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A key to a healthy lifestyle is learning how to deal with life's distress. No one can completely avoid stress. It is a natural reaction to everyday challenges and changes in the context of life situations and patterns learned early in life.

Both positive and negative situations can create the feelings of being overwhelmed and out of control. What is most important, though, is not the stressors themselves, but how a person reacts to them.

So what can a person do to cope? In addition to recommending the use of "The Gift of Sleep," we have prepared a list of Stress Tips to help with managing life's distress.

• Help With Exercise Resolutions
  
• Handling New Year's Resolutions
  
• Create a priority list for the holidays
  
• Organize your work space
  
• Exercise regularly
  
• Practice eliciting the Relaxation Response
  
• Just do it: Overcoming procrastination
  
• Use reflective coping for managing anger
  
• Let yourself laugh more
  
• Be more accepting of yourself
  
• Slow down to enjoy life

• Handling Holiday Stress
  
• Create A Holiday Priority List
  
• Making Resolutions You Can Keep
  
• What To Do About the January Blahs