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Greetings. Here’s an interview with Jacob Needleman, world renowned philosopher, teacher and professor at San Francisco State University.

It is a very interesting discussion about MONEY. Most of us are preoccupied with money in the best of times, but now we’re under what I call the “crush of financial stress”.

Financial stress is especially insidious because money is a proxy for staying alive and so chronic worry about money triggers our survival fight or fight response. Something that puts us at risk for physical breakdown and psychological misery. Recent studies leave no doubt that stress hormones contribute to heart disease, cancer and diabetes and trigger anxiety and depression as well.

Jacob Needleman explains how our views about money tell us a great deal about ourselves. And how on the one hand we think about money too much, but on the other hand, we don’t think about money enough–in ways that really matter.

Too often we fail to recognize the role that money needs to play in securing the things that really make life worth living. Things we’ll never find at the mall.

I love this interview—enjoy…Jim Manganiello

Stressful thoughts and feelings about money are not always the final truth, but they will present themselves to you as if they were. Yes you may have money problems, even severe ones—but that doesn’t mean that all hope is lost.

Again, try not to let the saber-toothed tigers in your mind get you too charged up because they’ll throw your energy off balance and trigger your fight or flight response. Then toxic stress hormones will leak into your blood and tissues.

If you follow these worried and frightened thoughts and believe in them, then your financial stress can toss you into waking nightmares. You can get so charged up in mind and body that you don’t realize that what you’re worrying about—isn’t actually happening. That’s why you’ve got to learn how to “stay awake”.

Otherwise you’ll be starring in endless waking dream battles, battles that your body will mistake as true and real life or death struggles. This will leave your mindbody in chronic fight or flight—you’ll be at risk for health problems and the misery of chronic anxiety and depression.

Financial stress goes to the bone of our deepest concern–staying alive.

Hard to look anywhere today without seeing how quickly prices have gone up. My two dogs biscuits have gone form $3.99 to $5.49. At least they don’t realize it. Gas is ridiculous and now it seems that $3.68 a gallon is a low price. Heating oil is over the top. Could go on and on. As I’m sure you know.

Add to that the debt driven stock market and real estate debacles. Once again people already wealthy have been able to juice the system and leave a huge mess for everyone else to clean up.

If you’ve been close to foreclosure or watched your life savings shrink along with the value of your home, or if you just feel beaten up after shopping for groceries–be alert to a real danger. The danger of saber tooth tigers attacking you.

We’re hard wired for a survival response known as the fight or flight response. It kicks in when we’re faced with life-threatening danger. It’s meant for short term use only. The problem is that this hard wiring is not well suited for life today. It’s meant for conditions that are long gone.

It too often triggers in error, when we’re fearful and worried too much. Especially when we’re worried about conditions that reflect or symbolize survival risk, conditions like chronic financial stress.

Our ancestors faced the danger of being lunch for saber toothed tigers. When suddenly confronting that danger–they’d move in to flight or flight–so they could run or fight like hell. If they survived–the fight or flight response would shut down before too long.

Today we face fierce saber toothed tigers. The ones roaming around in our mind. They eat us up with fear and worry and leave us floating around on a river of stress hormones. Many thousands of people drown in this river every day.

If you’re facing chronic financial stress, do your best to develop an action plan that will empower you to feel in control. Seek help doing that–from reliable sources.

Exercise and relaxation training can be very helpful. So can deep breathing. Try taking three deep diaphragmatic breaths, breaths coming into and going out from an area just below your breastbone. On the out breath–just let it go. Don’t walk the breath out–just release it. If you’re alone–sigh on the out breath. At the end of the out breath is a relaxed state, one calm and clear. Tune yourself to that as best as possible. That will help free you from a saber toothed tiger or two.

If you let these saber toothed tigers in your mind alone–without becoming identified or distracted by them–they’ll just come and go. Without triggering the fight or flight response.

We live in strange times on some level. Many people worry about preparing for retirement–yet they don’t give any thought to preparing for death.

I try to remember and connect to the things that really make life worth living. Even the little things like seeing the joy on my dogs faces when they get their expensive bones.

