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		<title>Comment on The Secret Stress No one Likes to Admit:   VERBAL ABUSE by Marsha</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marsha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t believe I have been off life so long.  You were right in being scared.  Your little girl will follow what she sees you do.  She will accept what she sees you accepting.  You have a child who will pay the price if you allow abuse to rule your life.
I can speak from experience, and my little girl has been in terrible situations because of what she saw with me and my life.....I don&#039;t know all your problems, but I do know that if you allow this, as you stated, you will be inviting your daughter
to be verbally abused - and physical will follow.  I speak from years of experience and also years of counseling women.  I hope and pray you have changed your life - to better your daughters...and yourself, of course.  God bless you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t believe I have been off life so long.  You were right in being scared.  Your little girl will follow what she sees you do.  She will accept what she sees you accepting.  You have a child who will pay the price if you allow abuse to rule your life.<br />
I can speak from experience, and my little girl has been in terrible situations because of what she saw with me and my life&#8230;..I don&#8217;t know all your problems, but I do know that if you allow this, as you stated, you will be inviting your daughter<br />
to be verbally abused &#8211; and physical will follow.  I speak from years of experience and also years of counseling women.  I hope and pray you have changed your life &#8211; to better your daughters&#8230;and yourself, of course.  God bless you.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Why do you need a reason to live?  YOU DON&#8217;T! by Marsha</title>
		<link>http://www.stressmanagementmagic.com/2010/09/why-do-you-need-a-reason-to-live/comment-page-1/#comment-969</link>
		<dc:creator>Marsha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pain is the greatest teacher we have.  I know it sounds ridiculous, but it is your choice to rise above it and learn lessons, or let it take you down.  You cannot let someone else decide for you whether you are happy or not, and if you succumb to
doing so, you will never find the peace and happiness you deserve.  When I used to drive and some jerk ticked me off I flipped him off and said &quot;piss on you&quot;...somewhere along the line I found I had switched the finger to the peace sign and I said
&quot;Peace on you&quot;.  Guess what?  I decided to put a halt to MY FEELING UPSET, ANGRY, and YES, even DOWN because of a loss!  It&#039;s okay to mourn a loss, but don&#039;t drown in your sorrow.  LIfe is short, and  if you have pretended your happy before,
you can do it again!  This time don&#039;t do it to appease someone else, or because you think you have to do so - do it because if you do it for YOU, it can become REAL.  Use positive affirmations to change your life, and when you think, (pretending)-
&quot;I am happy today&quot;. DECIDE TO BE HAPPY.  The ONLY choice we have in life is our CHOICE to RESPOND to life- not react to it!  Think: &quot;Today will be a good day, and mean it.&quot;  Don&#039;t let things wear on you - CHANGE the scenery.  CHANGE your
thoughts, GET BUSY doing something positive for someone else....You have a right to happiness.  I tried being miserable and it sucked (and believe me if you want a brief story of my life I will tell you- Being miserable sucked so I gave it up.
I went from pretending to be happy...to creating brain cell impressions that felt happier if I was doing something kind, or smiling for no reason, or calling someone I hadn&#039;t spoken to for a while.  I said I was happy.....I became happy.  I decided
nothing was going to STEAL MY MOMENTS of life any more!!  NOTHING!  I went from happy to great, to wonderful, to awesome....and I mean it.  I can be happy simply looking at autumn leaves, by myself.  I am grateful for small miracles.  Though
this is a long time coming, and I am sorry for that, I do care - I do believe things CAN turn around for you.  This life is all YOUR CHOICE.  CHOOSE how to respond to it.  Take a breath and remember you have a right to be happy, and damnit - you will be happy!
