Bringing Balance and Stress Relief To Businesses & Individuals
July 2009
Stress Relief Choices is both a resource for stress management information and a training company specializing in offering workshops on stress reduction and well-being.
It is our mission here at Stress-Relief-Choices.com to help you combat stress with the latest articles, videos, services and ideas. It is our goal to empower you to see that the choices you make determine how stress affects you.
What's New In July?
Free Stress Management MP3 Download: As a gift to visitors of Stress Relief Choices you can now download an MP3 for managing your stress.
This MP3 was recorded by the founder of Stress Relief Choices, Piers Cross, to be listened to while at work or at a time when you need some stress relief.
Put it onto your MP3 player, find a spot at work or at home and enjoy...
Children's Stories: If you are looking to help relieve stress with your children then you can download children's stories which help with relaxation and well-being. They are also a great way of teaching children to use their imagination.
What Stress Relief Choices Do You Have?
On this website you will find a multitude of choices: from meditation to exercise, and from tips with how to deal with workplace stress to how breathing well can change your life.
The workshops that the company offers are for both individuals and businesses in the Leeds/ Manchester area in the UK.
These workshops are a chance to learn hands-on stress relief techniques to not only reduce your own stress levels but also those with whom you interact with: from colleagues to parents, family to friends.
Start Dealing With Stress Now
If you are suffering from stress, don't put off dealing with it. Unchecked, stress can affect your health and your well-being.
Companies nowadays are legally obliged to take action with stress and it is in their interests to do so. Why? A stress-free workplace is more efficient, more balanced and ultimately more productive.
How Can We Help?
• This website is full of useful tips on stress relief: from how to meditate to what techniques you can use. Please scroll down this page for a full listing and index of the site.
• We run regular stress management workshops both in-house and in a training centre in the Manchester/ Leeds area in the UK.
• We have produced a 3 week stress management CD pack which teaches you step by step how to reduce stress in your life.
• We also produce a regular stress relief newsletter with information on stress management and free gifts - to sign up please see below.
Relieving Stress Today Ezine
The Relieving Stress Today Ezine is a newsletter filled with techniques on how to relieve stress in your life and tools to help you cope, periodically delivered directly to your email inbox.
With your free subscription to our newsletter, you will also receive a stress management MP3 download recorded by the founder of Stress Relief Choices and 3 free ebooks which include:
• “Don’t Stress Ebook”
• “The Greatest Money Making Secret” by Joe Vitale• “Inside The Mind Of Winners Ebook”
After completing the form below, you will receive an email asking you to confirm the address given. This is just to be sure someone did not submit your email address without your knowledge.
Upon confirmation, you will receive a link to download the 3 free ebooks.
Stress Management Workshops, UK
Our training courses specialize in combating stress and promoting well-being.
"I am writing to thank you for the very enlightening and interesting day at Hebden Bridge."
Adrian Pickersgill, Schools Catering Manager, Doncaster Council
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What Is Stress?
What is the definition of stress and what are the causes of stress? A basic guide about stress and how it affects your life.
Is stress affecting your life now? Learn more about this thing called stress.
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Stress & Health
How does stress affect health? How does stress affect your overall health to be precise?
Stress seems to be the "in" word of the times but what is this phenomena actually doing to us on a physical and mental level?
A guide into what the physical and mental side effects of stress are.
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Stress Management Masterclass CDs
We have put together a 3 week CD set which guides you through the process of taking charge of stress. This CD package teaches you how to meditate, how to do walking meditation and the art of affirmations.
We guide you through the processes and help you set up a plan for balancing out your life - teaching you the tools to succeed in reducing your stress.
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How Meditation Improves Stress Levels
Meditation is the ultimate tool in stress management. It clears your mind and relaxes your body.
Learn about how to meditate, how meditation benefits the health, meditation techniques, guided meditation, guided relaxations and why you should be practicing meditation if you want lower stress levels.
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Breathing for Well-Being
Breathing is a tool that you have at your fingertips in every moment. How are you breathing now?
Learn how to breathe for stress relief, breathing exercises, breathing techniques, how to do deep breathing and why breathing through your nose will help you to relax even more deeply.
