De-Stress Yourself in the Lap of Nature at Alabama Cabins

Making a trip successful depends entirely on the individual. It requires planning in advance the destination that you want to visit, proper budgeting and above all apt research. Let us talk in more general terms. Most of the people want to visit an isolated place. Your excursion can be mystical or a hunt for adventure that you were deprived of in your regular hectic schedule. Alabama cabins befit the requirements of all those, who want to seek some relaxing moments far away from the harassing world. Isolated locations, beautiful islands, sandy beaches will definitely give a vent to the child inside you, who wants to be free. Let us find out how and where you can find such Alabama cabins. As mentioned earlier, the basic idea behind Alabama cabins is to offer the tourists is solitude, but, not at the cost of essential amenities. It means you want to have all the pleasures of being at home. These days, Alabama cabins, condos, villas, apartments are superseding other options like hotels etc. The reason for this is that the above mentioned modes of residing promises comfort, affordability, fun, adventure, so that you can enjoy to the fullest brim. With Alabama cabins, you can have nearly all the facilities of a home. You will have the benefit of beautiful décor, trendy furniture, home made dainty dishes, ample space unlike those congested hotel rooms. Your comfort is the major concern and that is what every one looks up to in a vacation. You can stretch your self on the couch spending hours watching your favorite DVD’s and tapping your feet to your favorite music. And if you prefer home made dishes, Alabama cabins are just for you, for it offers the benefit of attached kitchen. You will have a parking lot of your own. Additionally, you will have abundant choice regarding the number of bedrooms. Are you surprised with the number of plural mentioned here? But, this is true; you can choose a place as per the number of your family members. You can locate Alabama cabins through online mode of search. It can replace any hotel or resort in al aspects. Whether it is about price or comfort, Alabama cabins are the best. You may find Alabama cabins near beaches, with green belt surroundings, exquisite view of sea and many more. For all such purpose, you have to make effective search and find the most apt deal of Alabama cabins.
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Sylvestor Johnson is offering loan and rental advice for quite some time. He is working as financial consultant for ThinkRentals. To find Alabama cabins, Condo rentals, Rental homes, Vacation rentals, Beach house vacation rentals that best suits your needs visit http://www.thinkrentals.com

Does Stress Lead to Increased Diabetes Risk?

