The Top 10 Tools for Living Your Best Life

By Jeanette Griffin

Whatever your goals are for creating a positive lifestyle—whether it is creating a less stressed life, setting new health goals, strengthening your relationships, or being more motivated to accomplish your goals—the following tools have the greatest impact on my life and countless others’...Read more...

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Let Go and Live: Experiencing Emotional Freedom

By Jeanette Griffin

Having children is one of the best training grounds for learning the all too important lesson of letting go. We begin learning this from the time our child takes their first unassisted step. We feel mixed emotions as our child let’s go of our hand and steps away from us. It can be both exciting and sad to see them growing up and away. It doesn’t come easy for most moms to do it with ease; we want to hold onto our child(ren) for dear life as long as we can. It is within our human DNA to hold on. It is also taught to us by our parents, peers, and society to “hold on for dear life, “and “keep a grip on reality.”

Just as with having no control over our child growing and moving away, we cannot control our lives by placing rigid expectations on how it should be. This is one of the biggest causes of emotional stress...Read more...

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Progressive Muscle Relaxation: Stress Management for Body Tension Reduction

By Jeanette Griffin

There are many methods for reducing stress. Progressive muscle relaxation is used for reducing overall body tension. So what is it? PMR is a tension-reducing technique that takes the participant through a sequence of tensing and relaxing of specific muscle groups. The participant begins with the muscles in the face, tensing all of these muscles and holding the tension to the count of ten. They will then allow these muscles to relax for a count of ten. They will repeat the process working through each set of the muscles until all of the body has been relaxed.

With regular, dedicated practice, PMR can help you become familiar with your body’s tension habits...Read more...

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