Stress is a psychological and physical response to a threat or upsetting event that kicks the body’s defenses into high gear in a biological way, known as the “fight-or-flight” response. This flight-or-fight response results in tense muscles, a pounding heart, and fast breathing and was originally used by our early ancestors to ready themselves against a [...]

Studies show time and time again when you eat right and avoid caffeine, alcohol, and sugar, you feel less stress and more relaxed. To help you achieve less stress, here are some of the best tension and stress reducing foods. In addition, these stress reducing foods offer high levels of antioxidants, B vitamins, and calcium, [...]

Everyone experiences stress or tension at one time or another. Furthermore, stress and tension cause us to feel unhappy and sometimes at a loss. Assistant professor, Dr. Pamela Peeke, of the University of Maryland in Baltimore, claims the best way to handle stress is to achieve “daily pockets of peace” rather than trying to grab [...]

ou’ve heard the old saying, “laughter is the best medicine.” Well, that saying has taken on a whole new meaning after a doctor from India, Madan Kataria, known as the “Guru of Giggling,” developed laughter yoga in 1995. He discovered it didn’t matter if laughter was real or simulated because people would breathe, take in [...]