11 Easy Stress Reduction Techniques
11 Easy Stress Reduction
Techniques You Can Implement
in Just 5 Minutes or Less,
Guaranteed!
Dear Business Builder,
TGIF! At the end of an extra busy week, Friday shows up to make it all better. I’m visualizing sleeping in late … breakfast in bed … and lounging around reading the newspaper from cover to cover … hours of sweet relaxation.
Who am I kidding? It’ll never happen; my three year old will make sure of it. Chances are better she’ll have a long list of Mommy do’s and the commands will start as soon as her cute, sleepy, little head leaves the pillow early Saturday morning.
She and her eight year old sister will keep me hopping most of the day and we’ll play in between loads of laundry, endless housework and trips to the market on Saturday and more laundry, yard work and trips to Home Depot on Sunday. It’s virtual non-stop activity the whole weekend. Such is life in the McManus household and most every other household with kids and two working parents, I suspect.
They’ll wrestle with bedtime (but Mom I don’t have school tomorrow) … procrastinate about getting in the bathtub (but Dad I took a bath yesterday) … and stage a hunger strike at dinnertime (I don’t like meatloaf, I want McDonalds) … these two are harder to please than my toughest clients.
And don’t even get me started about the world’s two most annoying cats! Anyone have a burlap sack and some heavy bricks I can borrow?
Note to enraged cat lovers: No nasty comments please, I’m kidding!
All that and running a business can only add up to one thing … STRESS!
Oh Please, Just Give Me
5 Minutes of Peace!
And in a miracle of US Postal Service efficiency, my 5 minutes of salvation arrived in a 6” x 9” brown bubble envelope. But before I explain, let me back up a bit and set the stage.
I was having a couple of really stressful weeks. I’d put my youngest daughter in a highly regarded new Montessori preschool and it had taken a few weeks to get her settled in. My workload was rapidly increasing and I was in between two back-to-back conferences and had only a couple days to get my work caught up in between when the phone calls started …
My daughter had kicked the teacher and I needed to come pick her up. Then, the next day I got another phone call … only this time she had bit the teacher and I had to pick her up immediately. Plus, they wanted to have a parent/teacher conference to discuss her behavior at school. Who can blame them?!
Now, I’m sure you’re all laughing by now thinking you had a few teachers in school that you would have liked to bite … but at the time I was completely stressed out. What had happened that took my usually happy-go-lucky kid and turned her into a little hellion with an ax to grind with her new teacher all in the matter of a few weeks?!
Oh man, I didn’t have time for this! Plus always quick to overreact, I started having visions of men in white coats and hours of therapy sessions when my husband so plainly stated, “I bet she’s bored.” And just like that a light bulb went off in my head. It made perfect sense and her new teacher agreed.
And so it was, her new Montessori school was such a drastic difference from her previous school and there just wasn’t enough activity to keep her busy and engaged. The change in curriculum left her too much time to get in trouble. So it turned out Montessori just wasn’t for her.
A quick phone call to her old school and a quick change of plan set it all straight and now I have my happy kid back. But while it was happening, I was stressed out and beside myself.
5 Minute Stress Reduction & Peak Performance
Program Helps Me through the Bump in the Road
No doubt life throws you curve balls. And it just so happened that during my recent curve my good friend and fellow marketer Bob Serling asked me if I would be interested in reviewing a brand new stress reduction program by world renowned psychologist and best selling author Dr. Brian Alman. The timing couldn’t have been better.
So, I said yes and the little 6”x 9” envelope of stress-relieving salvation showed up in my mailbox just a few days later.
And as a busy professional with a very full life, I was extremely thankful to find two CDs of about 30 minutes each. Not a 300 page workbook and 12 CDs of several hours a piece that would take me weeks to review and implement … if I ever found the time.
Maybe I would (as the CD cover claimed) be able to reduce my stress and achieve my goals quickly and permanently in only 5 minutes a day. I was hopeful!
I spent the next three day’s listening to Dr. Alman’s soothing voice as he explained his simple stress reduction techniques in my car on the way to the ETR conference last week.
