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Old 01-21-2012, 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by kyoun1e View Post
I'm actually going for some accupuncture and have a session with a massage therapist tmrw. Maybe that can help with the muscle tension.
I'm all for the those types of treatments if you find them helpful, but I just wanted to point out that we also need to change ourselves from the inside out. It's the brain and the CNS that are generating the stress.

I haven't read this book yet, but plan to as the description caught my attention:

The Open Focus Brain

"This breakthrough book presents a disarmingly simple idea: The way we pay attention in daily life can play a critical role in our health and well-being. According to Dr. Les Fehmi, a clinical psychologist and researcher, many of us have become stuck in “narrow-focus attention”: a tense, constricted, survival mode of attention that holds us in a state of chronic stress—and which lies at the root of common ailments including anxiety, depression, ADD, stress-related migraines, and more. To improve these conditions, Dr. Fehmi explains that we must learn to return to a relaxed, diffuse, and creative form of attention, which he calls “Open Focus.”"

It's well reviewed:

http://www.amazon.com/Open-Focus-Bra...7172611&sr=1-1

If anyone reads it first, please share your thoughts.
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