Today I would like to tell you about 4 relaxation techniques that works and hopefully might help you with your stress problem.

1. The first technique is Breathing. Simply sit down in a quiet dark place with a little light and focus your mind on your breathing only. Take deep breath and follow the air as it’s going through your nose, to your throat, to your lungs, and then breathe out. It is not important how deep or shallow your breathing is, just follow the air as it’s going in and out, with your mind. Don’t go into any rationalization of any kind, simply – do it.
2. Exercise! Find your favorite sport activity and spend at least 45 minutes on doing it. If you like walking or swimming, dancing or running, it doesn’t really matter.
3. Talk to someone you trust about your feelings. Sharing is very powerful, and if you find someone who is sympathetic to you and wants to understand just what you are going through, then a good conversation is very helpful.
4. Teach yourself more and more about your condition. Always look for more information about your problem. Read books, go on-line, look for other people who are suffering from the same thing, and talk to them.
5. Go to see your family doctor. After all, they have studied this longer then you have, and they can help a lot. Even if you don’t want to take any medication, your doctor might have some ideas about treating this problem with some natural techniques.

About two years ago, when I was only fifteen, I remember setting up to go to school one cloudy rainy fall day. I did everything I do every morning. Brushed my teeth, combed my hair, washed my face, put all I needed in my school bag, ate a good breakfast that my mother made for me, and rushed to school. Nothing was strange or abnormal, just another day in my routine boring life.
When I got to class, I felt ok. It was three days before a big exam in math and I felt like I was behind the rest of my class mates. I talked to my friend Joe, and then I knew for sure, I was not ready to take that test. When he started talking about all those numbers and functions, I thought he was an alien coming from Mars. After talking to some other friends I thought I was the alien, and the only one in class who had no idea of what’s going on in math class.
Later that day, when I got back home, I started to feel a little weak. I felt strange warmth in my stomach and my sister said I looked a little faint. My head was racing with no goal. It was like thousands of different thoughts ran around my brain like flies making this terrible noise, which I could not handle or stop. I knew something was wrong but I refused to accept it. I only wanted it to go away. Some how I managed to put myself to bed, and fell asleep.

It was only long time after that day, when I had enough courage to speak to some one; trying to understand what the thing was I went thru. My older brother was the one I went to speak to, and he was the one how told me that the thing I felt had a name: Stress, or Anxiety, and what I described to him were anxiety symptoms.
Now I’m on a mission to find ways to handle stress, to learn stress management, and stress relief. I’m looking for relaxation techniques that will help me go through the days.

I don’t know if it’s possible but this is my goal: To cure my problem without any consensual medication.  If I could wish for one thing, it will be this. I want to be stress free, with no anxiety attacks coming to me with no warning in the middle of the day or night.
About one year ago I had a very bad one or two month period of stress condition. And I had panic attacks coming to me almost every day. Now if you have this too, you probably know how it feels. My body is shaking, I fell faint and pale, I can’t think right, I feel this ball of fire going from my stomach and spreading to all of my body parts. I feel like I’m burning from the inside. Everything around me is threatening and scary. I feel great fear. More questions are driving to my brain. Will I be ok again? Will this feeling ever go away? Why this is happening to me?
At that time it was before I saw a doctor about this problem. But one thing I needed for sure, I needed to know how to reduce stress.
I have an older brother, and since I didn’t want to make my parents worry sick, I went to talk to him, to my brother. I asked him about anxiety symptoms and stress symptoms, to see if I can be sure that this is what I actually have.
From his limited knowledge I understood that stress and anxiety is basically what I have. You think “so what? Now you know what you already knew! No big deal!”. Yes, it’s true. But if you never suffer from this you can’t appreciate how good it is when someone, other then you, acknowledges your problem and sympathize with you as a person and not as a serious dazzling disease, like every one else around.
Sine my brother, as great and wonderful as he is, is not a professional doctor, we couldn’t really try to cure my problem, so instead my brother talked about how to reduce stress, and which are good relaxation techniques for stress relief.
At the time I was sure there must be a way to reduce stress without medication, but deep inside of me I was very skeptical about how effective can those techniques be, since it’s not coming out from hard since.
Fortunately, I was so wrong. I found out that Yoga can do wonders, and so a good massage and even a good long walk in the park is a perfect remedy for my problem.
And there are more, like working-out, or guided imagination, working in the garden. As you can see, there are plenty of things one can do while having stressed or panic attacks, to help one to overcome it in a natural harmless way, and without any pills or medication. Now, of course I’m not a trained doctor, and I’m sure that a real doctor can have some more ideas about how to handle stress, but as I said in the beginning, I was looking for ways to do that without medication, and that was my goal to achieve. I can’t say that I did, but I think I’m in the right place and will continue to do more and more things that help me keep a good stress management lifestyle.
From what I read I understand that some activities are good because they release some hormones in the brain which are responsible and control our moods and feelings.
Today I’m very active with sports and Yoga, and few meditation techniques, and all of this helps a lot. I still go for long walks in the park and listen to my favorite music in order to help me reduce stress and anxiety.
I love the fact that these anxiety attacks and stress are no longer running my life for me. I am back in charge again, and basically my own master once again. I can honestly say it is a very good and liberating feeling to have.
I don’t know if stress condition and anxiety attacks are curable or not, but I know for sure there are things that could be done if your feeling bad and stressed, if fear is all around you.

So, never give up, always believe there are ways out of your situation and your dark place. There are always people around that are ready and willing to help, and are stretching their hand for you. All you have to do is reach out and grab those hands, and then you will see that help is around the corner.

