“Top
Ten Stress News Stories Countdown of 2004”
10.
Childhood stress can come back to haunt you.
Comment: Studies
at the University of California at Irvine suggest, that early
life stress not only harms mental function but can also cause
immune system problems in later life.
“The
Power of Three ”
Feeling
stressed? Try these three powerful lesser known ways to relax,
even in the middle of the most hectic day!
1.
Discover the restorative power of nature.
There
is now abundant scientific evidence indicating that exposure
to the natural environment has profound positive effects
on your physical and mental health.
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“A
Room With A View”
A
Remarkable Body of Scientific Research Has Been Overlooked!
A
group of patients who were about to undergo surgery in a
large metropolitan hospital were randomly assigned to one
of two groups prior to their operations. After surgery, patients
in the first group recovered as well as could be expected,
with the usual number of complications and use of pain medications.
But the second group of patients had...
"Music
is the shorthand of emotion."
Leo
Tolstoy
Who
has not experienced the power of music to evoke emotion?
Mozart's Requiem has moved the souls of countless listeners
for hundreds of years. Today, we are more likely to be exposed
to the sound track of the latest popular film than to the
stirring notes of a baroque orchestra. Director Francis Ford
Coppola used music with stunning effect in his 1979 masterwork,
Apocalypse Now. As the gunship helicopters prepare to fly
into battle over the jungles of Vietnam, the unit's commander,
Colonel Bill Kilgore, played by Robert Duvall, signals the
start of Wagner's majestic and stirring Flight of the Valkyries,
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