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The Doctor's Remedy: Biofeedback for Stress

By Anahad O'Connor — 2012

Patients aren’t the only ones interested in alternative and complementary medicine. In an occasional series, Well talks to doctors around the country to find out what nontraditional medicines or therapies they sometimes recommend or use themselves.

Read on well.blogs.nytimes.com

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Stress Management: How to Reduce, Prevent, and Cope with Stress

It may seem that there’s nothing you can do about your stress level. The bills aren’t going to stop coming, there will never be more hours in the day for all your errands, and your career or family responsibilities will always be demanding. But you have a lot more control than you might think.

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Ways to Manage Stress

Stress is part of being human, and it can help motivate you to get things done. Even high stress from serious illness, job loss, a death in the family, or a painful life event can be a natural part of life.

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Stress Symptoms, Signs, and Causes

In today’s fast-paced world, chronic stress is common, but your mind and body can pay a high price. Learn to recognize overwhelming stress—and what you can do about it.

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Effective Stress Relievers for Your Life

From minor challenges to major crises, stress is part of life. And while you can't always control your circumstances, you can control how you respond to them.

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Gps Guide: Mirabai Bush’s Mindful Response to Frustration and Impatience at Work

The stress and strain of constantly being connected can sometimes take your life—and your well-being—off course. GPS for the Soul can help you find your way back to balance.

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Resilience Expert Offers Three Ways to Tap into the Wisdom of the Body

Linda Graham presents a full toolbox of practices to help you meet the chaos of life with awareness, acceptance, and deep knowledge that you have the strength to work with it all.

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Thai Boys Who Were Trapped in Cave Had a Powerful Survival Tool

It’s a captivating image: a dozen pre-teen and teen boys trapped in a cave for 10 days, only to be found by rescuers mysteriously calm, composed . . . perhaps even meditating.

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5 Natural Stress Busters

When we call upon stress hormones to boost us to heroic heights time and again, our bodies can do nothing else but operate in fight-or-flight mode. This could lead to all kinds of medical problems.

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Yoga Is a Stress Reliever—But It Can Also Help Beat Addiction

In a 2017 pilot study out of UCLA, when adults who were addicted to cocaine or methamphetamines participated in an eight-week MBRP program that included some yoga practice, they experienced less substance use and showed improvements in the severity of depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric...

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A 90-Second Breathwork Tool to Reduce Stress

Ashley Neese, a holistic practitioner in California, describes breathwork as a deeper kind of self-care, one that can “help you move through blocks you can’t see.” Slow, intentioned, mindful breathing is a tool that can be used “any time, any place,” she says.

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