Welcome to my new blog about Stress Management


Hello


I'm Lyn and I'm a Holistic Counsellor.  My passion is facilitating healing and wellbeing to people dealing with life's stressful demands.

 I am fascinated and curious about how people make sense of their world, especially in a time of stress.  I hold the strong belief that every person is to be valued and the body, mind and spirit is interconnected. As a result, there is no single approach that fits everyone.

 My skills include trauma and grief counselling, family therapy, existential counselling, meditation, visualisation, shiatsu, cranial sacral therapy and reiki.

 As an artist, intuitive, creative thinker and avid reader, I use my eclectic mix of skills and experiences to facilitate stress management workshops which are creative, experiential, interactive and informative.

 I look forward to helping you and please follow me on Facebook for tips, inspiration and more.

 Lyn

Location: Melbourne VIC, Australia

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How Mindfulness Can Relieve Stress

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Mindfulness can relieve stress by staying in the present moment Has this ever happened to you? You have driven a short distance in your car and suddenly realised you have no recollection of how you got from A to B. You navigated traffic but can't recall any of it because your mind was elsewhere Most of us will recognise how easily our mind wanders off on its own. What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is the capacity to be fully aware of your thoughts, feelings and sensations in the present moment, without judging there is a right or wrong way to think or feel, but accepting what is, for now. It takes some practice but mindfulness can be very helpful to managing stress. The present If you think about your life as a timeline, made up of present moments, then this moment as you are reading this, is probably okay. Some moments can be painful but usually the present moment is okay. The problem is our attention leaves the present moment quite frequently because our mind h...
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Have you ever thought about changing your attitude as a way of managing stress?

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Quote by Hans Selye Changing a stressful situation is often out of our realm of control, and we can’t change how other people think or make people behave differently.  There are some situations we have no ability to ‘fix’. Just as blasting the horn and banging on the steering wheel isn’t going to make the traffic move any faster.  Some things are not within our power to control. We do however, have the choice of how we are going to respond to any stressful situation. Attitude is a choice Every morning you wake up, you get to decide which attitude you will choose for the day. You can choose a negative attitude or a positive one.  It’s your choice.   To get you thinking about it, let me share with you one thing I’ve discovered in my life which I know to be true.  Negativity attracts negativity.  When you go into your day expecting things to go wrong, they probably will.  Conversely the opposite is also true, a positive attitude seems ...
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Can Stress Be Good For Us At Work?

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Can stress be good for you at work? Most of us who have been under pressure and often overwhelmed or drained by our workload would have difficulty in believing stress can be good for us.  Well, there is a lot of documented evidence suggesting that some stress can even be healthy. The key is what happens in the brain when we are stressed. Researchers at Berkeley University (Kaufer and Kirby) have discovered that moderately stressful events can actually be good for us.  Short spurts of stress can have a positive effect on the body and mind in two major ways. Keeps the brain sharp Exposure to moderate stress challenges the brain to seek ways to adapt to the stressful event.  The brain responds by producing and growing more brain cells. The result is the brain is more alert, and of course we perform and function much better when we are alert. Boosts the Immune System Stress triggers the primitive ‘flight or fight’ response in the brain, which in turn produces...
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