I know you can do it.  You are welcome here anytime and if I can share or help you to see that you can CHOOSE...please let me know.  I am older than I&#039;d like to be, but am known as the human happy face because of my ability to bounce back 
 and I am happy.  I&#039;ll share my happy with you!  It&#039;s a technique and YOU CAN DO IT!  GOD BLESS YOU and I hope you are climbing a mountain, and are finding your happy!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pain is the greatest teacher we have.  I know it sounds ridiculous, but it is your choice to rise above it and learn lessons, or let it take you down.  You cannot let someone else decide for you whether you are happy or not, and if you succumb to<br />
doing so, you will never find the peace and happiness you deserve.  When I used to drive and some jerk ticked me off I flipped him off and said &#8220;piss on you&#8221;&#8230;somewhere along the line I found I had switched the finger to the peace sign and I said<br />
&#8220;Peace on you&#8221;.  Guess what?  I decided to put a halt to MY FEELING UPSET, ANGRY, and YES, even DOWN because of a loss!  It&#8217;s okay to mourn a loss, but don&#8217;t drown in your sorrow.  LIfe is short, and  if you have pretended your happy before,<br />
you can do it again!  This time don&#8217;t do it to appease someone else, or because you think you have to do so &#8211; do it because if you do it for YOU, it can become REAL.  Use positive affirmations to change your life, and when you think, (pretending)-<br />
&#8220;I am happy today&#8221;. DECIDE TO BE HAPPY.  The ONLY choice we have in life is our CHOICE to RESPOND to life- not react to it!  Think: &#8220;Today will be a good day, and mean it.&#8221;  Don&#8217;t let things wear on you &#8211; CHANGE the scenery.  CHANGE your<br />
thoughts, GET BUSY doing something positive for someone else&#8230;.You have a right to happiness.  I tried being miserable and it sucked (and believe me if you want a brief story of my life I will tell you- Being miserable sucked so I gave it up.<br />
I went from pretending to be happy&#8230;to creating brain cell impressions that felt happier if I was doing something kind, or smiling for no reason, or calling someone I hadn&#8217;t spoken to for a while.  I said I was happy&#8230;..I became happy.  I decided<br />
nothing was going to STEAL MY MOMENTS of life any more!!  NOTHING!  I went from happy to great, to wonderful, to awesome&#8230;.and I mean it.  I can be happy simply looking at autumn leaves, by myself.  I am grateful for small miracles.  Though<br />
this is a long time coming, and I am sorry for that, I do care &#8211; I do believe things CAN turn around for you.  This life is all YOUR CHOICE.  CHOOSE how to respond to it.  Take a breath and remember you have a right to be happy, and damnit &#8211; you will be happy!<br />
I know you can do it.  You are welcome here anytime and if I can share or help you to see that you can CHOOSE&#8230;please let me know.  I am older than I&#8217;d like to be, but am known as the human happy face because of my ability to bounce back<br />
 and I am happy.  I&#8217;ll share my happy with you!  It&#8217;s a technique and YOU CAN DO IT!  GOD BLESS YOU and I hope you are climbing a mountain, and are finding your happy!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Contest: Stress Free! by V. Hari Hara Prasad</title>
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		<dc:creator>V. Hari Hara Prasad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello Mrs. Marsha,
I was busy on some other work for this year and a half. How are the things going on? Best wishes to each and every one around you.
