y disease (Stress Reduction Techniques 2000).In addition, you should become what Linda Cruse calls an "office athlete" (Cruse, 1999, p. 65) This entails monitoring your stress level when it starts to produce physical symptoms. She suggests that you should move and stretch as much and as often as you can during the course of the day. This monitoring should be for two particular places: your shoulders and your jaw. "They are often repositories of stress and can lead to pinched nerves and TMJ, a debilitating disorder that causes pain and loss of mobility in the jaw," Cruse states (1999, p. 65).Also, the sheer power of yoga and meditation has been a huge hit in recent years. Research has demonstrated consistent, powerful results using these techniques. Stress researcher, Hans Selye, writes, "These practices should not be underestimated merely because science cannot explain them; they have worked for so long and in so many forms that we must respect them" (Stress Reduction Techniques 2000). People that have mastered meditation are capable of reducing blood pressure, oxygen consumption and even reduce their heart rate whenever they want (Stress Reduction Techniques 2000). Over time, almost anyone can achieve these desireable results. According to Herbert Benson, a Harvard University physician, everyday you should plan to spend some time at rest (not asleep). Breathing should be your main focus at this point and it should occur in the diaphram, the muscle between your abdomen and your chest (Stress Tips & Strategies 1999). He states that you should make it regular and continuously repeat one word. The word itself should be simple or it could even be a word that does not make you think, like the ever popular "om." He goes on to emphasize that this form of relaxation "is a skill that requires regular practice. It is not helpful to try it for the first time when under enormous stress" (Stress Reduction Techniques 2000).Doing visual...
