Word: stress
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Women have long appreciated the spa as a place to relieve tension and stress. Now the men in their lives are discovering the same benefits. KSL Resorts in La Quinta, Calif., surveyed boomer men in October and found that 20% of them had been to a spa. That's up from less than 1% five years ago, says Arthur Berg, vice president of marketing for KSL. "You used to see the wives in this age group go to the spas while the husbands played golf," Berg says. Now the men, driven to stay fit and attractive and to reward themselves...
...fruits of our labor," Dianna says. The couple recently spent $1,500 for massages on a weeklong getaway. They visit a day spa once a week near their home. "We like the deep-tissue massages that really help ease any physical discomfort," Dianna says. "It's our therapy for stress and anxiety...
...among Native American regular users, some of whom even performed better on psychological tests than those with minimal substance use. It's certainly too much to say that every peyote user emerges undamaged by the drug, and the lead researcher on the study, Dr. John Halpern, takes care to stress that his findings apply only to the Native American groups he studied...
...Hughes Aircraft?offer meditation classes to their workers. Jeffrey Abramson, CEO of Tower Co., a Washington-based development firm, says 75% of his staff attend free classes in transcendental meditation. Making employees sharper is only one benefit; studies say meditation also improves productivity, in large part by preventing stress-related illness and reducing absenteeism...
While the researchers did not look specifically at the quality of the work, a long history of psychological research has proved what one might expect: performance declines--and stress rises--with the number of tasks juggled. Similarly, there's a long-held principle in psychology that maintains that a little stimulation or arousal improves performance but too much causes it to decline. "If you apply that law to multitasking," says Mark, "you would expect that a certain amount of multitasking would increase arousal, perhaps leading to greater efficiency. But too much will produce declining performance...