 

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Greetings. Stress Radio Podcasts will be include interviews with exceptional people, people I sought out as highly regarded authorities on stress and its impact on your health and your quality of life.

This is an interview I did with Dr. James Lynch, an outstanding clinical psychologist and mindbody scientist. Listen to him explain the Language of the Heart and the incredible changes that go on inside of your body—“when you speak”.

The real facts about stress are not commonly known. Some important ones are in this interview.

The health consequences of chronic stress are deep and devastating to mind and body. The more you know about what stress really is, the more you can be aware, well-informed and prepared—so you can “Dodge the Stress Bullet”.

It’s an amazing interview—it will open your eyes wide…to a deeper picture of what stress is all about.

Enjoy…Jim Manganiello

Job Stress is the single greatest source of stress in the world
today and it’s maiming and killing people in large numbers. The
shifting patterns of work brought on by globalization and
outsourcing have left many people struggling with feeling
overworked, underpaid and undervalued.

Many people think that outsourcing to countries like India and
China has left American and western European workers
screwed while benefiting Indian and Chinese workers tremendously.
But a closer look tells a different story.

Indians working long hours answering telephone calls from
America and Europe show signs of chronic Job Stress: Heart
Disease, Insomnia, Musculoskeletal Pain and Injury, Depression
and serious Family Problems.

It’s even worse in China. Some Chinese factory workers do
boring, monotonous work for 16 hours a day for little money.
Working under firm deadlines and on high speed assembly
lines—they lose or break about 40,000 fingers annually. And many
of these fingers belong to kids. Chinese factories doing work
for American and European countries often abuse their workers.

Bottom line—work has lost its soul for many people, including
many high paid Americans. Work with soul is work with a
meaningful and a loving connection to life and to others. Such
work used to be quite common. Not any more.

Everything now is moving in the direction of speed and profit
and big time Job Stress—Job Stress that’s ruining the health and
family life of more and more people.

Not good news. But there are solutions.

How about you? How’s your Job? You stressed out?

Well my plans for getting the SR blog and Podcasts going were
sidetracked.

I’ve been researching and writing a new digital book on STRESS –
full time–for about a month now.

It started out to be a much smaller project but once I got into
the material it led the way into much more.

Should have it done soon. I bet it will blow your mind. I was
stunned by what I came across and I think you’ll be too.

On the Podcast front–will be turning to tidy up some editing and
then we’ll be starting things off with an orientation podcast and
an interview I did awhile back with Dr. Jim Lynch. The interview
puts STRESS on a much larger canvas than usual.

You’ll see why your Heart has a language of it’s own and what you
need to know and do to decode its messages.

Hope you’re life is going well and that you’re “Dodging the
Stress Bullet”.

Talk soon…Jim

 

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DO YOU KNOW WHAT STRESS RADIO IS ALL ABOUT?

This brief Podcast will let you discover some things about STRESS that will not only astonish you, but that will also open your eyes to what you need to do and why.

Here’s why subscribing to Stress Radio Podcasts will save you from a lot of pain and unhappiness. Consider this: Stress drives the six leading causes of death today, and it’s the #1 health problem in all of the industrialized world.

And consider how good you’ll feel with the greater energy, better health and enhanced quality of life you’ll enjoy when Stress Radio shows you how to “dodge the stress bullet”.

We all want to live long and well. But we won’t unless we learn to dodge this dangerous bullet. It makes life miserable and it maims and kills.

That’s why Stress Radio’s purpose is to empower you to “Dodge the Stress Bullet”. You’ll live a whole lot better and longer as a result.

Enjoy…Jim Manganiello

Check back soon as we begin to build the new Stress Radio
website!

We’ll give you the real skinny on stress.

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FOR NOW KEEP THIS THOUGHT IN MIND
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STRESS is not only about sitting in traffic, having a nasty boss,
a tough job, or a troubled relationship–though it’s about all of
these.

“STRESS is also about not living from your Heart, not
doing what you want and love.”

Stress Radio will give you what you need to say KNOW to stress–
so you can live long and well.

Check back soon and often. It wouldn’t be the same without you.

Take care…Jim Manganiello