Every day, it is more and more obvious to me how much money could be saved in healthcare by promoting meditation. First of all, meditation could help cut down on patient visits and psychosomatic complaints. Then of course there are all the stress-related conditions that can be helped by meditation. (More info on meditation for [...]
Stress
Emergency Stress Relief
When you’re stressed, it is so tempting to fantasize about being not stressed. You imagine feeling peaceful and relaxed later–when you get home from work, or when this project is finished, or when this exam is over, or when you get to the beach, or maybe when the kids grow up, or maybe when you [...]
Take the Vow 2012: The Stress Stops Here
Last year, for National Stress Awareness Month, I published a series of articles here about how stress can be contagious. And I asked readers to vow not to pass their stress on to others for one day. This year, for National Stress Awareness Day, I want to raise the stakes. I want you to take [...]
How to Have a Happy Hurricane
Let me be brief, as there is a hurricane coming and I have lots to do. But I really need to say this: Over the last two days, I have heard many politicians and emergency officials on the East Coast reminding us to be “smart” or “cautious.” But I wish that one of them would [...]
Is Stress Contagious?
For National Stress Awareness Month, I wrote two articles here about how we pick up stress from others and pass it on–what I called “stresscalation.” I argued that we have an ethical obligation to stop our own role in this stresscalation. But could we also play a role in stopping the stresscalation that we find [...]
The Stress Stops Here
When we pass stress on to others, we create a more stressful world. It doesn’t matter how we got stressed in the first place, or whose fault it was originally. As soon as we’re stressed, it is our responsibility, and what we do with it is up to us. When we bring our stress forward, [...]
