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Ways Photography Helps You To Manage Stress And Anxiety 

December 17, 2020 By Administrator

By Lucy Wyndham

Amateur photographers David Crook & Judy Crook Vorfeld@ Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix

3 Ways Photography Helps You To Manage Stress And Anxiety 

Over 70% of individuals who experience stress and anxiety every day say it affects their lives moderately, according to ADAA. Everyone deals with mental and emotional stress at some point in their lives. It could be work-related stress or life stresses like getting married, divorce, financial problems, and chronic illness. Luckily, you can overcome stress and anxiety if you take time out to refocus and gain a new perspective about life. And there is no better way to do so than engaging in photography.  

Photography acts as a distraction that eliminates negative thoughts and helps you change your way of thinking. The moment you stop to capture an image can significantly transform your life because you begin to evaluate your surroundings through a new lens. Besides, you don’t need expert guidance on stress management using a camera. Here’s how photography helps you manage stress and anxiety.

Allows You To Reframe The World 

The simple act of taking photographs helps you relieve stress because you can re-imagine your surroundings. This means you can place personal values, interests, and thoughts to reframe the world with what you want to see and feel through photography. In short, you have the freedom to choose what you pay attention to and what you eliminate from the frame. The satisfaction that comes with reframing the world around you creates self-awareness, mindfulness, and positive insights. Nurturing mindfulness improves your mental wellbeing as you’ll start viewing things objectively, instead of jumping to conclusions.

Photos Trigger Emotions 

Images have the power to evoke positive and negative emotions. For example, looking at photos that depict happiness makes you cheerful, just like inhaling warm scents reduces cravings for unhealthy snacking. On the other hand, viewing photographs that display sadness triggers negative thoughts and stress. This is because the repetition of the same photos affects how you feel. That’s why you should always focus on photography practices that trigger positive feelings in your mind. Taking pictures of nature, architecture, and anything that uplifts your moods lowers anxiety levels, reduces stress, and makes you feel relaxed, peaceful, love, and compassionate.

Improves Focus And Life Experiences

While therapeutic photography does not require you to take perfect shots, you still need to put your attention outside the mind. Doing so distracts you from thinking about unpleasant events or situations that trigger anxiety. Instead, you focus on viewing things deeply, from a different angle, and connect more with what you hear, feel, and think. Embracing photography as a self-therapy tool also helps enhance life experiences, which evokes happiness. Elements that once seemed ordinary become more meaningful. For instance, a simple rose flower can transform into a breathtaking gift of nature when you capture it on camera as it begins to bloom.

Therapeutic photography entails capturing, evaluating, and using photographs for self-healing, expression, growth, and understanding. Whether you do it consciously or unconsciously, photography enables you to reframe your environment. It also evokes emotions and helps improve focus and everyday experiences. When viewed from different angles, the simple things in life become meaningful.

Complete guide to stress management and time management for students

October 9, 2020 By Administrator

Discovered an excellent document and placed a link on Webgrammar’s Health page. It has applications for many people in addition to students. Take time to read it and I believe you’ll see the value. The Complete guide to stress management and time management for students was written by Emma Carlile:

Emma Carlile has worked in international education for nearly twenty years, working in a variety of roles from teacher to academic manager, managing a range of programmes and academic subjects. She has also worked in welfare, student experience and safeguarding roles. Emma has worked in higher education institutions in France, Russia and the UK and has over a decade of UCAS Counselling experience. Her teaching has ranged from GCSEs to postgraduate level – helping students to develop the necessary skills to thrive at the next stage of learning. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in French and Russian from the University of Exeter, a Master’s degree from the Institute of Education, a PGCE from Canterbury Christchurch University and an MBA from Plymouth University. She is a member of the Society of Education and Training and has presented at various English UK teaching and academic management conferences.

This is a link worth passing on – the wisdom is quite special. Pass it on!

Judy Vorfeld

The Impact of Dust on Health

July 9, 2020 By Administrator

Breezometer is one of my “go to” websites, and it is always offering understandable information, e.g., “As if more than two million confirmed cases of Coronavirus, high pollen levels, and the dramatic start of fire season weren’t enough, the biggest dust storm for 50 years presents another significant health threat for vulnerable groups in parts of the USA.”

I urge you to go to the page, BreezoMeter Captures Godzilla Dust Cloud’s Impact on USA Air Quality: As it Happened, and check the information, both text and graphics, that will make you feel very savvy!

The thing about this company is that it has amazing info and products, but most of all, its impeccable data accuracy. This is a company you can trust. No guesses for Breezometer.

Creating A Home Improvement Plan Checklist

June 22, 2020 By Administrator

Rosette Monell

 

Source of image: PexelsHome improvements are an essential part of your life. Regardless of the project size, any home improvement will take time, effort, and money to accomplish. It is an important undertaking because it affects two things: the quality of your daily living and the resale value of your house.

Something of this magnitude should be planned because of the factors that must be put into consideration. For instance, the number of improvement projects you can tackle with the time that you have in your hands or the fact that the same project can achieve two goals at the same time are just a few scenarios that you need to keep in mind. It can be quite stressful, without even counting the size of the project in.

So create a plan to properly deal with all you’re going to do. Learn about creating a home improvement plan checklist to evaluate your options to help you make the right decisions.

List down potential projects

Begin with your checklist by determining the potential home improvements you can make in a course of a specific timeline. It could be within months or years. Mark each project as one that you’ll make to improve your quality of life and other ones for increasing your home’s resale value or it could be for both.

Make certain of the scope of work and your timeline

Next up on your checklist is to find out the scope of work that needs to be accomplished for each project. What projects are you going to get started with and estimate the size of the improvements that will be worked on. You can effectively do this by conducting a walkthrough of the subject areas.

After assessing the amount of work that needs to be done on the subject areas, you can start mulling over a rough timeline on each project. Determine which tasks must be completed before others. For example, remodeling the entire kitchen comes first then adding an aluminum profile on your cabinets. You will find that dealing with the larger scope of work first before downsizing is a better strategy than the other way around.

Set a budget

Once you’re done with the assessment of workload and the timeline, it’s time to start building a budget for your projects. This is important so you’ll know that what you want to do fits your budget. Make sure that you don’t forget to include anything that might add to your expenses. Every fee that has to be paid and all materials necessary must be included with your computations.

Return on investment

Focusing more on the financial aspect of doing home improvements, gauge the return on investment for each improvement. To better understand specifics, you can work with a real estate professional to determine the effects of certain improvements you make where you can have good returns.

Summary

To sum up, creating a home improvement plan checklist entails being as involved as possible to conserve resources and evaluating what will produce better results in the long run. Make use of anything that can help in easing the entire process. It may take some time, but nothing tops the feeling of seeing a home improvement go well.

Author’s Bio:
Rosette has a knack for anything DIY. She spent her younger years learning about the different hardware tools and equipment in the hopes of establishing a hardware business in the future. Her career options may have changed, but today, she continues to write so passionately about her first love.

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