I recently picked up THE THREE MINUTE MEDITATOR and while the title kind of stresses me out, in fact the book is a very down to earth, lovely exploration of how to incorporate mental relaxation and meditation into the middle of your stressful life. There’s a long discussion of the fight/flight reflex, and how meditation can take you out of that cycle.

Taking a step back and unplugging from the Internet is also a big stress buster for me — though the Internet is an incredible resource (exhibit A: this blog!) there are times when all of the information overload just adds to the general stress level. I find that when I unplug I sleep much better and my mind can calm down more easily.

Thanks again,
Michele

True Sandra, but if you think about it, you were basically freewriting. You let the emotions flow onto the page an d worked “with” stress not against it. What often happens is we are stressed, but then we are forcing the writing and being hypercritical instead of just letting go and letting all that come out with the idea that we will worry about edits later. Make sense?