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Expectations play an important role in many types of stress we experience. Here are just a few examples: Emotional Distress Many of our moods and emotions are tied to our expectations. If you expect to always be perfect, for example, you will often feel demoralized or depressed. If you expect bad things will surely happen to you, you may feel frightened, chronically anxious or perpetually worried. And when people fail …
Dr. Mort Orman here and please don’t let the title of this article–or the picture above–throw you. It’s not about pregnancy! Whether you are a man or a woman, the question “Are You Expecting?” applies to you. And whether you know it or not, the answer is… “Yes, you are.” As human beings, we are always “expecting.” In other words, we are always having expectations. Lots of expectations, actually. Some, …
Dr. Mort Orman here and today I want to introduce you to a very new type of online community—The League of Extraordinary Stress Eliminators. This is a new, private FB group I created that focuses exclusively on helping people win the “inside game” of stress. In other words, its primary purpose is to help people become better at identifying the internal causes of their stress, and then knowing how to …
Dr. Mort Orman here and today I want to focus on our biggest barrier to eliminating stress. Now there are actually many barriers. One is that we don’t really believe that eliminating most of our stress is realistically possible. Another is that we think only a few, very special people could ever accomplish such a “superhuman” feat. A third is that we don’t know many people who have successfully learned …
Dr. Mort Orman here and today I am announcing that “stress elimination” will be the official theme for this year’s National Stress Awareness Month (April 1-30). I have been the sponsor of National Stress Awareness Month, every April since 1992. And as the sponsor, I get to choose a theme if I wish. Some years I select a theme, and some years I don’t. This year, I thought it important …
Dr. Mort Orman here and today I want to ask you a very important question. Would you rather manage your stress…or eliminate it instead? Most people say they would rather eliminate their stress, instead of spending countless hours each and every week of their lives just to manage it. And while they answer this way, they don’t really think it’s possible to eliminate most of their stress. But what if …
Dr. Mort Orman here and today I want to conclude our brief, three-part series on how to gain greater health, happiness and success in your life. This series addresses three key masteries that challenge each of us, every single day: self mastery, life mastery, and stress mastery. In Part 1 of this series, I talked about self mastery skills, such as controlling our thoughts, mastering our emotions, resisting our impulses, …
Dr. Mort Orman here and today I want to focus on the second big key to greater health, happiness and success in your life: Life Mastery. This is the second part of a discussion about three key masteries that challenge each of us every day: self mastery, life mastery, and stress mastery. In Part 1 of this series, I talked about self mastery skills, such as controlling our thoughts, mastering …
Dr. Mort Orman here and today I want to begin a three-part series on how to become even more happy, healthy and successful in your life. This series will focus on what I call three key masteries that challenge each of us: self mastery, life mastery, and stress mastery. Just think about these three things. Then imagine what they might look and feel like for a moment. What would it …
Dr. Mort Orman here, and this week I’ve been focusing on 27 important truths about life I abstracted from a group of 88 truths published in a blog post by a young man named David Cain, who lives in Winnipeg, Canada and writes a blog about being human at www.rapititude.com . If you want to read his entire article, “88 Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life,” just click here. I …