All I can tell you is from my own short life experiences, and nothing more. I used to have a stress problem and anxiety attacks up until some one year ago. It started two years ago. Today I feel a lot better and I can look back on that period of time and have a little smile.
Being stress in a chronic way is no fun at all. The stress symptoms are not birthday gifts or any kind of party time. It hurts, and it’s frustrating, and you find yourself in a position where your entire time and mind are occupied by this problem. You just feel like you can not think about anything else.

The problem can grow so big in you, that all of your relationships with parents and friends and neighbors are affected by it. Life itself can become a depressing choir for you. You feel like you don’t want to do anything, or go anywhere. Sometimes nothing seems to be interesting because you believe that when you’ll do that or go there, you’ll be too anxious and stressful to participate or enjoy it.
I remember how hard it was for me to go to school and be with my friends. I remember how hard it was sometimes for me to be with my family which I love dearly. You must know I always was a happy kid who loves to play and do stuff. So you will understand when I’ll tell you I wasn’t ready to give up. I had a stress condition and anxiety attacks, but I was defiantly not depressed. I was looking all the time for ways out of this. I wanted to cure my stress, and if not that, I wanted to know at least how to reduce stress.
When I started reading about my problem and talked to my family doctor and talked to my older brother, I soon realized that being active is very important in order to improve my situation.
I learned that I need to know how to manage my stress. I started looking for ideas and places where I can do some stress management activities in order to reduce my stress level.

1. A lot of people and kids and friends around me think that stress and anxiety is on big deal. Some of them are sure it can’t hurt you in a long run and it’s not really a disease, but just being spoiled or looking for ways to avoid tasks and choirs. Let me tell you this is wrong! Stress can affect your heart condition, acne, blood pressure and more. It can be the reason for many to turn into alcohol and drugs. So in short a long term stress problem is something you need to take care of.
2. Your hair may fall as a cause of stress. Doctors will tell you that, but they will also tell you that stress can not make your hair turn grey; this will happen to you normally as you will grow old.
3. There is no good stress. You can feel a rush from doing an important task, or doing something big for yourself or others, but this is not stress. When I talk about stress or anxiety, I’m referring to the chronic condition of it.
4. Rich people can have stress issues like any one else. If you think that because they have all this money, they are immune from anxiety attacks or chronic stress problems, and then think again. You must know that people are people where ever you go. Money doesn’t keep you away from stress problems. You might say that if there is no financial worries then should be no stress, but it doesn’t work this way. After all, having lots and lots of money is a very big thing to worry about, because you don’t want it to go away, and you don’t want to be in situation where someone might rob you or hurt you just for your money.

Two weeks ago I met my friend Rob. He told me about some anxiety symptoms, and stress symptoms he was experiencing for the last couple of weeks. Naturally I was identifying with him, and what he had to go through.
Rob told me he was doing some reading in our school library, and that he saw in some books that there are ways to control and handle stress in natural ways.
I was very happy to hear that, having a stress problem myself, because I didn’t want to take any anxiety medication, and always was a very little fan of pills of any kind, for any reason.
Rob told me he tried out some of these natural cures like meditation and Yoga and long walks in the park. He said that he read somewhere that physical activities like those and like sport are releasing very important hormones in the body and brain which control our mood and are very affective in reducing anxiety and stress.
Rob told me he started walking daily in the park next to his house, 45 minuets to one hour. He said that every time, when he’s done he feels so much better, light in body and mind, stress free, and clear headed.

Let me tell you all, I did the same as Rob, and, surprisingly, got the same results. It was fantastic! I found at least one way of handling stress and anxiety attacks without any medication, naturally. I’m so happy. I feel on the right truck.

My stress problem started 2 years ago when I was only fifteen years old. When it’s started I was embarrassed about it, and confused as for what I need to do about it.
I used to have anxiety attacks which was overwhelming for me and didn’t quit knew what to do about it. So my first reaction was to deny it, and make myself believe everything is ok and that I have no problem. It took a while for me to realize I can’t ignore my feelings and situation and understood that something had to be done about it.
I didn’t want to go to my family doctor with this so I started looking for some alternative ways of understanding the anxiety symptoms, and stress symptoms, and of curse how to reduce stress and control it.

I searched the internet, and found lots of stuff in it about my condition and problem. From what I read I understood I should not look for cure, and instead I should look for ways to handle stress and for stress management techniques.
I learned that I need to know how to cope with stress, instead of looking for way to cure anxiety. But even though I’m more ready to find natural ways to deal with stress I’m still very much looking for an ultimate cure for this thing, because getting rid of it will be perfect!!
For now I’m doing all I can to handle my life and go through it with stress and anxiety, because they are here, and simply pretending their not, is not going to make them go away. So I must learn to leave with it, and at the same time, on the other hand I do all I can to educate myself on the problem, hopping I’ll come across the one cure that will set me free from these unpleasant feelings.

I was suffering from stress condition for quit some times now. At first I was embarrassed about it, until I found out it was all around me. After talking to many of my family members and friends I realized I was not alone with this problem, and that I have nothing to be ashamed about. I don’t know if most people have this condition nowadays, but it certainly feels like it. I can see, and sense it everywhere.
Just thinking I’m all by myself with this problem, as I thought till not long ago, gave me anxiety attacks. So I had to find some relaxation techniques, or anxiety medication. I wanted to find cure for myself.
You must think “go to the doctor” right? Well of course that’s the first thing I did. But I found, not to my surprise, he only knows how to treat it at best, with pills and remedies. I wanted something different. I wanted a way to heal with as less medication as possible.
There are ways that I found to relief stress without chemistry, but I still check them to see how effective they are.
All I know is one thing – so many of us suffer from this condition, and the person whom will find cure for this once and for all, will have, on top of lots of dollars, also my unconditional admiration and respect.
The world needs cure for stress and anxiety now. Just as much as it needs cure for AIDS or Cancer.