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Transcendental Meditation May Keep Your Heart Beating—and Ease College Anxiety

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Two new studies provide compelling reasons to consider taking up Transcendental Meditation (TM).
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Dark Chocolate: The New Antianxiety Drug?

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Does eating dark chocolate every day for two weeks affect the way the body metabolizes stress hormones? A new study finds it may be a good way to relieve stress naturally.
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Banish Holiday Stress With This Simple Yoga Stretch

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It seems like all the yoga we do these days is to strengthen our abs and tighten flab, but as we enter the holiday season yoga is a great way to relax, too. Certain yoga stretches are prime de-stressing tools.
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Orchestra Makes Music With Vegetables, Pumpkins May Cure Yeast Infections, and the Most Effective Stress Relievers

Daily Picks for Tuesday, November 3: A look at what Health.com editors are reading today
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Relieve Stress Naturally With Eagle Pose

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One of the best yoga postures for stress relief is Eagle pose. It opens up your shoulders, releases neck tension, strengthens your quads, and engages your core.
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Treat Your Coworker Like a Child: How to Tame a Terrible Boss or Office Bully

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Having a boss or coworker who’s a bully not only makes your life miserable, it can literally make you sick. Luckily, I’ve found a book that might help you cope.
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My Summer Vacation: Herbal Medicine, the Beach, and a Case of Bahamas Brain

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Besides a quick weekend trip here and there, I’d been vacation-less for four years. It’s not that I’m anti-vacation. It’s just that spare cash and free time hadn’t coincided in my life for a while. Happily, things changed over the summer, so my husband and I immediately started researching beach getaways.
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Magic Move: Stress Be Gone

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Kiss work kinks good-bye with this simple stress-reducing stretch.
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The Health Benefits of a Weekend Getaway

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My first cousin Laura asked me and another cousin, Liz, to join her on a weekend getaway. And a new study says that was just what I needed to get rid of the harmful stress hormones I’ve been carrying around.
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Chill Out and Feel Better With an Herbal Iced Tea

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Are you doing a little porch-sitting, either literally or just in your imagination, now that summer’s truly here and the sun is finally shining? That’s an activity that demands a refreshing beverage, and I’d like to make a suggestion: Consider
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Health’s Summer Playlist

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Fill your iPod with tunes that transport you to summers past and melt off the stress.
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Unwind and Recharge With Half Moon Pose

You’ve likely had to make tough changes to adapt to an even tougher economic climate. If you’re having trouble adjusting, take a cue from the moon with Half Moon Pose.
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Lift Spirits, Ease Stress With Gratitude and Walking Meditation

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I’ve been feeling super sorry for myself because I was supposed to be far, far away this weekend at a rustic cabin in the woods by a babbling brook, with my sweet hubby and our two cute little dogs. So I was sad and angry when I heard that our weekend plans fell through. I was working myself into a really good state of “Why me?” until my stronger self took over.
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Get a Better Night’s Sleep

Looking for a better night’s sleep? Who isn’t these days? For the last few months, I’ve been having a tough time falling asleep—until I started using this.
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Reiki: The No-Touch Stress Reliever

The notion that a therapist can pass her hands over your clothed, supine body for an hour or so and successfully coax every iota of stress out of you has a too-good-to-be-true ring about it. But that’s been my experience with Reiki, a Japanese technique said to promote healing.
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Tapping My Way Past Fears and Phobias

I first caught wind of the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) during the aftermath of 9/11. I’d heard that some therapists were treating Ground Zero workers, survivors, and volunteers with a bizarre-sounding “tapping” technique that was said to be astonishingly effective for easing post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Garden Therapy: Ease Anxiety and Grow Your Own (Nearly) Free Veggies

This winter has been utterly miserable, weather-wise—snowstorms, followed by several frigid days and ice-slicked sidewalks. I’ve had it. The calendar may say it’s spring, but the weather hasn’t warmed up. I’m taking matters into my own hands
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