And the best part is Dr. Alman’s techniques actually were really quick and easy to learn … perfect for a busy business owner, entrepreneur or parent. And, after the first time I listened, I was able to instantly reduce my stress at the very moment I felt my chest tighten and my breathing become shallow during a stressful situation. Wow … maybe there was something to this!
And after listening several times in my car, I was able to easily recall and put into action the quick “less than 5 minute” techniques that helped me put any stressful situation into perspective so I could truly see it for what it was and stop it dead in its tracks.
One of my favorite techniques and one that is so easy to recall and visualize right in the moment or time of need is what Dr. Alman calls the “Movie of Your Life” or the “15th row critic” technique. It instantly allows you to recognize your own critic within and take quick and simple steps to silence the voice in your head that likes to remind you you’re not good enough, or smart enough to achieve your goals. You know the voice I’m talking about … the one that likes to sabotage you.
In all Dr. Brian Alman’s 5 Minute Stress Reduction & Peak Performance Program gives you 11 different easy to learn and quick to implement stress reduction techniques. Plus he explains exactly how to make the techniques a natural and permanent part of life.
I couldn’t recommend it more. And the best part, I guarantee it will work and cost you less than a therapy session! 
It’s a proven fact that stress makes you old, tired, sick and fat. We all have it, yet once we learn to squash it in its tracks it makes a world of difference in our ability to perform in our jobs, achieve our goals, parent our children and just plain enjoy our lives.
I’ve no doubt that my stress will not go away, but now I have several really simple and easy to remember techniques to easily put any stressful situation into perspective and feel calmer instantly.
I suggest you give it a try too. To put Dr. Brian Alman’s 5 Minute Stress Reduction & Peak Performance Program to work for your stress, check it our now! You’ll be glad you did.
Hope that helped and have a great weekend.
Until next week,
Julie McManus
Editor, In the ‘Net Trenches
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Comment by Geoff Bryan — October 19, 2007 @ 10:12 am
This is kind of a departure for this publication. Of course, I can hardly complain about the content of a free newsletter, but it is noteworthy that there is not one actionable piece of advice in this article, other than ordering the project.
It\’s your decision, of course, but if people aren\’t sure whether they are going to get useful information versus a sales letter, the open rate on these is bound to drop.
Comment by Geoff Bryan — October 19, 2007 @ 10:13 am
Sorry, I meant to say \”ordering the [B]product[/B]\” not project.
Comment by Veronica Routtu — October 19, 2007 @ 10:18 am
I really identified with this post. My youngest son came to me with Reactive Attachment Disorder and since he has started school it has been very stressful trying to keep on top of business and dealing with the school and learning what I need to, to help him…
It seems once you get into stress mode, things just snowball, so anything that can help reduce stress is wonderful!
I think it is great to be a work at home mom, but when you can\’t leave the work at the office and you are trying to balance being a mom with working from home, stress relief techniques are a great bonus to help us work at home mom\’s cope!
I will be interested to try Dr. Alman\’s info! Thanks a bunch for the info.
Veronica Routtu
Comment by Andrew Cavanagh — October 19, 2007 @ 4:32 pm
This is an important article.
There are so many stress reduction methods.
Most don\’t require buying anything.
Deep breathing is simple and easy.
And I would highly recommend EFT which is scientifically proven and free to learn online.
But most important of all is not to let stress continue without breaking the cycle.
Physical and emotional stress can lead to a wide variety of chronic diseases.
You can\’t write copy if you\’re dead.
Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh
Comment by Wendy — October 19, 2007 @ 5:07 pm
Hey Geoff:
Don\’t worry… although this might seem to be a bit of a departure of what is normally provided, it was written with the complete intention of being helpful.
From time to time we come upon something that has helped us out personally and we want to share that experience with our subscribers.
If you have been a TTP subscriber for long, then you know that we always strive for our TTP issues to be chalk full of actionable information and advice.
I know that the stress reduction advice Julie gave to us today she has personally put to use and I\’ve seen the quality and quantity of her work excell because of it.
Sometimes we all need to take a look at our schedules and how we handle stress and make sure we are getting the best work accomplished in a very small amount of time.
I appreciate all the great comments we get on this blog everyday.
Please feel free to let me know your opinions anytime!
Sincerely,
Wendy Makepeace