We'll admit it.

This whole search has been pretty darned stressful.

There's just so many darned know-it-alls out there, so many books, so many techniques, so many scams, so much psychobabble, so much information and misinformation . . .

But still, we have been determined to find the best answers available for our devoted LiveReal members.

Finding the Key . . .

One might think that amid the barrage of information about stress, there might be some easily found, practical answers. Nope. Not at all. Or at least, they exist, but are deeply buried underneath mounds of rubble.

But that rubble is exactly what your valiant LiveReal Editors have been hard at work sorting through.

And so, in our vast, nerve-wracking, hair-gripping explorations of the stress-packed modern world, we have pawed our way through many tons of all the stress-coping methods that are "out there." For example:

• Count breaths
• Imagine/visualize/pretend you're not here
• Stay home
• Count to five
• Pop a pill or two
• Biofeedback
• Count to ten.
• Avoid stressful situations
• Analyze, graph, and diagram coping strategies
• Alcohol
• Meditation
• Panic
• Get therapy
• Anchors, triggers, confidence-buttons, etc
• Self-hypnosis
• Go postal
• Yoga
• "Autogenic Training"
• Count to twenty, fifty, a million, whatever
• Sleep a lot

So . . . what really works?

 

Sneak Preview:

"You know that our body is subjected to atmospheric pressure. This pressure is so strong that it would be sufficient to flatten us completely if it were not counterbalanced by the internal pressure of our organism. When we climb a mountain, the atmospheric pressure drops so that by comparison our internal pressure feels stronger than the external pressure and gives us a sensation of lightness.
If we climb very high, this inner pressure is such that blood may even rush out of our ears and skin. On the contrary, if we descend below sea level, the exterior pressure becomes greater and greater and we feel oppressed, suffocated.
The same phenomena take place in the spiritual life. Our consciousness can climb and descend.
When it climbs, the exterior pressure (that is to say the events which trouble and torment us in life) is felt less and less because the inner pressure becomes relatively more powerful.
On the contrary, if your consciousness descends very low into matter, we make mountains out of the smallest things. We must therefore elevate ourselves very high with our thoughts in order to live on the summits of high spiritual mountains."

- Omraam Mikhael Aïvanhov