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Too much bad stress, too often can make you sick.  How do you relieve tension and anxiety?

Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.

— Astrid Alauda

With apologies to Paul Simon’s 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, take a listen and let his music inspire your creative release of whatever tensions plague you.  Of course, the problem isn’t all inside your head – bad stress permeates your body, your heart and your soul… and it’s as damaging as can be.  Shaking off your stress is well worth the struggle.

Stress is the trash of modern life – we all generate it but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.

— Terri Guillemets

There Must Be 50 Ways to Shake Off Your Stress

1. Just slip out the back, Jack.
2. Make a new plan, Stan.
3. Bake some bread – beat that dough into submission!
4. Learn to forgive. Really, do it, forgiveness matters!
5. Make funny faces to a mirror.
6. Yawn on purpose.  Do it again.
7. Remove yourself from the situation. (Hop on the bus, Gus.)
8. Turn on a radio talk show, talk back or mimic the commentators.
9. Help someone who needs help.
10. Take off your shoes and soak your feet. Continue reading » 50 Ways to Shake Off Your Stress