It pops up every seven days on my phone…a message that tells me the daily average amount of time I have been on the phone over the last week, and the percentage of how much that is up or down from the week before.

Sleep is one of the most amazing things you do on a regular basis. There is the sheer amount of time that you give to sleep. About one-third of your time being alive involves lying down in a comfortable position and letting your body and mind rest.

We are so divided. We are so polarized. We nod our heads in agreement or shake our heads in despair. Is there any way we can come together and experience healing? Perhaps we try to picture what that coming together and healing might look like.

One of the biggest stressors that you may be experiencing is time. In one of the great ironies of life, technologies like the Internet and wireless devices were they were supposed to make life easier and more efficient, but we struggle now with time more than we did before we had these amazing inventions.

I would summarize all the difference choices you make to stress into two categories. You can react to stress. You can respond to stress. The words sound the same, but there are subtle differences that can help you in dealing with stress.

The concept of stress suggest that you are constantly faced with the need to adapt to all of the various pressures you experience in your life. In other words, you are constantly feeling the need to adapt to change.You’ve probably heard that, ironically, the one constant in life is change.

We all have our own version of stress. When I share with someone that I help people with stress reduction, it is not unusual for them to respond, “I could use some of that.” Stress is something that we all experience; the word has become a term we use for the various struggles and pressures and challenges that we face in life.