There are times in all of our lives where we face challenges that appear to defy overcoming. Some are real, present threats; others are ones we imagine or distort.

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Here is an effective technique for releasing stress and maintaining perspective. Norman Cousins used it twice to overcome serious illnesses. Dr. Redford Williams, a psychiatrist at Duke University, suggests it as one of twelve effective ways to reduce chronic cynicism.

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There is a magic moment in each of our lives. It is not rare, but it is unique. We each only have one. The richest cannot buy a second. The poorest can't sell or avoid theirs.

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Dr. Archibald Hart is a psychologist who specializes in the stress affects of excess adrenaline. He suggests "a 60 second sabbatical" every hour, taking at least one minute for ourselves.

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"Doesn't it always seem to go, that we don't even know what we've got 'til it's gone." ---songwriter Joni Mitchell

Take a mental inventory of your personal explanatory style, the way you speak to yourself and others.

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