and with kind regards to you

prasad

Hope I get a reply soon to vhpmak@gmail.com</description>
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I was busy on some other work for this year and a half. How are the things going on? Best wishes to each and every one around you.<br />
and with kind regards to you</p>
<p>prasad</p>
<p>Hope I get a reply soon to <a href="mailto:vhpmak@gmail.com">vhpmak@gmail.com</a></p>
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		<title>Comment on Why do you need a reason to live?  YOU DON&#8217;T! by Marsha</title>
		<link>http://www.stressmanagementmagic.com/2010/09/why-do-you-need-a-reason-to-live/comment-page-1/#comment-828</link>
		<dc:creator>Marsha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lawrence, I have not been on line for four months, except to check my emails.  I just got the notification that you had made these comments yesterday - March 28th!  I pray to God that you have recovered a bit from this terrible depression you were feeling when you wrote these comments.....we all go through some critical times in our lives - that is just part of being human, and alive, but we all also have the power from within to rise above all these seemingly impossible challenges!  Part of my strength comes from my faith in a God I&#039;ve never seen, and the power of prayer.  if you&#039;ve never dropped to your knees and prayed to the unseen Creator - try it some time.  When I tell you, whether you believe in a power beyond yourself or not, you can turn your life around and find happiness, believe me.  First, stop dwelling on the past and believing your life is doomed for sorrow and misery.  From the time I was 15 my life began to whirl around me accelerating in all directions.  I watched as my mother began an affair, I was a widow at 18, have been in love more than once, married and divorced 4 times, beaten, cheated on by my best friend and husband, fallen down drunk, out of my mind for a time, in a terrible car accident, injured from head to toe, lied to, hair pulled out by the roots,  (and that&#039;s only part of of the story).  I have four grandchildren in Utah, and now my eldest son, whom I love dearly, totally cut off our relationship, thereby cutting deeply into my heart and withholding my closeness to my grandchildren.  At this point in my life I find I have a bulging disc in my neck, and just recovered from a hysterectomy, a broken leg, broken wrist, broken toe, now have to face the fact I probably only have twenty years left in my life - if I am lucky - so I face wrinkles and death.  Sounds like a horrible life, eh?  But I SWEAR to you Lawrence, for the times in between the pain and the sorrow, IT HAS BEEN A WONDERFUL LIFE!  A LIFE WORTH LIVING, through it all.  Beyond my faith, I decided that NO INCIDENT was going to rob me of my happiness and my life.  I tried being miserable and it sucked - so I gave it up!
Don&#039;t be tired of &quot;pretending&quot; you are happy.  Keep pretending - repeat it in your head every day - I feel great, I am happy, I love life!  Divert your unhappy thoughts to something else.  Do something for someone - join an organization - walk - write - TRANSFORM your life.  Take a breath.....remember all is not lost because of a broken love affair or lack of friends.  Be your own friend .  Look around - I think you have an innate strength because you&#039;ve survived thus far.  Pretend and  EVENTUALLY you will create brain cell impressions that are actually happy!  Look for
the good.  Don&#039;t dwell on what is past.  You can begin again this very moment....and if misery jumps in on you again, stop - take a breath - change your scenery...go to a mall and watch people.  Quit concentrating on what you don&#039;t have and begin to think what do you really want....pull positive energy towards you.  Reinvent yourself.  I am not just  talking &quot;fluff&quot;.  I survived the worst scenarios in ten people&#039;s lives and I am a happy person BECAUSE I SAID SO!  Look at it this way - if you
touched the heart and caring of me, someone you don&#039;t even know, there are more human beings out there that are also looking for love, affection, companionship, and relationships.  Don&#039;t give up.
