Anxiety And Stress - What We Do To Cause It And How To Overcome It

2008-10-07T15:30:00.000+07:00

Many people use the terms "stress" and "anxiety" interchangeably, but they are in fact two separate conditions. Stress is a response to a stimulus, which can be external or internal. You may experience stress because you are frustrated with something (like waiting in line behind a slow person) or when you are worried that you will not meet expectations (such as missing a deadline at work).

Anxiety, on the other hand, is a feeling of dread, or nervousness and fear. It can be caused by negative thoughts and expectations, or as a response to stress. You may experience feelings of anxiety virtually all of the time and not understand why, or your feelings may be a response to something you are nervous about, such as an upcoming test.

Abnormal levels of certain neurotransmitters in the brain may cause generalized anxiety. Some research indicates that anxiety can be brought on genetically. In addition, anxiety can stem from environmental conditions, as when the child of a parent who is often anxious becomes an anxious person by observing the parent. But very often the base cause of anxiety is simply the thoughts that a person is thinking!

Stress and anxiety are subjective conditions. Different people may feel stressed about different situations, and different people may react to their anxiousness in extremely different ways. Symptoms of anxiety can range from the mild, such as sweaty hands and tense muscles, to the severe, such as vomiting, irregular heartbeat, and anxiety attacks.

Everyone feels some amount of anxiety from time to time. We have all experienced the dry mouth and vague sense of dread before a public speaking engagement or a test. But when does it become damaging to your health? Research has revealed that chronic anxiety can make us vulnerable to sleep disorders, high blood pressure, relationship problems, and depression

For sufferers of chronic untreated anxiety, there may be detrimental health consequences that have yet to be fully examined. Some studies have found a link between generalized anxiety disorder and a number of serious health conditions including cancer, arthritis, respiratory illness, heart disease, and thyroid disease. Chronically anxious people may even be more likely to suffer a fatal cardiac attack.

If you suffer from what seems like an inappropriately high amount of anxiety relative to the circumstances, or if you feel anxious nearly every day, you may actually have an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders are chronic conditions characterized by an individual's inability to function normally because of frequent anxiety. Anxiety disorders are serious conditions that should be treated to lower the risk of long-term effects.

Anxiety treatment has long been the subject of much discussion in the medical field. Some medical professionals feel that medication is the best treatment for chronic anxiety. Unfortunately, anxiety medications often produce undesirable side effects that are just as bad as or even worse than the initial condition.

There are many safe and effective ways to control negative emotional reactions. Exercise is one that is often overlooked by anxious people, but it is highly effective. When you exercise, your body releases endorphins, which are natural pain-killing and mood-boosting chemicals. With regular exercise, you may begin to feel a dramatic decrease in negative emotional reactions to situations that would previously have made you extremely anxious.

The most effective way to deal with tension and worry is to control it from within. Stress relief and stress management techniques are very useful in handling day-to-day stress. These techniques can teach you to calm yourself and let the tension leave your body. You make a conscious effort to slow your breathing, release the worry, and remain in a peaceful state of mind. Meditation is an increasingly popular form of tension relief in which you practice mindful relaxation and deep, calm breathing.

However, if you seek a proactive method to relieve yourself of anxiety, hypnotherapy is the best treatment option. When an individual undergoes hypnotherapy, their reactions and emotional responses to events are changed at the core. This gives them the opportunity to handle typical anxiety-inducing triggers without the usual nervousness and fear.

Hypnosis is often performed by a licensed hypnotherapist in a series of regular treatments. More commonly today, hypnotherapy takes the form of self hypnosis programs which can be purchased in the form of MP3s, DVDs, or CDs for personal home use. No special skills are required to practice self hypnosis. All you need is a way to play the hypnotherapy program and a quiet space where you can listen and relax.

Another successful type of anxiety treatment is Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. NLP is a type of therapy that helps you retrain your mind and body to naturally react to situations in a more positive manner. You can consciously decide to stay calm rather than anxious, and consequently, you always have control over your own feelings.

In summary, you can see that it is important to manage our negative emotional responses in order to remain healthy. Learning to cope with fear and nervousness may even add years onto your life. To treat long term anxiety, the best course of action is to use hypnosis to change your attitudes and reactions from within. Then, it becomes easy to use stress management techniques as needed to remain calm in everyday situations.

