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Manicure and pedicure gets you stress relief. What’s your opinion?

Let me explain

My wife took me to get stress relief from a manicure and pedicure on this beautiful summer’s day. I always look forward to these visits with anticipation of what I will learn about stress relief. Observing people in the spa or salon is always an amazing experience for me.

The first thing I noticed is that two ladies paid for their services before they had the manicure. After probing a little bit I discovered that these ladies did not want to get their nails smudge after the manicure. I also discovered that they were small fans available to dry your nails.

However, some clients were in a hurry so they could not wait a few moments for their nails to dry. Some clients rush to prepay because they could not wait for their nails to dry naturally. So the question is when do you relax when you go to have a pedicure and a manicure?

It would appear that you relax when you are physically held by the hand for a manicure and the feet for a pedicure. It is that tiny moment that you relax and enjoy stress relief. O what a wonderful moment.

The other question is what is your purpose for having a manicure and pedicure? Is it to attend a special function? Is it to go away on holiday?

Maybe it is just for the chance to pamper your self. So are you getting a manicure and pedicure for yourself or to be noticed by others? Then when you are finished there is the stress of navigating opening the door with wet nails.

There is another challenge if you choose to stay and allow your nails to dry. How do you handle all those thought that are rushing thought your head? These thoughts are about all the things that need to be done while you are wasting precious time sitting in a chair drying your nails.

So what is the moral of the story?

There are many myths about relaxation. The biggest myth is that we need to allow other people to help us relax. This myth has some value because we are generally too busy to stop and get the tools which allow us to take a break by ourselves and be able to relax anywhere, anytime.

Cecil McIntosh, The EYC™ Stress Circuit Breaker with 14 years of experience helping Entrepreneurs like you, stay focused, get more done and find more time, so that you can live in the moment. He is a published author of many audio Relaxation Programs using accelerated learning approaches and a Teacher, NLP Trainer and Coach. You can reach Cecil at cecil.mcintosh@gmail.com

Learn how to focus for success so that you get more done and find more time to enjoy stress relief. - Split Second Stress relief

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Baby boomers and moms can enjoy stress relief by being perfect in an imperfect world.

Let me explain

I experienced profound stress relief on Thursday Jan12, 2006, when I gave my first teleseminar. The topic was “Get answers to your 12 most important questions about overwhelm.” When you are presenting a new project there are a lot of things that can go wrong.

For example I thought I understood how to use the different codes on the phone for conducting the teleseminar. When the call began it was like walking and chewing gum at the same time. While I was doing my presentation (walking), I very quickly discovered that I did not know or was not familiar with how to mute out the noises and how to open and close the line (chewing gum).

This experience is very important because sometimes you may feel that you are not ready to handle a new situation. This awareness should also remind you that you are not perfect if you were ever considering such thoughts.

In my case I did the best I could under the circumstances, knowing that this was only the beginning of my experience with presenting teleseminars. Stress relief for me was experiencing a new beginning. Interestingly enough I got emails after the call congratulating me on the call.

Here is one comment, “Just want to let you know that I really enjoyed your teleseminar last night. Sorry if I was noisy; I was calling from a supermarket at that time, but I’m really glad I did. You were really great and I would call in again. I was taking notes and I really felt like I learned a lot. It’s a great tool!” R .P.

So what is the moral of the story?

It is difficult to grow by standing still. You need to move out of your comfort zone and use the feedback from what you did right or wrong to help you grow and expand.

Cecil McIntosh, The EYC™ Stress Circuit Breaker with 14 years of experience helping Entrepreneurs like you, stay focused, get more done and find more time, so that you can live in the moment. He is a published author of many audio Relaxation Programs using accelerated learning approaches and a Teacher, NLP Trainer and Coach. You can reach Cecil at cecil.mcintosh@gmail.com

Learn how Baby boomers and Moms can focus for success so that they can get more done and find more time to enjoy stress relief. - Split Second Stress relief

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada License.