Tagged: Stress

Karen Anderson

Featured · Wellness & Spa · Yoga

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Holiday Peace of Mind: Meditation Q&A with Karen Anderson

  • December 18, 2016

The holiday season can be extra busy and sometimes stressful, so it’s the perfect time to engage in mindful practices like yoga and meditation. Yoga director at the Vail Vitality Center, Karen Anderson, learned to meditate in a 30-day silent retreat in India. She was with a Tibetan Buddhist group from Colorado, and she says the retreat changed her life. She now has a daily meditation practice with an annual 30-day retreat (she has completed 10 so far. “I spent about 6 years in Tibetan Buddhism, and then trained to teach in the lineage of Jack Kornfield and the Thai forest tradition,” she shares, “and now I find myself drawn to Adyashanti’s version of Zen and other Non-dualist practices.” The[…]

Holiday sprit

emotional wellbeing · Featured · Fitness · Wellness & Spa

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Holiday Heath: 7 Ways To Keep Your Spirit Bright

  • December 15, 2015

The holidays are meant to be joyous and fun, but they often unravel differently — with feelings that can include stress, sadness, imbalance and overwhelm. Mindfulness and discerning actions in this Holiday Health series can really help to make the season a time we look forward to, rather than a time we dread. Twyla Gingrich, mental health and substance abuse clinician for Mind Springs Health, offers some suggestions for a creating peace and joy this holiday season: 1. Soften Your Expectations  “One of the biggest culprits is expectations,” Gingrich says of what causes holiday overload. “Expectations of how the holidays ‘should’ go, and if we don’t live up to those, [we think] we’ve failed.” Drop the “should” when it comes to[…]

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Wellness & Spa

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Improve Your Emotional IQ 

  • June 25, 2015

At the most basic level, Emotional Intelligence (EI), is being smart with, and about, feelings. “This means really getting to know your feelings, intimately, and using your feelings as data to live more mindfully — more consciously and intentionally, more proactively and less reactively,” explains Shannon Short, life coach and certified assessor for the 6 Seconds Emotional Intelligence (SEI). The 6 Seconds organization says EI is the capacity to blend thinking and feeling to make optimal decisions. Here is the model of EI in Action, which includes three pursuits: Know yourself — Awareness: becoming more aware, tuning into emotional data — noticing what you do (and feel). Choose yourself — Management: becoming more intentional, responding consciously — doing what you mean to do (proactively[…]

Thyroid

Nutrition · Wellness & Spa

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Get To Know Your Thyroid: Is it time to treat your metabolism trigger?

  • January 30, 2015

The thyroid controls the body regulates temperature, metabolism, and how much energy is expended at rest. Thyroid imbalances are often associated with weight management struggles, because when the thyroid doesn’t produce as much of the thyroid hormone, then the body’s processes (like the metabolism) slow down. “In a normally functioning system, metabolism should be a normal, efficient process that does not need to be ‘managed’ other than with following basic healthy lifestyle guidelines,” explains Dr. Steven Schwartz of Balanced Health Center, Vail Valley. “If it is a constant battle to keep weight off, there could be a thyroid issue, a chronic infection issue, a digestive issue or even an adrenal issue.” Symptoms Of Thyroid Disfunction Benjamin Stone with Sigma Human[…]

sleep

Wellness & Spa

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Sleep & Stress: Create More Ease In Your Body

  • December 31, 2014

Did you sleep well last night?  We hope so, because while you were sleeping, your body received a tune-up. During sleep, our bodies rebuild and repair. When we are deprived of deep sleep, the brain makes molecules that are associated with stress. During deep sleep, our biological functions align their rhythms with each other. These functions include respiration, blood pressure and brain wave activity. This same phenomenon happens we we’re in a state of meditation, appreciation, or when we enter the “zone” athletes experience when they are feeling at their best. Scientists agree this state is good for our health. Melatonin production is another important biological function that happens while we’re sleeping. Known as the sleep hormone, Melatonin is secreted[…]

Solarium

emotional wellbeing · Injury & Recovery · Wellness & Spa

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My Myofascial Release: Energy shifts and emotional epiphanies

  • August 7, 2014

I never thought about pain as being toxic, but since toxicity is defined as the degree to which a substance can damage an organism, I guess I was wrong. Not only does this definition align with physical pain, but with emotional pain as well. However it shows up — discomfort, tension, resistance — pain is a toxin in our bodies in its variety of symptoms. Some indications of pain are excruciatingly obvious, while others are are not-so-apparent. While physical pain doesn’t allow itself to be ignored, emotional pain is not always so persistent. In fact, it gets stuck sometimes, and it may take an intentional and assisted physical release to move it up and out of the body. Subtle Shifts[…]

Dealing with Stress

Featured · Fitness · Nutrition · Uncategorized · Wellness & Spa

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What do you mean when you say you are stressed?

  • December 17, 2013

Do you ever give much thought to what happens to your body physiologically under stress or how it affects your food choices? What is the difference between acute and chronic stress? The answers to these questions will help you understand how your body is handling or not handling daily challenges. Clinicians and researchers have debated the definition of stress for many years. Stress may come from your job demands, health challenges, or financial issues. Or, stress may be internalized in the form of worry, regret, or anxiety. These all place pressure on the mind, body, and spirit. And any stress, whether real or imagined, rational or not, produces a stress response in your body. The acute stress response is an[…]

Adrenal Imbalance

Chronic Conditions · Featured

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Are You Feeling Tired All The Time? It May Be An Adrenal Imbalance

  • July 23, 2013

What is Adrenal Imbalance? Your adrenal glands are a pair of small glands situated above your kidneys. These are your stress glands, responsible for producing hormones – particularly cortisol – you need to induce a “fight or flight” response and handle stress. However, when you have endured too much stress, your adrenal glands may burn out, leading to adrenal fatigue. The fast-paced lifestyles of the modern world have made adrenal fatigue far too common in adults, as well as increasing numbers of high school and college students. Living with stress day in and day out without relief, or facing “little” stressors – like daily traffic – can build up over time, wearing down your adrenal glands and destroying your health.[…]