It is believed that improperly unmanaged stress is a major determinant in almost all illness conditions. Does stress also leads to diabetes? Let us investigate. There are two major types of diabetes: type 1 diabetes mellitus and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Type 1 diabetes mellitus is also known as juvenile diabetes because it starts in children and young adults. It is due to insufficient amount of insulin being produced (known as insulin deficiency). Since it does not start later in life, we can safely conclude that type 1 diabetes mellitus is unlikely to be caused by stress. Type 2 diabetes mellitus usually occurs later in life, after the age of forty. Type 2 diabetes mellitus is the most common form of diabetes. In type 2 diabetes mellitus, the problems arise because 1. Either the body does not produce enough insulin, or 2. The insulin produced is ignored by the cells in the body (known as insulin resistance), or both. Discussion on what insulin is and what the roles it plays is in order. Insulin is a hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism (and to some extent fat metabolism as well). Insulin helps the body to use sugar. Sugar is the basic source of energy for the cells in the body, and insulin takes the sugar from the blood into the cells. When we say blood sugar, we refer to glucose in the blood. Glucose is the main type of simple sugar in our blood. Our body needs to have glucose level controlled to within a narrow range (0.7-1.1 mg per ml). Below 0.7 mg per ml is termed "hypoglycemia", and above 1.8 mg per ml is termed "hyperglycemia". Both can result in problems as we shall see later. When there is more glucose in the blood, more insulin is secreted into the blood, resulting in cells (muscle cells, red blood cells and fat cells) absorbing the glucose out of the blood, thus reducing the blood glucose level. When there is less glucose in the blood, more glucagon (counter part of insulin) is secreted into the blood, stimulating liver to release the glucose it has stored in its cells into the blood stream, thus increasing blood glucose. Glucagon also induces the liver and some of the muscle cells to produce glucose out of protein. If the glucose does not go into cells, instead it builds up in the blood, two problems arise. Firstly, if the cells do not get the glucose they need, they die. Secondly, prolong period of high blood glucose levels may hurt your eyes, kidneys, nerves or heart. Insulin is used to treat this "hyperglycemia" aspect of diabetes. "Hypoglycemia" or low blood glucose level condition can happen when more insulin is introduced than there is food in the stomach to be acted on. This often happens when a patient injects insulin in anticipation of food consumption, but the food consumption is delayed or insufficient food is consumed. Symptoms of "hypoglycemia" include strange behavior, clumsy or jerky movements, seizure, confusion, tingling sensations around the mouth, dizziness, sweating, headache etc. Now that we understand the mechanics of diabetes, is there anything to suggest that stress can cause diabetes (type 2)? The usual reason explaining where stress lead to sickness is the weakening of our immunity system caused by stress. However, diabetes is not caused by weak immunity system. Psychological stress caused by the death of a spouse, a financial crisis or other life-altering event has been associated with higher risk of developing diabetes in middle age. Many studies have shown that the abovementioned types of major life events were associated with type 2 diabetes regardless of family history of the disease, exercise or alcohol use. However, although such circumstantial evidence seems to suggest a link between a higher proportion of people under greater stress and diabetes, we cannot conclude that stress cause diabetes. There is a theory that says that stressful life events increase the diabetes risk by increasing levels of the hormone cortisol and decreasing levels of sex steroids such as testosterone, which have been shown to influence the action of insulin. Some researchers have tried to determine whether stress, which can be measured using the ratio cortisol:testosterone, affects insulin resistance. In the prospective study by George Davey Smith and colleagues from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, cortisol:testoterone ratio was positively associated with IHD (ischemic heart disease) mortality and incidence. Adjustment for potential socioeconomic and behavioral confounding variables had little influence on these associations, but they appeared to be mediated by components of the insulin resistance syndrome (elevated blood pressure, triglyceride levels, body mass index, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and impaired glucose tolerance). This suggests that methods of reducing the cortisol:testoterone ratio may improve insulin resistance and reduce the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD). But, it does not suggest that reducing stress can reduce the risk of diabetes. More conclusive research findings will be needed before we can conclude that stress does indeed lead to diabetes.
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Jacob Gan PhD (Michigan) has more than 20 years of teaching experience in a university and 8 years of business/industrial experience. He writes for http://succezz.com, http://JacobGan.com, http://JacobEducation.com and http://jacobLearning.com.

Manage Stress by Twelve Golden Habits

Above are twelve best and tested habits that one should develop for oneself to keep stress, depression and anxiety out of life. Please not that develop these habits and change oneself is not immediate process but ongoing process even one can develop some of these habits in life can make deference with life • Develop a habit of prioritize things in order and work everything as per priorities. Do one thing at a time it will manage your stress • Best habit one should develop to live stress free life is make every thing planed and it will decrease no of surprises in life. Surprises are one of major factor for stress less surprises are best factor to manage stress • Live like a bird and wakeup early in the morning and sleep early at night and stay relieved from stress • Limit our expectations from others because over expectation from others or life are major source of stress. This habit will reduce your stress at great level • Try to live life as simple as possible and stay away from addiction like cigarettes, alcohol or drugs or at least control it. Keep in mind that these addictions are part of the problem not solutions. • Develop a habit of meet new people and develop a new relationships and kick out every bit of shyness or fear of meeting people • Try to help other who are in need if possible. This will help you to manage stress • Develop a habit of daily 45 minutes of exercises and yoga. If not possible then at least walk for 45 minutes everyday. It is best habit and remedy for almost every stress related diseases. Breath as deep as possible. • Try to be financially as secure as possible. In modern world financial insecurity is one of major or only cause of stress. Develop a habit of savings at least 20% of income and manage stress by feeling financially secure • If you are victim of anxiety disorder or panic attacks then always keep in mind that Fear of anxiety is always bigger then fear itself. Always hope for best and ready for worst • Kick out habit of compare someone or wealth of someone with yourself. In modern world this is one of the major source of stress • Relieve your self from every bit of jealousy or grudge you feel for anyone. Try to make your line bigger instead of erase line of other. This habit will even destroy every bit stress from your life
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Sedrik Pet have developed exlusive techniques to coping with stress and more of his work can be found on http://www.copingstress.org