Alan B. Densky, CH has been in practice over 30 years. His Neuro-VISION hypnotism website carries a broad range of anxiety elimination NLP CDs, and advanced stress elimination CDs Visit his site for the Free video hypnosis blog, and download a free MP3.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 opens August 6th, 2008 (wide)

2008-08-05T11:57:00.002+07:00

Three years after the events of THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS,
the four young women are back. Despite the distance that divides them
as they depart for college, the friends from Ann Brashares's teen book
series still stay connected. This sequel returns Amber Tamblyn, America
Ferrera, Blake Lively, and Alexis Bledel to the roles they originated.

The Happening

2008-07-12T13:26:00.000+07:00

In THE HAPPENING, M. Night Shyamalan serves up over-the-top, apocalyptic strangeness. The film opens onto New York City\'s Central Park with a crowd of people enjoying an idyllic summer day. The carefree scene soon takes a terrifying turn, when out of nowhere, hordes of people begin to commit suicide en masse. People scramble to make sense of the pandemonium, and many believe it is a terrorist attack.

It appears that some sort of deadly toxin is being released into the air. Cut to Elliot (Mark Wahlberg) a science teacher in Philadelphia. When he learns of the attack on New York, he meets up with his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel), his friend Julian (John Leguizamo), and Julians\'s daughter, Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez). They make plans to get out of the city via train, but the train is evacuated in the middle of a small Pennsylvania town.

When they learn that the mysterious toxin is spreading its way across the Northeast, they break up into groups, with Elliot, Alma, and Jess running through open farmland in search of safety. They are unsure of where to hide, or what exactly they are hiding from, until Elliot slowly forms a theory about the threat. He fights to keep Alma and Jess free from harm, and the film builds to a bizarre, unsettling climax, with Shyamalan\'s usual surprise ending.

Shyamalan\'s premise of escaping an unknown, unexplainable attack is a timely one, and is quite chilling in concept. However, while he at times appears to be groping for the frenzied scariness of THE BIRDS, THE HAPPENING\'s outlandish death scenes and implausible plot line often veer closer to B-movie classics. The film doesn\'t match the clever creepiness of THE SIXTH SENSE, but for fans of campy horror la THE EVIL DEAD, it is truly something to behold.

Source : 8. The Happening - $3.9M

Jennifer Lopez photo on Beach

2008-07-12T13:14:00.001+07:00

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Ben Afflect Mini Biography

2008-07-11T15:27:00.000+07:00

Benjamin Geza Affleck was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California, USA but raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He was born to parents Tim Affleck, a social worker, who is now divorced from Ben's mother Chris Affleck, a school teacher. Ben also has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975.

Ben wanted to be an actor ever since he could remember and his first acting experience was for a Burger King commercial, when he was on the PBS mini-series "The Voyage of the Mimi" (1984). It was also at that age when Ben met his lifelong friend and fellow actor, Matt Damon. They played little league together and took drama classes together.

Ben's teen years consisted of mainly TV movies and small television appearances including Hands of a Stranger (1987) (TV) and "The Second Voyage of the Mimi" (1988). He made his big introduction into feature films in 1993 when he was cast in Dazed and Confused (1993). After that, he did mostly independent films like Kevin Smith's Mallrats (1995) and Chasing Amy (1997) which were great for Ben's career, receiving renowned appreciation for his works at the Sundance film festival. But the success he was having in independent films didn't last much longer and things got a little shaky for Ben.

He was living in an apartment with his brother Casey and friend Matt, getting tired of being turned down for the big roles in films and being given the forgettable supporting ones. Since Matt was having the same trouble, they decided to write their own script, where they could call all the shots. So, after finishing the script for Good Will Hunting (1997), they gave it to their agent Patrick Whitesell, who showed it to a few Hollywood studios, finally being accepted by Castlerock.

It was great news for the two but Castlerock wasn't willing to give Ben and Matt the control over the project they were hoping for. It was friend Kevin Smith who took it to the head of Miramax who bought the script giving Ben and Matt the control they wanted and, in December of 1997, Good Will Hunting (1997) was released, making the two unknown actors famous.

The film was nominated for 9 Academy Awards and won two, including Best Original Screenplay for Ben and Matt. The film marked Ben's breakthrough role, in which he was given for the first time the chance to choose roles instead of having to go through grueling auditions constantly. He chose such roles in the blockbusters Armageddon (1998/I), Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Pearl Harbor (2001). With these hits to his credit, Hollywood can't seem to get enough of Ben, with directors wanting him in their movies and companies wanting his screenplays.

