Ways To Relieve Stress...
And Lift Your Feelings

Relieving Stress Can Relieve Depression and Anxiety

Finding ways to relieve stress is helpful... especially if you have been feeling anxious, stressed or depressed. You can relieve anxiety and stress using various tools... including meditation, affirmations and using healing crystals.

The longer you remain in a stressed and negative state, the harder it is to pick up afterwards.

Life has been quite difficult in recent times, with both the problems in the financial system and a large number of natural disasters happening before our eyes.

Even if you are not personally involved, hearing about these things often makes you feel anxious and sends everyone's stress levels up.

When you feel anxious, it is important to make an attempt to lift your state of mind as soon as possible.

Define Stress ~ So.... What Is Stress?

Stress.... various words may also be used to describe this state: anxiety, tension, anger, depression, irritability, even guilt and sadness... but what is stress?

Stress is a word used to describe the way you feel, when you no longer feel 'normal'. These words you use to label your feelings are describing negative emotions, and these emotions create a disturbance in the energetic field of the body.

You learned the way you handle life from the time you were a child... and this includes many of the ways of you act and feel.

Many of the things that cause you stress now, are caused by your way of thinking and have been created over years and years.

Many of these learned attitudes are habitual... and may have started when you were just a baby.

Stress can affect your overall health, and a number of health issues are related to uncontrolled stress. It is important to learn ways to manage stress as some of you may experience negative feelings every day that stress you, and these feelings are often caused by the way you think.

You may want to think positively and even try hard to do so. You may use various ways to relieve stress, but you often seem to undermine your success.

After a while your negative state of mind... and your feelings, become 'normal'... and these normal (negative) feelings are labeled as stress. Medical professionals say that some types of stress are part of what you use to motivate you to do things.

Unfortunately stress affects your body and when it gets out of control it means you are no longer dealing with your life effectively and may have health issues because of it. When negative thoughts flow through to the body, they may turn into health problems.

The signs of stress include heart disease, high blood pressure and severe tension. This chronic tension can cause muscular pain and heaviness in the body. More than anything you just don't feel happy... and want very much to feel the good sort of 'normal' again.

This means it is time for a change! Time to use new ways to relieve stress.

Using Healing Crystals For Stress Relief

There are a number of excellent crystals that will help you to quickly lift your feelings, as well as relieve some of your depression and anxiety. The lithium based stones work well to improve how you feel... and using them is one of ways to relieve stress you may use to aid you to have a more positive mind set.

The best known of this group are Kunzite, Pink Tourmaline, Lilac Lepidolite, Amblygonite, and the lovely yellowish green Hiddenite... pictured below.

All of the stones in the table further down the page have properties that will help to relieve stress and make you feel more positive. They also have a variety of other positive metaphysical properties...so it is worth reading the pages on the individual crystals to see how else they may aid you.

It is highly beneficial to keep crystals within your auric field, so that you receive the most benefit from their vibration. Wearing healing crystals as jewelry is one of the ways to relieve stress... as this means that their stress relief energy is available throughout the day.

Many offer excellent healing attributes and aid you to develop new gifts. These include developing psychic powers and enhancing creativity, as well as new ways to relieve stress.

Ways To Relieve Stress... Using Crystals

Using crystals is one of the ways to relieve stress you can benefit from. All of the crystals in the following table are excellent crystals to help to relieve stress. Have a look through the following stones, and see if there are any listed below that you already have, as many of these are well known crystals.

Actinolite In Quartz	Ajoite	Amazonite, Amber
Amblygonite	Amegreen	Ametrine
Apophyllite	Aqua Aura Quartz	Aquamarine Stones
Aragonite Star Clusters	Azurite Stone	Ascension Stones
Black Tourmaline	Charoite	Chiastolite
Chrysanthemum Stone	Danburite	Dianite aka Siberian Blue Jade
Dravite	Elestial Quartz	Eudialyte
Goshenite	Green Moss Agate	Hiddenite
Kunzite	Larimar	Lilac Lepidolite
Lithium Quartz	Magnesite	Mt Shasta Opal
Ocean Jasper	Petalite	Pink Rhodonite
Pink Tourmaline	Que Sera Crystals	Red Spinel
Sardonyx	Scolecite	Selenite
Smithsonite	Spurrite aka Strombolite	Staurolite aka Fairy Stones
Stellerite	Sugilite	Sunstones
Tremolite	Tugtupite	Unakite
Variscite	White Topaz	Yellow Topaz

Using these crystals for stress relief is very simple. The two best ways to use their vibration is firstly to keep them on your body and secondly to use them in meditation. Learn easy meditation techniques and hold these stones in your hand while you meditate.

You may also benefit by placing one of these stones under your pillow while you sleep, as you will wake up feeling calmer, more relaxed and refreshed. By having a piece within your auric field for as long as possible each day you will benefit more quickly.

Stress Relief Through Meditation

Meditation is one of the better ways to relieve stress that you have at your disposal. It is highly beneficial to relieve anxiety and stress and you will feel more at peace after doing a meditation. The process of going within is simple... yet many people attempt to make it seem more difficult than it is.

Start by closing you eyes and simply allowing your thoughts to be still. This gets easier and easier... until after a while it is becomes very much second nature. If you hold a particular crystal in your hand from the list above, such as a Chrysanthemum Stone... this will aid the process.

Whilst you are meditating your brain waves need to slow... as ideally their rhythm changes from the beta wave... of normal day to day activities... to the slower alpha wave.

Two particular areas of the brain.... the Amygdala and the Anterior Cingulate Cortex... are known to be related to quieting your mind... allowing you to let go of stress and tension.

Many people say they have trouble quieting their mind and stopping the mind chatter. If you are one of these people who finds it hard to stop those persistent thoughts from interrupting... an effective aid to help you to be able to meditate better is using Isochronic Tones.

If you have not heard of these before, and want more details... click here to go to my article on Isochronic Tones for an in-depth look at how they work. Using these tones assists you... because it works by encouraging these special areas of the brain, to entrain with the new rhythms that are introduced by hearing these tones. As your mind chatter stops, you will go deeper into the meditative (alpha) state.

During meditation you relax. Ways to relieve stress that use meditation may aid your health, as it may improve your blood pressure and ease tension... both related to stress.

Ways To Relieve Stress... Using Affirmations

There have been quite a few books written about the idea of using affirmations. Louise Hay talks about the healing aspects and the power of positive affirmations in her book 'You Can Heal Your Life'. I strongly believe in the effectiveness of affirmations, as they can help you in a variety of ways.

Recently I came across the latest way that this is being utilized, in an amazing program called Mindmaster. This is a program that you install on your computer... and these affirmations or positive phrases of your choice, appear in the background as you are working and subconsciously fill your mind with positive thoughts.

They have a large number of affirmations for different purposes built into the program... including one called 'stress free, be happy and release depression'. Alternatively you can make up your own affirmations and add them in.

What a fantastic idea this is! It is just so easily managed, takes no effort on your part and you are not even conscious of it. Take a look at their video as I think its definitely worth watching.

In Summary

It is imperative that when you feel stressed or anxious, that you endeavor to improve your state of mind as soon as possible. New ways to relieve stress may aid you if you have been feeling anxious, stressed or depressed... and aid you to lift out of it.

Mediation with crystals is one of the tools you can use to aid you to relieve your stress. Many of the crystals on the table above are highlighted with a link. If they are highlighted... this means that there is a whole page about them. You may click on the highlighted name to go to its page.

Using any of the above ways to relieve stress will benefit you... and daily meditation is very useful to help you to relax and think more clearly. This may in itself aid you to let go of some of your stress. I wish you well!