on pleasure and not on the every day stresses.

Keep your words and ideas relaxed and calming. You will find that after some calm relaxed intimate encounters with your spouse/ partner you’ll find your stress levels decrease considerably.

The calming habit will grow, you will find that his performance will be better and sustained. While your response time and intensity will be quicker and stronger.

Water Features for Inside and Outside the House that create Calm and Relaxation

Remember when you sat by the ocean watching the water flow up to the shore or splash around the rocks--

I remember cool mountain streams flowing slowly and gently over the rocks and moss. The sounds, sights and feelings of calm were wonderful. The clear cold water running over my bare feet, the soft velvety feeling of the green moss.. Oh the memories!!

Visualizing and remembering the calm is great when you are using this during your daily meditation time.

Another way to get these feelings of calm is to bring the out doors inside. There are several ways to accomplish this.

Small water features with a pump inside, these run on electricity, they some times come with lights, but most have small smooth stones you can arrange for the full effect of the water sounds.

Get a DVD with ocean sounds or mountain streams. This will give you a continuous visual and sound experience that will calm you almost instantly. These DVD's also have quiet music as well as the nature sounds.

If you are fortunate enough to have a park or a resort close to were you live they may have water features. By all means go and have a picnic or bring a favorite book.

Always share these times with your children, partner or a friend. Calming relaxing moments that are shared mean so much more and build wonderful memories.

This is all part of your allowing yourself to self- nurture. Recharging you internal "energy" and filling your 'giving cup'.

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A Bubble Bath Gone Wrong!!

I decided to take a bubble bath, on a Monday evening a few weeks ago.

I remind you nurses how great a good long bath is, to relieve stress and prep yourself for sleep.

The bath was fairly long about a half hour, with plenty of bubbles. I found that I was starting to fall asleep in the tub so I rinsed and got out of the tub, dressed and went to bed.

The next morning was the morning from hell, I was getting ready for work and I had a rash and hives on by back and arms. Well, like a good nurse I took some benedryl and went to work.

The rash and hives continued to "grow" all day and the itching was very uncomfortable. The benedryl just was not cutting it.
So like a very stubborn nurse I waited until I got home to do any thing about the hives and itching.

My son was watching me suffer and noticed the hives spreading. he said "mom enough already I'm taking you to urgent care".

Well to make a long story short I got a script for Predisone and a strong antihistamine, five days worth. The medications of course did the trick. True,I looked like someone from a science fiction movie.

The moral of my story is rinse will after a bubble bath, use small amount of bubble stuff, and rinse, rinse , rinse!!

I don't profess to know every thing, I learn the hard way most times.

I hope my story will spark you to share your own stories.

Oh,I decided to use bath salts in moderation the next time I do a tub bath!!

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Bringing Family Pictures and Fun things Into Your Workspaces Makes Everyone Feel More Relaxed

Many nurses have works spaces where they can chart and are allowed to have ‘personal things’ displayed. This really helps the entire staff to know a little bit about you as a nurse and a person. Conversations get started that are refreshing and not work related making the tone more relaxed for everyone.

Please take advantage of these opportunities. Put up family pictures, pictures of your pets, postcards from your last vacation, or even a thank you card or two from patients. Like most of us we spend eight to twelve hours at work, so make this space a “home away from home”.

This you will find will make you feel good, refocuses your mind and brings calmness into your day.

I’ve seen pictures, smiley faces and children’s drawings in the inside of nurses lockers. These pictures and things are simple reminders of why we are ‘really’ there at work for. These simple joys will uplift you when you feel a bit sad as well.

Remember to change these pictures and ‘warm fuzzies’ frequently to keep a positive focus and relaxed feeling growing. What you are doing is nurturing yourself and you deserve it.

Labor Day spelled: Loving Alive Blissful Open Relaxation Day

This Coming Labor Day- please join with me in changing the way you think and feel!

Labor reminds us of work, struggles and of strife. For us women who have had children, labor reminds us of childbirth pain.

Let's change our perspective of the word and the day!

L  for Loving

A  for Alive

B  for Blissful

O  for Open

R for Relaxation

For you this should start to bring to mind calm, peaceful feelings, and thoughts. Breathe in these blissful feelings and pictures.

Pictures of flower filled meadows, or a white sandy beach. Pictures of a cool mountain stream or a gentle forest rain will calm your thoughts and your body.

Loving yourself by nurturing yourself first is so very important in bringing in calm feelings and relaxation into your life.

Being open to the change from coping with stress to allowing calm, peacefulness into your lifestyle is healing and good.

Relaxation on any level is energizing and of course makes one feel alive and strong.

How do you feel right now, after reading my message?  You feel good, with calm energy!

All these techniques of visualization, breathing and feeling can and will calm you. So please do this whenever you start to feel anxiety or stress creeping in on your life. The more you can push anxiety and stress away by being calm, the more control you have in bringing calm and peace into your whole lifestyle.

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