How to Turn Your Stressful Day Around Instantly

What do you do when your day becomes so stressful that you would love to just jump on a plane to get away from it all, like the airline commercials. How can you turn your day around and continue with self confidence? Here are a couple of suggestions to turn your day aound instantly from a stressful, I want to get away from it all day, to a day that you can continue on in a self confident and more relaxed and efficient way. First of all, try to free or empty your mind by using any one or a combination of these 12 suggestions. 1) try diverting your senses by listening to music that makes you feel good, by lighting a great smelling candle, by taking a bubble bath (if you are at home), or filling the room with a favorite scent 2) get rid of the drama in your head that is giving you negative thoughts 3) by lightly tapping the area between your eyebrows and thinking in detail a very pleasant memory 4) by being silent, feeling and concentrating on peaceful thoughts, and turning off any other noisy distracting, if possible 5) by taking a break and doing something else for a little while 6) by writing down your concerns on a to do list so that you will remember which things need to be taken care of next or on your to do list for the next day or two 7) by using color therapy. Stare at a cheerful color, for instance, yellow for 30 seconds and wear that color or place an object with that color on your table or desk and throughout your day when you look at it, use it as a cue to relax 8) watch a comedy on TV or read the comics or a short, funny story 9) do breathing exercises, by taking a deep breath to the count of 3, holding it for a count of 3, and then exhaling it completely Secondly, you need to move your body. Here are 3 suggestions that you can try. 1) pretend you are a robot and then a rag doll by tensing every muscle in your body and after holding for a count of 4 seconds let everything go and relax until your body feels totally relaxed 2) by pressing your palms together in a prayer position, fingers up, with your elbows lifed for 10 seconds and then releasing it. Repeat it 2 more times 3) by doing chair yoga. While sitting with your fingers interlaced behind your head, relax your elbows and shoulders, smile, breathe deeply and stretch your elbows back. Focus on releasing the tightness in your arms and shoulders. Next time, you feel all stressed out or feel like hopping on a plane to get away from it all, try the suggestions above and soon you will feel more relaxed and less stressed out. You will then be able to continue your day with a more relaxed, efficient, and self confident day.
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Lena Tucker is the founder of come visit http://www.successinlifeandmoney.com right now!

