“Pain is part of life, suffering is optional.” Last week I heard this phrase used so many times in a workshop that it began to sound like a bumper sicker slogan. It’s catchy and it stuck. I sat with this idea for over a week contemplating why there is the experience suffering in my [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Pain is part of life, suffering is optional!
Posted in Introspective, spiritual, tagged compassion, Lifestyle, Living on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Powerful Stress Relief
Posted in Lifestyle, tagged Lifestyle, Living, stephen d. rogers on July 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Are you stressed?
In our not too distant past, we humans were under much different external threats than we are today, such as being eaten by wild animals and violence from hostile invaders. Thankfully, today those life threatening stressors are almost non-existent. However, our bodies still respond to stress in the same way as when [...]
Heal Stress Naturally!
Posted in Informational, Useful, tagged adaptogens, adrenals, biological support for growth, health, herbs, natural living, spiritual development, stress, stress management, supplement on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stress, depending on how we metabolize it, can either be eu-stress, a healthy motivating influence, or dis-stress, an inhibiting diseased syndrome. The latter, distress, is the number one cause of disease within the body.
Looking at distress can be stressful, so let’s keep things simple.
From a biological perspective, stress produces chemical reactions internally. These chemical reactions [...]