Don&#039;t give in.  Somehow I know you are stronger than that and I know, somehow, you have joy coming your way!  Write again and let me know how you are doing.  Warmly, Marsha  I will pray for you too!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lawrence, I have not been on line for four months, except to check my emails.  I just got the notification that you had made these comments yesterday &#8211; March 28th!  I pray to God that you have recovered a bit from this terrible depression you were feeling when you wrote these comments&#8230;..we all go through some critical times in our lives &#8211; that is just part of being human, and alive, but we all also have the power from within to rise above all these seemingly impossible challenges!  Part of my strength comes from my faith in a God I&#8217;ve never seen, and the power of prayer.  if you&#8217;ve never dropped to your knees and prayed to the unseen Creator &#8211; try it some time.  When I tell you, whether you believe in a power beyond yourself or not, you can turn your life around and find happiness, believe me.  First, stop dwelling on the past and believing your life is doomed for sorrow and misery.  From the time I was 15 my life began to whirl around me accelerating in all directions.  I watched as my mother began an affair, I was a widow at 18, have been in love more than once, married and divorced 4 times, beaten, cheated on by my best friend and husband, fallen down drunk, out of my mind for a time, in a terrible car accident, injured from head to toe, lied to, hair pulled out by the roots,  (and that&#8217;s only part of of the story).  I have four grandchildren in Utah, and now my eldest son, whom I love dearly, totally cut off our relationship, thereby cutting deeply into my heart and withholding my closeness to my grandchildren.  At this point in my life I find I have a bulging disc in my neck, and just recovered from a hysterectomy, a broken leg, broken wrist, broken toe, now have to face the fact I probably only have twenty years left in my life &#8211; if I am lucky &#8211; so I face wrinkles and death.  Sounds like a horrible life, eh?  But I SWEAR to you Lawrence, for the times in between the pain and the sorrow, IT HAS BEEN A WONDERFUL LIFE!  A LIFE WORTH LIVING, through it all.  Beyond my faith, I decided that NO INCIDENT was going to rob me of my happiness and my life.  I tried being miserable and it sucked &#8211; so I gave it up!<br />
Don&#8217;t be tired of &#8220;pretending&#8221; you are happy.  Keep pretending &#8211; repeat it in your head every day &#8211; I feel great, I am happy, I love life!  Divert your unhappy thoughts to something else.  Do something for someone &#8211; join an organization &#8211; walk &#8211; write &#8211; TRANSFORM your life.  Take a breath&#8230;..remember all is not lost because of a broken love affair or lack of friends.  Be your own friend .  Look around &#8211; I think you have an innate strength because you&#8217;ve survived thus far.  Pretend and  EVENTUALLY you will create brain cell impressions that are actually happy!  Look for<br />
the good.  Don&#8217;t dwell on what is past.  You can begin again this very moment&#8230;.and if misery jumps in on you again, stop &#8211; take a breath &#8211; change your scenery&#8230;go to a mall and watch people.  Quit concentrating on what you don&#8217;t have and begin to think what do you really want&#8230;.pull positive energy towards you.  Reinvent yourself.  I am not just  talking &#8220;fluff&#8221;.  I survived the worst scenarios in ten people&#8217;s lives and I am a happy person BECAUSE I SAID SO!  Look at it this way &#8211; if you<br />
touched the heart and caring of me, someone you don&#8217;t even know, there are more human beings out there that are also looking for love, affection, companionship, and relationships.  Don&#8217;t give up.<br />
Don&#8217;t give in.  Somehow I know you are stronger than that and I know, somehow, you have joy coming your way!  Write again and let me know how you are doing.  Warmly, Marsha  I will pray for you too!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Affirmations, Prayers, Meditation &#8211; These are management techniques always available to you! by ho'oponopono australia</title>
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		<dc:creator>ho'oponopono australia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>these are great line . I would try to speak this lines in front of the mirror every morning to boost up my confidance. thanks for the article</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>these are great line . I would try to speak this lines in front of the mirror every morning to boost up my confidance. thanks for the article</p>
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		<title>Comment on How Your Positive Attitude can Defuse Stress by For Stress</title>
		<link>http://www.stressmanagementmagic.com/2010/09/how-your-positive-attitude-can-defuse-stress-2/comment-page-1/#comment-724</link>
		<dc:creator>For Stress</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i agree with you , that most of disease are due to stress. Thanks for sharing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i agree with you , that most of disease are due to stress. Thanks for sharing.</p>
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		<title>Comment on The Secret Stress No one Likes to Admit:   VERBAL ABUSE by Bones</title>
		<link>http://www.stressmanagementmagic.com/2009/11/the-secret-stress-no-one-likes-to-admit-verbal-abuse/comment-page-1/#comment-674</link>
