Probably the best method for reducing acute stress and anxiety that I have heard of is eye movement techniques.

ITs commercialized as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).

A psychologist named Friedberg caught some flack for just putting the technique down in a book in an easy to use manner.

I think he really annoyed the EMDR clinicians that want a 100 dollars an hour to tell you to move your eyes back and forth horizontally . . . or to tap rythmically on opposite sides of your body.

I despise people that complicate simple stuff to make money.

What he writes down is identical to EMDR. Also, eye access techniques are not new, they have been around for along time.

I know several people that use the technique all the time to break negative thought patterns, deal with anxiety, or even simple stress.

Here is a link to the book on Amazon:

Eye movement

I read a lot about that method as a means of treating PTSD. They had a lot of success with it.

yeah. the FBI flew them in after the Oklahoma Bombing to help people. Also the Veterans Administration now uses it as their preferred tool for PTSD (post tramautic stress disorder).

Its a ridiculously simple technique. Friedberg extrapolates it out to some more mundane issues. . everything from chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, eating disorders, to a simple 5 minute relaxation technique.

Its really the best technique I have learned . . and I have taken meditation classes and relaxation seminars etc.

ITs also so fast. I mean you can break a negative thought or anxiety in a couple seconds.

Any new ideas to reduce anxiety?
 

I am on spring break right now, which is supposed to be relaxing. I didn't even fly home this year so I would have time to decompress. Unfortunately...the only thing that has been comsuming my mind is school work: the info that still needs to be taught before the standardized tests in three weeks, the two projects for my grad class, papers that need to be graded, my plan for an observed lesson for when I get back next week, phone calls to parents for the upcoming field trip.

I am hoping that by biting the bullet and going into school tomorrow to put in a workday, I'll have the calls done, papers graded and inputted, and the templates for the grad project to bring home.

I hate being a worrier! I'm so jealous of people who can just let things go and know that things will work out. So, are there any new suggestions on dealing with the stress and anxiety of work?
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Drink, Take Perscription Drugs and Get Hooked!

Talk with Friends and Heed! Your Greek Friends will help You for more and a lot lsss cheaper than Psycho Docs.

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You should try eating or maturbating.

Do you even read the damn threads before you spam them??

Yeah, that's what I thought.

my post is better than Reply from Dionysus
 

The reply from Dionysus was uncalled for, my method is much better ;)

Personally I prefer sex to some overpriced crap.

I deal with stress by choking the living shit out of the fucking idiot spammers on Greek Chat.

Really? Is spamming really that stress relieving?

What's awesome is that a quick search of your email address reveals your full name and phone number, as well as the fact that you have blocked fallopian tubes. Nice.

She sent me this email back:

How stressful