Instant stress relief you already know how to do but likely aren't using!....

Today's Post: Thursday, 9-6-2011

There is a stress reliever that you already know how to do that works in as little as 15 seconds.

Once you know what it is, you can use it almost any time you need it.

Unbelievably, you can also use it to remove stress and increase harmony in social situations with your family AND at work.

WOW!

Here’s a bit of background on how I found it.

Since Yahoo News dropped over 80% of their daily health and medicine stories, I’ve had less information that would be useful to you to use as a source for my posts.

So, out of curiosity, after reading a recent news article, I tried Stumble Upon.

(I find it leaves out 95% of what you need to know to use it well from their introductory directions. But many online services still have that problem.)

BUT, I did discover the good news too.

The articles it does manage to get you are those that very bright and alive people & also interested in that topic found to be well done and liked. Even better, lots of those people liked that article.

I’m SO glad I did.

I found one of the most important and useful health and personal success articles I’ve ever seen!

Today’s post summarizes it.

People today are bedeviled by all kinds of stress: stress from their personal relationships, stress from their jobs, fears that limit them, and serious worries and threats.

That often causes high blood pressure, mental decline, and costly divorces just to name a few!

Meditation helps some but takes a LOT of daily time to do and many get little stress relief from it. (It takes 15 minutes a day to over an hour.)

Tai Chi has dramatically better results. It slows aging, is so effective it lowers high blood pressure about three times as well as meditation. It even works when drugs don’t. Doing it is an exercise too and one that burns as many calories as that much time spent walking. Best of all, even 10 minute sessions are effective.

But neither meditation nor Tai Chi work in 30 seconds or less. And, neither one will remove much of the stress and hassles from stress from relationships.

With Tai Chi you also need lessons or a coach to learn to do it well in addition.

Contrast those with this:

There is a stress reliever that you already know how to do that works in as little as 15 seconds. Once you know what it is, you can use it almost any time you need it. Unbelievably, you can also use it to remove stress and increase harmony in social situations with your family AND at work.

WOW!

1. How well do you already know how to do this?

How does this sound? I saw our daughter do a variation of it within seconds of her birth!

You are virtually born with knowing how hard wired into you.

That of course is one of the reasons why it is so profoundly effective. Doing it is hard-wired into the stress relief it gives you.

2. And, it lowers social stress and increases harmony because if you do it, the people around you automatically tend to copy you get their own stress relieved. Then they feel better and think better too.

This last effect has a tip on what it is.

3. Here’s the tip so strong, you’ll likely guess what it is.

It also helps you wake up and energizes your brain.

It’s YAWNING and/or the simple arm and shoulder stretches that tend to go with it.

Here’s the start of the article:

“Yawn It’s one of the best things you can do for your brain. By Andrew Newburg

Yawn.

Go ahead: Laugh if you want .... but in my professional opinion, yawning is one of the best-kept secrets in neuroscience. Even my colleagues who are researching meditation, relaxation, and stress reduction at other universities have overlooked this powerful neural-enhancing tool.

However, yawning has been used for many decades in voice therapy as an effective means for reducing performance anxiety and hypertension in the throat. "

Does that mean you can use yawning and stretching as an effective last minute help to relieve stage fright or performance anxiety.

Yes! That’s exactly what it means!

Then you are more awake and less stressed and are almost guaranteed to do better.

But there’s far more. In social situations, even if they try to override it, the people you are with or speaking to ALSO are more awake think better, less stressed, and feel better.

Yawning is so contagious and hard-wired, they may not even notice they are doing it too.

Yawning is like having Harry Potter hit you with a stress relief magic spell. It’s that fast acting and effortless to do.

What if you feel it would be rude to yawn or fear people will think that of you?

There are three solutions to that. You can even combine them.

One is simple. Just cover your mouth as you yawn and do it as if you are overpowered by the urge to yawn but know to be polite.

The second one is to do the stretching that often to usually goes with yawning.

The third one is to take the exact deep breath you do while yawning but do it through your nose with your mouth closed.

That’s the stealth version! Many people who are watching you may well find themselves yawning and boosting your social effect without even noticing they are doing so.

(That’s the one I saw our newborn daughter do. She swung both her arms above her head just like the signal for a touchdown. She did a BIG stretch and took a deep breath.

I was quite impressed. Before that, I thought you needed to learn to do that! Apparently not.)

Or do them all at once. Cover your mouth and stretch big and breathe in and only let your mouth open only a bit.

Here’s another quote from Andrew Newburg’s article:

“Yawning will relax you and bring you into a state of alertness faster than any other meditation technique I know of, and because it is neurologically contagious, it’s particularly easy to teach in a group setting.

One of my former students used yawning to bring her argumentative board of directors back to order in less than 60 seconds. Why? Because it helps people synchronize their behavior with others.”

Here’s a plug for his book and a bit more on who Andrew Newburg is:

"Andrew Newburg is director of Penn's Center for Spirituality and the Mind.

This essay is from the book: HOW GOD CHANGES YOUR BRAIN by Andrew Newberg, M.D. and Mark Robert Waldman. Copyright © 2009 by Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman."

I’m truly honored to bring his brilliant news to you.

I hope you find it as helpful to you as Andrew makes it sound.

It looks like he has biology and evolution to thank. And, it also looks like yawning really is that effective and easy to do for that reason.