His inspirational story of hard work and amazing climb to the top has brought him what he deserves and Ben Affleck has shown no sign of slowing down.

The Love Guru

2008-07-11T13:26:00.000+07:00

Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) and his estranged wife. After the split, Roanoke\'s wife starts dating L.A.

Kings star Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake) out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid - to the horror of the teams\' owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer). Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old "Bullard Curse" and win the Stanley Cup.

Source : 6. The Love Guru - $5.4M

Jennifer Lopez Mini Biography

2008-07-10T15:35:00.001+07:00

Jennifer was born on July 24, 1969, in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx. Her father, David, was a computer technician. Her mother, Guadalupe, taught kindergarten. Jennifer is the middle of three daughters. Her elder sister, Leslie, is a housewife who sings opera. Her younger sister, Lynda, is a DJ on New York's WKTU, a VH1 VJ, and a morning news show correspondent on New York's Channel 11. Jennifer's parents were born in Puerto Rico, but did not meet until both came to America. Her mother's parents were Europeans who settled in Puerto Rico. She says that it was her parents' work ethic that made a difference in her life. Jennifer took singing and dancing lessons from age 5. She attended 12 years of Catholic school, including an all-girl high school. She played softball and tennis in high school and was a gymnast.

After high school, she briefly worked in a law office. During this time, she continued dance classes at night. At 18, she left home because her mother was scared by her decision to pursue show business. With casting on "In Living Color" (1990) in 1990, she moved to L.A., but initially hated it. Finally her boy friend, David Cruz, moved to be with her there and she learned to accept her new environment. Her career took off from her "Living Color" stint and reached new peaks with her portrayal of slain Latino singer Selena (1997).

Kung Fu Panda

2008-07-10T13:25:00.000+07:00

With 2008\'s KUNG FU PANDA, the talking-animal CGI film enters a new era, one that makes room for both painterly artwork and fierce martial-arts action. Po (voiced by Jack Black), a clumsy and ever-hungry panda, is a huge kung fu fan, but seems destined to sell noodles like his father, Mr. Ping (James Hong), who inexplicably happens to be a goose.

When Po literally crashes a ceremony involving martial-arts masters Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) and Oogway (Randall Duk Kim) and their pupils, the Furious Five--which includes Tigress (Angelina Jolie, in a surprisingly small part) and Crane (David Cross)--he ends up being selected by the latter elder as the revered Dragon Warrior. As the skeptical Shifu reluctantly trains the hapless Po, his former star pupil, Tai Lung (Ian McShane), escapes from a high-security prison, setting up a collision course between the bumbling bear and the powerful villain.

One of the finest animated films released under the Dreamworks banner, KUNG FU PANDA deftly avoids many of the pitfalls of the genre (i.e. cheesy musical sequences), juggling action, heart, and humor in a highly entertaining way.

While Black (in endearingly restrained mode), Hoffman, Kim, and McShane voice their characters with verve, the real stars of PANDA are directors Mark Osborne and John Stevenson and their animators, who lovingly depict ornate Chinese chambers and vast mountainous vistas, as well as blazing kung fu battles. A movie with remarkably wide appeal, KUNG FU PANDA delivers on its quirky, high-concept title with gleeful aplomb.

Source : 4. Kung Fu Panda - $11.7M

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2008-07-10T12:39:00.001+07:00

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Sex and the City

2008-07-09T13:26:00.000+07:00

The continuing adventures of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda as they live their lives in Manhattan four years after the series ended.

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Texas man freed by DNA after 15 years in prison

2008-07-09T09:04:00.000+07:00

A Texas man who spent more than 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of kidnapping and robbery raised both arms skyward and collapsed in his mother's embrace Thursday after being told he was a free man.

Source : Texas man freed by DNA after 15 years in prison

Tatum O'Neal's Drug Bust Sentence

2008-07-09T09:03:00.000+07:00

Tatum O'Neal, the Oscar-winning actress, took a plea deal on July 2 stemming from her June 1 arrest while supposedly trying to score some crack cocaine in New York City's Lower East Side. She was initially charged with possession of a controlled substance and faced a year in prison if convicted. The court allowed her to plead out to a disorderly conduct charge and ordered her to attend two half-day drug treatment sessions.

If she follows the courts orders they will dismiss the cocaine possession charges. O'Neal has been open about her history of heroine addiction as outlined in her memoir, A Paper Life. When she was arrested by undercover officers they searched her and found two bags of cocaine along with an unused crack pipe. She had initially told police that she was doing research for an acting role. Then she changed her story and told them that the death of her 16-year-old dog nearly triggered her into relapse.

