The notion of "stress management" is definitely not what it used to be. Most recently, research in the area of neuroscience
reveals some startling evidence for the effectiveness of certain interventions that reduce stress on the body and the mind. Reducing stress is now linked with learning to recognize the overload of negative emotions on your nervous system. Negative emotions such as anger, resentment, frustration, hopelessness, and anxiety create irregularities in your heartbeat which send messages of chaos to your brain and which consequently contribute to physical illness. This is a negative loop that feeds on itself and is a situation in which many people in our world are living right now.  That is what we call "chronic stress".
Chronic stress commonly leads to some of the following physical problems:
Insomnia
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
Fibromyalgia
Chronic back pain
Clinical Depression
Extreme anger/ rage episodes

The end result, however, is not doom and gloom. For those who are willing to put the time and effort into it, there are ways to reduce the overload of negative emotions and change the negative thought/feeling habits to positive ones. Successful stress reduction will result in marvelous benefits for your life, in some of the following areas:

Personal Performance
Well Being
Overall Physical Health
Creativity
Motivation
Mental Clarity
Emotional Balance
Effectiveness in your work performance
Improved relationships

Based on years of work in my therapy practice (and some new discoveries from the area of neuroscience), I (Anne Milligan) will suggest to you a treatment regimen for stress management which includes the following:

• Daily meditation using Anne Milligan's meditation CD entitled INTO THE LIGHT: MINDFULNESS MEDITATION FOR RELAXATION, HEALING, AND STAYING WELL
  
• A total commitment to DAILY EXERCISE for the rest of your life.
• A balanced eating plan. Food does play a big part in how you manage stress. Getting used to depending on unhealthy "comfort foods" such as greasy, sugary, fatty foods to manage stress is  a "recipe" for disaster. Eliminate as many boxed, processed foods as possible and eat more natural fruits and vegetables, beans and legumes.  Processed foods (as opposed to natural foods) cause a sudden rise and fall of your blood sugars which often causes you to be hungry for more of the same kind of food in a short time. Natural foods tend to digest more slowly and so you can go for longer periods of time without cravings.
• Exinguish negative thoughts through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Anne Milligan 1:1. You can learn to have more positive thoughts,  improve your mood,  EXPECT MORE for yourself and your life, and draw more peace into your life through 1:1 therapy.

CALL FOR AN APPOINTMENT TODAY. Anne Milligan. 502-423-0220 in Louisville, KY.