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Workplace Stress
Work stress accounts for an estimated 13.5 million lost working days in Britain in 2007/08 alone.
Learn more about stress at work, what you can do to lower your stress in the workplace, techniques for dealing with work related stress and tools for stress management in the workplace. We also look at computer stress, and stress management for teachers and nurses.
If you have had an
accident at work, are stressed about it and want more information about what you can do then the following resources about the legalities of personal injury will be of help.
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Stress & Exercise
Exercise is a great way to balance out the stresses and strains of modern life.
Explore different exercises from yoga to tai chi, and from swimming to walking. What are the health benefits of exercise and why does it work so well in stress relief?
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What Are Your Stress Relief Stories?
Have you made any choices about stress and would like to share what you have learned with other people? We are looking at publishing positive articles about how people are coping with stress.
How have you coped? What has made a difference in your life? If you want to share your story with others please contact us with your story and if it is suitable we will publish it. We look forward to hearing from you...
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Stress Relief Blog
This blog looks at stress in everyday life and how we can deal with it. From how to cope with stress in holiday times to stress at work, this blog will be a great help to reducing levels of stress
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About the Author of Stress Relief Choices
To find out more about the author and why I decided to create Stress Relief Choices. What inspired me to write about relieving stress?
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Articles on Stress
Are you looking for articles on stress so that you can understand your own stress more fully? The following are articles which go into some depth to explain the different areas of stress.
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What is Stress? A Definition of What Stress Is.
What is stress? Stress is a reaction which occurs in the body when faced with certain situations: the fight or flight syndrome.
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Breathing: How To Become More Balanced With Your Breath
Breathing is one of the most important things a human needs for survival. But many of us don't breathe properly...
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Five Sleeping Tips To Help You Sleep Soundly
What are 5 ways you can help yourself to sleep soundly and to wake refreshed? What sleeping tips are there to cope with sleepless nights?
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Free Meditation Resource
This free meditation resource offer videos on how to meditate, guided meditations and articles.
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Downloadable Childrens Books
Downloadable MP3 childrens books to amaze, relax and relieve stress and anxiety from children.
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Being Balanced Stress Training - Teaching Individuals How To Manage Stress
A stress training course teaching individuals what they need to know about stress and how to minimise the risks of stress at work.
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Thank You For Your Donation
Thank you page
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Holiday Stress Tips. What are the ways you can reduce holiday stress?
What other ways are there to cope with holiday stress? Another article explaining some more holiday stress tips for banishing stress on holiday.
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Relieving Stress By Exercise
Relieving stress by exercise is one of the best ways of managing stress. It not only helps to ground us in our bodies but also to focus our minds on other things than thinking.
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Additional Stress Relief Resources
These additional stress relief resources are links to other websites related to stress relief and well-being.
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Reduce Holiday Stress. Tips and techniques for reducing holiday stress
What further techniques can you use to reduce holiday stress? What are the things you can implement to make your holiday more fun, more relaxing and less stressful?
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How Does Stress Affect Health?
How does stress affect health? The main effects of stress on health are both physical and psychological, and symptoms can include headaches or insomnia.
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Meditation Techniques For Stress Relief
When it comes to stress meditation is the cornerstone of any recovery. If you want a fit and stress free mind then learning these meditation techniques will help you immensely.
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The Law of Attraction
The law of attraction has a big role to play when dealing with stress. How can we use what we think about to manifest a life of ease, tranquility and infinite riches?
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Sleeping Lessons: 5 Ways To A Good Night’s Sleep
What are 5 sleeping lessons you can use to improve your sleep and reduce your levels of stress?
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Relieving Stress Today Newsletter
This is the page where you sign up for the Relieving Stress Today Newsletter. This newsletter is filled with information on how to relieve stress in your life, deliverd periodically to your inbox.
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Sleep Meditation Video. A Video To Help You Sleep Well
This free sleep meditation video will help you to calm your mind and help you to sleep well.
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Sleeping Problems? What 7 Things Can You Do To Sleep Well Tonight?
Do you have sleeping problems? Do you have trouble getting to sleep or find that you wake up in the night and can’t get back to sleep? What 7 things can you do tonight to help you sleep?
