By Kevin Sinclair
 The alarm goes off and through the thin slit between your eyelids, a sliver of white daylight gets in, signaling another day has begun.
With your sore, aching body, you buckle up your lead boots, strap on your sack of anger and resentment, and trudge laboriously into your day. You're weak, exhausted, and burdened with pain before the day even starts.
This is what it feels like to carry around anger, resentment, and emotional pain day after day. You have no energy left for things that might bring you joy or happiness. In fact, if asked, you may not even remember the last time you had a truly great day.
All you keep seeing in your mind's eye is replay after replay of the person you're angry at, the person who wronged you.
This may be a difficult thing to hear but the only person being hurt carrying this emotional baggage around is you. According to a study performed at the Harvard School of Public Health, those scoring highest on an anger scale were three times more likely to develop heart disease over |
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By Jon Mercer
 Panic attacks sometimes have an obvious cause. They can be a reaction to a very stressful situation, like driving in rush-hour traffic, or arguing with a family member. But other times, panic attacks can appear to come out of "thin air."
Talk about confusing! You could be minding your own business, going about your life when...WHAM!
When panic strikes, it's all too easy to get caught up in trying to figure out what caused to attack in the first place. But actually, this is probably the least productive thing you can do. Why? Panic attacks themselves are not the real problem, but only a symptom of the real problem.
I've coached enough panic attack sufferers to know that panic and anxiety attacks don't happen "in a vacuum."
Whenever someone is dealing with these problems, my mind immediately turns to, "what else is going on in your life?" Because even though panic attacks may appear to come out of nowhere, they are always a symptom of a larger issue in your life.
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