Living in a perpetual state of overwhelm can’t be healthy for you. Adrenalin flows, respiration gets more shallow and blood pressure starts to climb. It doesn’t sound like recipe for thriving, yet for so many of us it’s become a typical daily pattern.
We are bombarded by so many things that grab our attention and focus these days it’s hard to think straight at time – advertising, TV, the internet, email, cell phones, Blackberrys, text messaging, instant messaging, to name but a few. Apparently we receive more mental stimulation and demands for our attention in a single day, than our great-grandparents had ……at the turn of the century in an entire year! (more…)