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Stress Relief Techniques. What are the best techniques for stress relief?
What are the best stress relief techniques available today? We look at meditation, breathing techniques and several other options.
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Workplace Stress. What is it and why does it effect so many?
A large proportion of our lives are spent at work. Workplace stress therefore accounts for a large proportion of the stress generated in our lives.
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Stress Affect The Body?
The effects of stress on the body can range from tight shoulders and neck to back problems. And in answering how does stress affect the body we start to see what choices can be made to reduce stress.
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Stress Headache: Five Ways of Relieving Stress Headaches
Due to the changes in the modern lifestyle people are more prone to stress headaches. What natural ways are there to deal with your stress headache easily?
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How to Contact Stress Relief Choices
If you want to contact Stress Relief Choices please use the following form.
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Stress in Nursing
There are huge levels of stress in nursing. Not only do nurses have to work in a high pressurized environment but the decisions they make can literally be life or death decisions.
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Stress Nutrition: How Does Stress Affect The Nutrition You Put In Your Body?
When you have stress nutrition intake is lowered. In what 5 ways is your nutrition intake lowered and how can you combat this?
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Stress Relief Food. 10 Magical Foods To Bring Stress Relief
We are what we eat: we eat well, we are healthy and stress free; we eat poorly, we have poor health and get stressed easily. What stress relief food is available to relieve stress?
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Stress Relief Games
What stress relief games can you use to help manage your stress levels? What are the best ways of using games to reduce your stress?
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Stress Relief Meditation - A Meditation to Relieve Stress
This stress relief meditation script and video will help to reduce your stress and center you.
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Stress Reduction Workshop
A stress reduction workshop is great way to learn hands how to manage your stress. Course covers techniques like meditation, breathing techniques and qigong.
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Stress Management Exercises: 3 Ways To Reduce Stress Today
Stress management exercises are a wonderful way of dealing with stress as it arises. Find out 3 ways to help your stress levels.
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Stress Management For Children
Stress management for children is really important nowadays. What can you do as a parent to help them?
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Stress Management for Nurses
There are huge amounts of stress in nursing but what can nurses do about this? The following stress management for nurses article goes into some depth to explain some stress relief techniques.
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Stress Management for Teachers
Teaching is becoming more challenging as a profession: more paperwork, more bureaucracy and more unruly classes. This stress management for teachers article outlines 7 ways to deal with stress.
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A Visualization Meditation For Stress Relief
This visualization meditation video is 5 minutes and takes you on a wonderful journey. There is also a script that you can record onto an MP3 player. Relax, unwind and enjoy...
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What is Holiday Stress and Why Do We Get So Stressed on Holiday
Holiday stress seems to affect a lot of people nowadays. You work so hard all year and the last thing you want is to get stressed on holiday. What is holiday stress and why do you get so stressed?
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Meditation Tips
What meditation tips are there to help you to improve your meditaiton and to gain more relaxation, health benefits and stress relief from your practice?
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How To Relieve Stress
How to relieve stress? What are the three best techniques and tools you can use today to relieve your stress?
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Natural Sleep Aids
If you have trouble sleeping then natural sleep aids can be a positive way of getting to sleep. What are the top 7 sleep aids?
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Whole Foods For Health
Whole foods are grains and vegetables which have not be processed and therefore still have a lot of vitamins and minerals. Which wholefoods are best for the health?
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Benefits of Meditation
The benefits of meditation are wide ranging: from slowing the heart rate down to helping with concentration and memory. But what other benefits does meditation have?
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Laughing Yoga - How Laughter Helps to De-Stress
Laughter has been long been considered a wonderful form of medicine. A new phenomena called laughing yoga is sweeping the world. What are the health benefits of laughter and how do you practice it?
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Cultivating Patience: A Key To Overcoming Stress
Patience is something that many people want to cultivate but how many times have you not felt that you were patient enough? How can you cultivate this?
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Exam Stress: Q & A About Exams and Stress
Exam stress is something that affects most of us at one point or another in our lives. The following is a Q & A about stress and exams.
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To Donate To Stress Relief Choices
This page is for people who wish to donate towards the running of the website and for the information which is given.
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