		<dc:creator>Bones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is absolutely scaring me.  It is two days before Christmas and instead of being around a celebratory husband, I was asked to &quot;get my stinky ass&quot; out of my kitchen.  Many times the verbal taunts would just make me retaliate, and I still do, but what hurts me the most is that the STANDARD is being set for how my little girl will &quot;ALLOW&quot; herself to be talked to by her partner.  If verbal abuse is &quot;normal&quot; to her, then she will accept it without question.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is absolutely scaring me.  It is two days before Christmas and instead of being around a celebratory husband, I was asked to &#8220;get my stinky ass&#8221; out of my kitchen.  Many times the verbal taunts would just make me retaliate, and I still do, but what hurts me the most is that the STANDARD is being set for how my little girl will &#8220;ALLOW&#8221; herself to be talked to by her partner.  If verbal abuse is &#8220;normal&#8221; to her, then she will accept it without question.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Why do you need a reason to live?  YOU DON&#8217;T! by lawrence</title>
		<link>http://www.stressmanagementmagic.com/2010/09/why-do-you-need-a-reason-to-live/comment-page-1/#comment-670</link>
		<dc:creator>lawrence</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I feel like i can&#039;t do it anymore. I spend the first 18 years of my life in a constant state of depression. I hated high school and tried to kill myself. The only thing that kept me going was me thinking that when i went to college things would be different. And you know what they were. I found some friends and eventually found a girl i really cared about. We were in a relationship for almost two years and i had convinced myself that i was going to spend the rest of my life with her. A lot of things happened during our relationship that brought extremely close together. To make it short we both got into dark places and helped each other bring ourselves out of it, which brought us closer together. But about a month ago she decided she needed a break and now I&#039;m on hiatus waiting for her. We both have kept seeing each other and other people, but she has now started to develop feelings for someone else. I have been in a state of constant pain for the past month and all it has done is make me think that i will always be in pain and i will never be able to escape. I&#039;m to the point where i know if i pushed through i could do it but i keep coming back to the point of what&#039;s the point of living if your not happy. I&#039;m tired of waking up everyday with a pain in my chest, i&#039;m tired of pretending i&#039;m okay when i&#039;m not. I can&#039;t keep up anymore and i need a reason why. What&#039;s the point of living if your just in pain</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I feel like i can&#8217;t do it anymore. I spend the first 18 years of my life in a constant state of depression. I hated high school and tried to kill myself. The only thing that kept me going was me thinking that when i went to college things would be different. And you know what they were. I found some friends and eventually found a girl i really cared about. We were in a relationship for almost two years and i had convinced myself that i was going to spend the rest of my life with her. A lot of things happened during our relationship that brought extremely close together. To make it short we both got into dark places and helped each other bring ourselves out of it, which brought us closer together. But about a month ago she decided she needed a break and now I&#8217;m on hiatus waiting for her. We both have kept seeing each other and other people, but she has now started to develop feelings for someone else. I have been in a state of constant pain for the past month and all it has done is make me think that i will always be in pain and i will never be able to escape. I&#8217;m to the point where i know if i pushed through i could do it but i keep coming back to the point of what&#8217;s the point of living if your not happy. I&#8217;m tired of waking up everyday with a pain in my chest, i&#8217;m tired of pretending i&#8217;m okay when i&#8217;m not. I can&#8217;t keep up anymore and i need a reason why. What&#8217;s the point of living if your just in pain</p>
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		<title>Comment on &#8220;Practical Stress Magic&#8221; by Marsha</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marsha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are absolutely correct!  Have a wonderful day.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are absolutely correct!  Have a wonderful day.</p>
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		<title>Comment on &#8220;Practical Stress Magic&#8221; by Cody Clark</title>
		<link>http://www.stressmanagementmagic.com/2010/07/practical-stress-magic-2/comment-page-1/#comment-534</link>
		<dc:creator>Cody Clark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Stress has been a part of life with the fast paced life that people live nowadays, we should know how to deal with stress. It will make life easier for us.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stress has been a part of life with the fast paced life that people live nowadays, we should know how to deal with stress. It will make life easier for us.</p>
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