http://www.care2.com/greenliving/how-to-live-less-stressfully.html
How to Live Less Stressfully
Adapted from Loving and Leaving the Good Life, by Helen Nearing (Chelsea Green, 1993).
The great pioneer of simple living, Helen Nearing, offers eleven wonderfully wise tips for living not only a less stressful life, but for living in a more connected and organic way.
Her tips really work: she lived to be 91, and her husband Scott to be 100. Find out the simple principles for Living the Good Life, right here:
1. Do the best you can, whatever arises.
2. Be at peace with yourself.
3. Find a job you enjoy.
4. Live in simple conditions; housing, food, clothing; get rid of clutter.
5. Contact nature every day; feel the earth under your feet.
6. Take physical exercise through hard work; through gardening or walking.
7. Don’t worry; live one day at a time.
8. Share something every day with someone else; if you live alone, write someone; give something away; help someone else somehow.
9. Take time to wonder at life and the world; see some humor in life where you can.
10. Observe the one life in all things.
11. Be kind to the creatures.
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add your comment »Doing your best doesn't mean perfect... as good or better than someone's best.
I started Taekwondo two years ago and my best is not the same as my 14 year old daughter's best. She jumps higher, runs faster longer. My best is my best. It is the highest level for me at this time. It changes as I continue doing my best.
Do everything with passion.. do your best.. be open to the perfection of this moment..
love yourself well,
Donna
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well, number 1 is the hardest part, and that is what stresses most: doing best, being perfect. maybe not the best advice?
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cool ill try this
and also i must always center with our creator
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After going to hypnosis seminar to quit smoking the realxation techniques are alos a great way to remove stress. But it needs to be repetitive. So get yourself a CD of relaxation and teach your mind to relax.
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if you have enough do not crave for more and always keep our Creator as the center of your life and offer to him everything you do.
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take problem as challenge and don't problematise problems
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This is pretty lame. There's nothing more stressing than doing "the best you can" every time. Maybe if the first tip got deleted, the rest would look somehow wise.
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5. Contact nature every day; feel the earth under your feet. I miss doing this one. It would make me feel so good, so in touch, so alive. Now, if only I could find my way back there...then all would be wonderful! Thanks
Cat
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The Art of Living Course gives you practical knowledge on how to eliminate stress in your life. It consists of breathing processes, particularly Sudarshan Kriya Yoga, asanas and games that actually give you more energy to live your life more relaxed and at ease. Precious knowledge are given on how to keep our energy high and our mind focused while relaxed, alert while at ease and ever present in the Now. www.us.artofliving.org
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Joan E Randall, Friday Feb 1/08
I am thankful for each new day and pray that I can cheer up someone else's day somehow.Smiles are the easiest gift to give!!!When one comes back...that's 2 cheered up people and you can multiply it as many times as you want!!!
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