It's all over the news.  Stress is affecting the health of business owners across the country.  Worry about money and the economy is making people sick left and right.  Some of them even die from stress-related diseases.

Even if they have jobs, people are stressed.  They often have to work for two, because their former colleagues have left or were let go.  They worry about hanging on to the job they have and consider themselves lucky.  But how come they don't feel all that lucky -- just worn-out, tired, discouraged, and maybe depressed.  

And stressed... there's no additional pay to compensate them for all that extra work.   

For the longest time, stress was just a joke.  People prided themselves of being stressed. That meant they were important.  They were needed. They had too much to do.

The problem is that stress is not a joke at all.  Some of those people got sick a long time ago.  But we haven't been hearing all that much about it -- not until recently.

Now, stress is taking on epidemic proportions.  It's no longer possible to sweep it under the rug. It's hurting people -- and killing them.

Is stress hurting you?

Maybe it's "just" affecting the quality of your life, your career, your health. But you better believe it -- your life itself is at risk when you're constantly dealing with excess stress.

Of course, stress doesn't feel good:

• You're freaked out. 

• You don't know what to do.

•  You wish you could just crawl under the covers... or that it would all just GO AWAY!

•  You're afraid you'll explode, and wonder if that may not be a good thing...

• You don't know what to do 

But that's not the half of it.

• Stress causes high blood pressure

• Stress causes diabetes

• Stress causes belly fat

• Stress causes fatigue

• Stress causes your brain to turn to mush

And stress even kills people,
directly or indirectly.

Though most of the time it doesn't, at least not right away, and so it leaves you right in the situation that caused all that stress in the first place and you still need to figure out a way to cope.

By using these powerful techniques, I quickly regain my inner calm, which allows me to do what needs to get done -- quickly and efficiently. Oh ...and calmly.

Would YOU like to get your LIFE back? You CAN!

So go ahead and dive in. Apply them right away -- any time you feel the least bit stressed.

Don't wait until you're so stressed you can't think straight anymore!

After years and years of being routinely stressed almost beyond the breaking point, I had a huge AHA experience:  When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, my first thought was relief!  Finally, it would be all over!

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer,
my first thought was relief!
Finally, it would be all over!

That was no way to live!  In fact, I probably wouldn't be alive if I hadn't learned, gradually at first, and more deliberately and quickly later, what to do to help myself "snap out of it." I learned to calm myself, enough to do well in my exams and to keep doing the things that needed to get done.

Especially after my breast cancer diagnosis, once I decided that YES, I wanted to live after all!  I made some major changes.  And one thing that was essential was to get a grip on that stress thing.

What was so stressful?

I was a foreign student working on a Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley.  Money was tight.  I found myself in a panic attack every time tuition was due and I didn't know how to pay for it.

Because English was not my first language, I was not a very fast reader, and so I often panicked when I realized that there was more reading to do for the upcoming test than I could possibly accomplish even if I read around the clock.

And those tests themselves...

In fact, I got one of my most valuable lessons in a workshop I took after I freaked out during a test -- I knew I had a problem.  And I was determined to fix it.

How do I know this works for others too?

As a professor, I taught those same techniques to my students.  And yes,  they worked for them too.  They also learned to stay calm in the middle of the storm.

And of course, then there was a much bigger challenge that was yet to come:

I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

And that's when I went on a mission.  I knew that my ongoing stress had affected my immune system, and I needed to make changes.

As I  applied the strategies I had learned, my life improved.

But it was only a few years ago when I discovered some of the most powerful strategies of all, the ones that INSTANTLY helped me calm down, no matter what.

And they will help you too.

I'd like to invite you to take charge of your emotions with:

Instant Stress Relief Strategies:

The Emergency Rescue Toolbox

To Reclaim your Inner Calm

Any Time You Get Stressed