By Vivian Hildebrandt, MA & Lynne Hoft, EdD

By Lynne Hoft, EdD & Vivian Hildebrandt, MA

Stress is a feeling. It gets mixed in with anxiety, worry, concern, and other unhappy feelings. Because these feelings range from discomfort to serious pain we often try to avoid recognizing and dealing with them. Culturally we’re taught to look outside of ourselves for a remedy to these uncomfortable feelings. We might anesthetize ourselves with a few drinks, with a buying spree, with TV or computer games, drugs, sex or any number of other feel-good “cures”. There is a much simpler way to deal with stressful feelings.

When Brilliance is In Stress is Out

By Lynne Hoft, Ed.D and Vivian Hildebrandt, MA

Have you ever asked yourself, is stress normal? Does stress just happen to us? Can we eliminate it? To answer these questions, we must understand what stress is. In most situations, stress is a negative feeling showing us that we are attached to our thinking. Like all feelings, stress is a messenger, letting us know whether we are in our center and experiencing our brilliance or spinning in our thought patterns. Stress management is possible.