Self-esteem and Curing Stress and Burnout

A simplified definition many people often use for the word “self-esteem” is that it’s “How we feel about ourselves.” But self-esteem includes broader and more important parts of ourselves, so I would prefer to define it this way: High, or natural self-esteem is manifested in a wonderful feeling of inner-balance, grounded on self-acceptance and a healthy, comforting self-respect towards yourself. This is very different from self-confidence which is grounded in what you know you can deal with and accomplish. We can, for example, act in a very self-confident manner without our having high self-esteem. High self-esteem is knowing who we are and living in harmony with ourselves without needing to have the approval of others. So what does the connection between self-esteem and stress/burnout look like? We become negatively stressed when we force ourselves to continue working, even though our bodies have already let us know we’re operating on our emergency reserves. Most of us have a certain level of stress tolerance. However, our usual, everyday level of stress-tolerance significantly expands when we press ourselves to do something we want to do. Conversely, it shrinks when we press ourselves to do something we feel we must do. One of the root-causes to this kind of negative stress and eventual burnout is very often the result of a conflict taking place inside us between our inner child* and inner-parent that has not been taken care of. It’s often related to our being too strict towards ourselves, which adds a special debilitating source of stress into our lives (This unresolved inner-relationship lowers our self-esteem, though not necessarily our self-confidence – but in either event, it takes up a great deal of our reserve energy– energy we may need to meet unforeseen outside stress factors). In short, such unresolved inner-conflicts increase both stress and susceptibility – and if we’re not careful, they can even lead to our becoming physically ill. To everyone in a burnout situation, or with a tendency to burnouts, I recommend that you take care of your self-esteem (which also includes taking care of your inner-child and his-or-her needs), in order to meet situations like these with a deeper and higher awareness whenever they occur. Such expanded awareness gives us the clarity to make the choices and take the actions that will serve us best. Taking care of our self-esteem requires gaining knowledge that we don’t ordinarily encounter in our daily lives. It’s about becoming familiar with, and learning to rely on, the signals that come from our body and our soul as much as those that come to us from the outside real-world we are all trained to deal with. It’s also about getting to understand how this knowledge fits together and how it relates to us, personally, so we can use it in a way that helps us, because it takes into account all the facts about the particular situation we find ourself in. It’s at this point, that we first begin to build a foundation and feel that we have a true self-esteem that reflects our intrinsic self-worth as a human being. Now we're able to give ourselves time to develop, in a natural way, an approach to life that takes into account both worlds and keeps us from negative stress and burnout. Taking care of our self-esteem requires some effort and courage, but it’s well worth it. The rewards are peace of mind, increased well-being, harmony – and a fantastic ability to create long-term success for ourselves, with less effort and more joy. When we first begin to look inside ourselves, many of us feel a little uncomfortable and try out different “shortcuts” to avoid going to the roots of our self-esteem issues. My experience is that these “shortcuts” only lead us away from living life to its fullest because our low self-esteem is still there and, as before, constantly works to undermine our sense of self-worth. We once came to this world to live in happiness and harmony. Deep inside, we all know this, because one of the deepest desires we have in common as human beings is to bring peace of mind into our lives. We all have the ability to reach this state, no matter what our background. We have a “secret” source of Self-esteem and trust within ourselves that can accomplish this. So one of the most important things we can do for ourselves is to find this source. Many people who seek to control their surroundings are afraid of their inner reality – but, in fact, it’s only when we begin to learn about our inner-world that we come closer to something that resembles control over our own lives. It’s then, and only then, that inner forces begin to lose their power to take unseen control over our lives. *Inner child: As children and teenagers we were vulnerable to what went on in our family life and our immediate surroundings. In the event of painful incidents or constantly repeated patterns of being rejected, unseen or insulted, the little child/teenager’s feelings, reactions and images tend to remain in the unconscious memory. This denied and hurt child/teenager (our fears) will live its life inside of us and unconsciously determine how we perceive the world and our self-image - until we take care of it. These “selves” of children and teenagers are submerged personality-states of who we are, they can play a greater or lesser role throughout our lives and sometimes lie wholly at the root of our actions and reactions without our being aware ot it Copyright Julia Nestler 2007. All Rights Reserved.
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Julia Nestler is a Personal Self-improvement Trainer and Author of the breakthrough book, "How To Find The Secrets To Your self-esteem" http://www.self-esteemnow.com

How Does Stress Affect Health?

Many are now asking the question, "How does stress affect health?" If you too are asking then you have taken the first step to dramatically improving your health. Some health experts are convinced that stress is the largest health problem in America. However, this often goes unnoticed because the damage stress does to our health often gets blamed on other diseases and conditions. One study said that 75% of all visits to primary care physicians are stress-related. How Does Stress Affect Health? - It's In The Immune System So, how does stress affect health? Well, as you probably already know, your body's immune system is what keeps you healthy from all kinds of diseases, from relatively benign ones like the common cold to more serious ones like bronchitis. People who get sick all the time probably have weak immune systems while those who rarely get sick most likely have strong and powerful immune systems. What few people know is that stress, and more importantly chronic stress, actually weakens the immune system, thereby limiting its ability to fight off even the most harmless of illnesses. This should shed a lot of light on the question of how does stress affect health. Someone who gets a cold every other week may just think they are unlucky or just happen to always be around people who have colds. This is not so. Someone with a strong immune system could be ingesting cold viruses all day long but they never get a cold because their immune system is capable of destroying them. So, if you get a lot of colds you may in fact not be managing your stress effectively. There are other answers to the question of how does stress affect health. For example, there is an immune system protein called interleukin-6. People under serious stress have been found to have much higher levels of this protein than people under little or no stress. Interleukin-6 in large amounts has been associated with various diseases like some cancers, infections, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, osteoporosis and heart disease. Can you believe that? Who would have thought that this answers the question of how does stress affect health. Another part of the problem in answering the question of how does stress affect health is that people don't truly understand exactly what stress is. If you ask most people, they may respond by saying stress is caused by worrying about something like money. This is not entirely true. Acute stress is easier to recognize because you can feel it right now. On the other hand, chronic stress is more subtle. For example, all people experience some stress after any big life change, including getting married. Getting married is a wonderful and joyful event for people so they are not aware that it is also bringing with it a certain level of stress. It's just harder to notice. However, that stress will still inflict harm on your immune system. So you can see that asking the question of how does stress affect health is so important. Asking, "How does stress affect health?" is an important questions for you to start asking because it may be causing you serious health problems with you even knowing. The next question you should ask is "How do I effectively relieve stress?"
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5 Minutes A Day To Stress Management