Some say O'Neal was treated with a slap on the wrist. Others say she did not deserve to do any jail time because of her addiction. This begs a critical question that we as a society need to address. Should we treat drug addiction as a criminal matter or a medical problem? For most people, treatment is a much more effective approach than imprisonment for successfully breaking their addictions, yet our prisons are full of individuals whose only crime is their drug addiction.

According to Justice Department statistics, the U.S. holds a firm lead in maintaining the most prisoners of any country in the world -- now at 2.5 million and rising. In 2006, Justice recorded the largest increase since 2000 in the number of people in prisons and jails. Criminal justice experts attribute the exploding U.S. prison population to harsh sentencing laws and record numbers of drug law violators entering the system, many of whom have substance abuse problems.

Nonviolent drug offenders like Tatum O'Neal should be given an opportunity to receive treatment, not jail time, for their drug use. This would be a more effective (not to mention much more affordable) solution for both the individual and the community. Prosecutors in many states such as New York, where they have leeway to recommend a defendant to treatment instead of incarceration, more than likely will not do it. This is because it would not be considered a "win" for them.

In effect, the system does not reward prosecutors for doing the compassionate thing. O'Neal can be considered a role model to millions of young people all over the world. One can only hope that her experiences with addiction and the realities of the drug war will encourage her to join the movement to reform U.S. drug policy. If she decides to take up the cause of treatment, she could help change laws across the country.

After all, if treatment instead of jail is good enough for her as she struggles with her addiction, surely it is good enough for the thousands of others just like her who struggle with their substance abuse problems every day. Like depression, addiction affects tens of millions of Americans. How best to treat it is a serious a question we need to explore. Rich or poor, young or old, addiction has no boundaries - but the drug war does.

Our 30-plus-year war on drugs has actually stifled the open debate society should be having about the nature of addiction and how best to deal with it. It is time to treat addiction for what it is, a medical problem, not a criminal one.

Source : Anthony Papa: Tatum O'Neal's Drug Bust Sentence: Appropriate or Not?

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2008-07-08T15:59:00.001+07:00

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Angelina Jolie Mini Biography

2008-07-08T15:00:00.001+07:00

This beautiful woman had child name Angelina Jolie Voight, and had lot of nick name, Angie, Catwoman, Ange, AJ. Woman with height 5' 8" (1.73 m) growing up in Los Angeles.

Jolie was no stranger to the film industry, being the daughter of Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight. She later trained and performed at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she was seen in several stage productions.

She worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles, and has also appeared in music videos for such artists as Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, Antonello Venditti and The Lemonheads. In addition, she has acted in five student films for the USC School of Cinema, all directed by her brother, James Haven.

Angelina Jolie is an Oscar-winning actress who has become popular by taking on the title role in the "Lara Croft" series of blockbuster movies. Off-screen, Jolie has become prominently involved in international charity projects, especially those involving refugees. She often appears on many "most beautiful women" lists, and she has a personal life that is avidly covered by the tabloid press.

In her earliest years, Angelina began absorbing the acting craft from her parents - her father is the Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight and her mother is Marcheline Bertrand, who had studied with Lee Strasberg. At age 11, Angelina began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. She undertook some film studies at New York University and later joined the renowned Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles. At age 16, she took up a career in modeling and appeared in some music videos. Her exotic good looks may derive from her mixed ancestry which is Czech, French-Canadian, Iroquois and English.

In the mid-1990s, Jolie appeared in various small films where she got good notices, including Hackers (1995) and Foxfire (1996). Her critical acclaim increased when she played strong roles in the made-for-TV movies True Women (1997) (TV), and in George Wallace (1997) (TV) which won her a Golden Globe award and an Emmy nomination. Jolie's acclaim increased even further when she played the lead role in the HBO production Gia (1998) (TV). This was the true life story of supermodel Gia Carangi, a sensitive wild child who was both brazen and needy and who had a difficult time handling professional success and the deaths of people who were close to her. Carangi became involved with drugs and because of her needle-using habits she became, at the tender age of 26, one of the first celebrities to die of AIDS. Jolie's performance in Gia (1998) (TV) again garnered a Golden Globe award and another Emmy nomination, and she additionally earned a SAG Award.

