Word: stress
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...course promises to teach breathing techniques to reduce stress, increase energy and enhance mental acuity. According to the foundation's publications, the breathing skills taught can be effective in treating depression and other health concerns by bringing "the mind, body and emotions into harmony with the inner self...
Hazra is described by the foundation as an internationally respected teacher of stress management, and says he draws crowds of 200,000 to his appearances in India...
...layer of show-biz complexity and tension. But remaining is Sloane's Marcy/Tori, a brilliant comic creation down to her slightest tic, squeak and emotion-punctuating chest thrust. Marcy is really Pointe's most likable character, a good-hearted dim bulb made a nervous wreck by gossip and the stress of looking impossibly good. (A bulimia scene, also cut, was a cruel but apt picture of the flip side of TV's hot-body worship.) Star's using his past for laughs, yes, but not without heart...
BABIES AT RISK Could cleft palate and spina bifida be the result of stress during pregnancy? That's the implication of a study of more than 20,000 Danish women. The researchers found that pregnant women struggling with emotionally wrenching life changes--a death in the immediate family, say, or a partner suffering a heart attack--had a higher incidence of congenital problems than women with relatively stress-free pregnancies. Two stressful pregnancies in a row doubled the chances of having a child with congenital problems...
...Creswell sought training because she wanted to leave IBM and set up an independent coaching practice. While continuing her job, she coached a few outside clients on the phone. "I realized," she says, "that I was talking about things I needed to talk to folks at IBM about--stress on the job, communications problems with people, whether they were doing the wrong kind of work." She approached the head of her division and asked to coach colleagues who might be interested in talking about such issues as job-fit and departmental-communications problems. She got permission to try a pilot...