Stress can seriously affect your health and your relationships. It is essential to find ways to decrease and prevent stressful incidents and even more importantly, decrease your negative reactions to stress. Here are some of the things that can be done for five minutes a day everyday until you have mastered stress. Most of life is basically a routine to follow like brushing your teeth or eating breakfast. You can do a few of them in a longer span of time than five minutes, but as they say-- every minute counts. Managing time Time management skills can allow you more time with your family and friends and possibly increase your performance and productivity. This will help reduce your stress. To improve your time management: Save time by focusing and concentrating, delegating, and scheduling time for yourself. Keep a record of how you spend your time, including work, family, and leisure time. Prioritize your time by rating tasks by importance and urgency. Redirect your time to those activities that are important and meaningful to you. Manage your commitments by not over- or undercommitting. Don't commit to what is not important to you. Deal with procrastination by using a day planner, breaking large projects into smaller ones, and setting short-term deadlines. Examine your beliefs to reduce conflict between what you believe and what your life is like. Build healthy coping strategies It is important that you identify your coping strategies. One way to do this is by recording the stressful event, your reaction, and how you cope in a stress journal. With this information, you can work to change unhealthy coping strategies into healthy ones-those that help you focus on the positive and what you can change or control in your life. Lifestyle Some behaviors and lifestyle choices affect your stress level. They may not cause stress directly, but they can interfere with the ways your body seeks relief from stress. Try to: Balance personal, work, and family needs and obligations. Have a sense of purpose in life. Get enough sleep, since your body recovers from the stresses of the day while you are sleeping. Eat a balanced diet for a nutritional defense against stress. Get moderate exercise throughout the week. Limit your consumption of alcohol. Don't smoke. Social support Social support is a major factor in how we experience stress. Social support is the positive support you receive from family, friends, and the community. It is the knowledge that you are cared for, loved, esteemed, and valued. More and more research indicates a strong relationship between social support and better mental and physical health. Changing thinking When an event triggers negative thoughts, you may experience fear, insecurity, anxiety, depression, rage, guilt, and a sense of worthlessness or powerlessness. These emotions trigger the body's stress, just as an actual threat does. Dealing with your negative thoughts and how you see things can help reduce stress. Thought-stopping helps you stop a negative thought to help eliminate stress. Disproving irrational thoughts helps you to avoid exaggerating the negative thought, anticipating the worst, and interpreting an event incorrectly. Problem solving helps you identify all aspects of a stressful event and find ways to deal with it. Changing your communication style helps you communicate in a way that makes your views known without making others feel put down, hostile, or intimidated. This reduces the stress that comes from poor communication. Use the assertiveness ladder to improve your communication style. Even writers like me can get stressed even though we're just using our hands to do the talking, but having to sit for 7 or 8 hours is already stressful enough and have our own way to relieve stress. Whether you're the mail guy, the CEO, or probably the average working parent, stress is one unwanted visitor you would love to boot out of your homes, especially your life. by Ron Huxley, LMFT http://angertoolbox.com http://parentingtoolbox.com
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Ron Huxley is a child and family therapist, author and father of four. Get more stress management resources today at http://parentingtoolbox.com/join.html