Get Smart

2008-07-08T13:25:00.000+07:00

IThe spy spoof series gets the screen treatment with this action comedy starring Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway. Agents 86 (Carell), 99 (Hathaway), and 23 (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) lead Control against the evil entity KAOS.

Source : 3. Get Smart - $20.0M

Tila Tequila Hot Photos

2008-07-08T11:09:00.001+07:00

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Celebrity Style: Lindsay Lohan

2008-07-08T09:01:00.000+07:00

Lindsay Lohan has been hard at work on the set of Labor Pains, but she took a much needed break to shop for her birthday. I'm glad to see her out of her movie wardrobe and into this sweet Anna Sui camisole (on sale!), Michael Kors caged sandals, and a Chanel bag. I like how she's super girlie up top and bad girl on the bottom. Happy Birthday, LL! Source

Source : Celebrity Style: Lindsay Lohan

Paris Hilton Hot Photos

2008-07-07T14:57:00.001+07:00

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Wanted

2008-07-07T13:25:00.001+07:00

Based on a series of graphic novels, this supernatural thriller explores the transformation that occurs when a cubicle-bound nothing of a man (James McAvoy) learns he has magical powers. WANTED costars Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman and arrives courtesy of Timur Bekmambetov, the director of the stunning Night Watch series.

Source : Wanted

Obama says Iraq trip could refine his policy

2008-07-07T09:01:00.000+07:00

AP - Democrat Barack Obama struggled Thursday to explain how his upcoming trip to Iraq might refine, but not basically alter, his promise to quickly remove U.S. combat troops from the war.

Source : Obama says Iraq trip could refine his policy

Rihanna - If I ever see you again

2008-07-06T16:06:00.000+07:00

If I ever see you again - Rihanna

[Adam]
Now as the summer fades, I let you slip away
You say I’m not your type, But I can make you sway.
It makes you burn to learn, You’re not the only one
I'd let you be if you put down your blazing gun.

[Rihanna]
Now you’ve gone somewhere else, Far away
I don’t know if I will find you (find you, find you).
But you feel my breath, On your neck
Can’t believe I’m right behind you (right behind you).

[Both]
‘Cause you keep me coming back for more
And I feel a little better than I did before
And if I never see your face again, I don’t mind
‘Cause we gone much further than I thought we'd get tonight

[Rihanna]
Sometimes you move so well
It’s hard not to give in.

[Adam]
I’m lost, I can’t tell
Where you end and I begin.

[Rihanna]
It makes you burn to learn
I'm with another man.

[Adam]
I wonder if he’s half
The lover that I am.

[Adam]
Now you’ve gone somewhere else, Far away
I don’t know if I will find you (find you, find you).
But you feel my breath, On your neck
Can’t believe I’m right behind you (right behind you).

[Both]
‘Cause you keep me coming back for more
And I feel a little better than I did before
And if I never see your face again, I don’t mind
‘Cause we gone much further than I thought we'd get tonight

[Adam]
Baby, baby
Please believe me
Find it in your heart to reach me
Promise not to leave me behind
(Promise not to leave me behind)

[Rihanna]
Take me down, but take it easy
Make me think but don’t deceive me
Talk to me bout taking your time
(Talk to me, talk to me)

[Rihanna]
‘Cause you keep me coming back for more
And I feel a little better than I did before

[Both]
And if I never see your face again, I don’t mind
‘Cause we gone much further than I thought we'd get tonight

[Both]
‘Cause you keep me coming back for more
And I feel a little better than I did before
And if I never see your face again, I don’t mind
‘Cause we gone much further than I thought we'd get tonight

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Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class)

2008-07-06T13:25:00.000+07:00

FINDING NEMO director Andrew Stanton moves from the ocean into the final frontier with this futuristic film from Pixar. On an abandoned Earth where trash has taken over, a robot named WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) accidentally finds the means for humans to return to their planet. Another machine, EVE, leaves to tell humanity the good news, and WALL-E follows her into space.
Source : Wall-E

Venus and Serena Williams will face each other in the 2008 Wimbledon womens' singles final

2008-07-06T09:03:00.000+07:00

Venus and Serena Williams will face each other in the 2008 Wimbledon womens' singles final. This is the third time the two will face off; the last time was in 2003.

Source : Venus vs. Serena in an all-Williams Wimbedon final

Famous Patriotic Songs

2008-07-06T09:00:00.000+07:00

You may know the lyrics to these popular patriotic tunes. But you may be surprised to learn about how they began.

Source : What Are the Origins of Famous Patriotic Songs?

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