Happiness is hard to define. In my clinics and seminars I have ventured to define love. I have ventured to define hope. I have ventured to define pleasure, but I am at a loss to define happiness.

• Happiness is far more than the absence of trouble.
• Happiness is more than getting what you want. It is more than wanting what you have.
• Happiness is more than appreciating the good things that happen to you.

Thank you for coming to our Stresstember Seminar. Here’s a reminder of one of the techniques we covered.

When you come face to face with a stressful situation, remember that this is just the stressor. It is not stress yet, you have to turn it into stress for it to downgrade your health. So decide that you will never give that power to a stressful situation, you will use your brain and all your powers to cancel any negative impact that it might have on your heart, your immune system.

Summer’s ending, back from vacation, and back to school – Dr. Kenford Nedd will tell you how to gain power over STRESStember. He might even help Riaz Meghji out with his 20-storey rappel.

12 TIPS FOR DEALING WITH DEPRESSION IN MARRIAGE

Every body is talking about stress but few have practical scientific tools to deal effectively with it. Here are a few ideas which I would like you to consider.

1. Keep your mind on what you are for and off of what you are not for.
2. Worry gets you no where, send positive energy instead with your thoughts
3. Be aware of how the circumstances are affecting your body, check out your neck and shoulders, shake it out and let the tension go. Sit up or stand up straight and smile
4. Beware of uncertainty, be confident that you will win and think that and project I it in your attitude, words and actions
5. You may not have control over the situation but at least control how you choose to feel about the situation at any moment

How to become W.E.A.L.T.H.Y.

Here’s a quick prescription that will help you gain wealth in your life. It is simple but not easy!

Everyone is talking about Stress but few people really understand its pernicious impact on human physiology.

As September approaches and the holidays ends, stress increases and the conflict between work and home deepens. In this climate of financial uncertain, American and Canadian nervousness is at its peak, and the demand on the cells of the body and brain is more severe and we can stand in our shoes and suffer thru the fall and watch stress erodes our health, creativity, cognition and work performance.

One of the most important steps to living a more fulfilling and happy life is the practice of Awareness. Awareness leads to control and control leads to happiness.

Here are a few ideas that you can install in your daily routine to increase your awareness:

1. When you walk down the street, open your eyes wide and see what you see and hear what you hear. Turn up the level of your understanding. Bring yourself fully to all your experiences.

2. If you find your job repetitive, pay great attention to what you are doing. Notice how you use your hands, how your fingers move. Pretend that it is a massively important task you are doing and do it with crazy enthusiasm.

3. Focus your awareness inwards as well as outwards. Pay attention to the inside of your body; get to know how you really are feeling inside. Bring your full attention to your body.

4. Pay attention to your emotions. Notice the feelings you entertain in your mind at any given moment, joy, peace, love, anger, fear, self-doubt, and sadness. Pay attention to the occupants of your mental space.

5. Become more aware of how you relate to your loved ones. Take nothing for granted. Bring more awareness to every conversation, every disagreement. Listen with acute awareness to how you talk to them, not only to your words but your tone, inflection, pitch, the emotion in your voice etc. Know how you communicate.