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A recent report lists professionals in counseling and social work as the eighth most sought after U.S. job candidates, enjoying a median annual salary of between $35,000 and $45,000. This unique fusion of grounded scientific knowledge and passionate human interaction is fast becoming the career opportunity of the new decade.

Counseling Career Profile
Counseling is a blanket career title that represents a variety of specialty categories. Counselors traditionally work with patients to identify, manage, and treat the mental, emotional, and psychological challenges they face daily. Just a few of the problems counselors seek to rectify include:
?    addictions and substance abuse
?    family, parenting, and marital problems
?    suicidal tendencies
?    stress management
?    self-esteem issues
?    aging and mental and emotional health

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As the nature of our lives evolves and changes we are constantly looking for ways to improve our creativity and production. This is not a new challenge but one that has taken a sudden sense of urgency, especially in the modern business world. One of the strategies for doing this is to step out of our daily routines, block out the world and focus on our ‘inner selves’. ‘Getting away from it all’ has taken on new meaning and relevance in our stress-filled hurried lives.

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How often do you feel run by your schedule? Do you feel like there is not enough time in the day to achieve what you want to achieve? Or is it a pull between studies, socializing, roommates, and all that life demands of you?

When you are this busy it is hard to even imagine time for yourself, much less planning and prioritizing that time. If you do create time just to be alone, FABULOUS! If you don’t, consider this: when you are not taking time out for yourself, you risk living a life that is disconnected from who you are. Yes, I know you are “there” but I bet it is difficult to remember what you did last Tuesday (without looking at your calendar!). That is because you are not present and there is a difference between being there and being present.

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Yoga is a 6000-year-old form of exercise which not only disciplines the body but conditions the mind as well.

While the various asanas or exercises are the basic building blocks of the practice of yoga, the breath is its very essence of it. Some go so far as to say, “If you can breathe, you can do yoga.” One of the main reasons for this is that one of the main goals of yoga is to teach you to still and quiet your mind through the use of your breath.

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Are feelings of panic and anxiety consuming your world? One of the primary symptoms of anxiety is feeling uncomfortable and thinking you are trapped or stuck. Being stuck starts by dwelling on things you’re worried about instead of taking action. By not taking action, you’re giving yourself no option to do anything else but worry. And excessive worry almost always leads to feelings of anxiety and in extreme cases to panic attacks. Here you will find three simple questions you can use to bring relief before panic attacks occur.

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Living a balanced life has almost become a fashionable thing to do. Between work, fitness, intellectual stimulation, entertainment, planned relaxation and healthy eating it seems that we have identified all the right ingredients for a healthy and balanced life. While doing all “the right things” many of us sometimes wonder why we still don’t feel balanced.

We’re all different individuals, and as such respond to different types of stimuli that may either reduce or increase our stress level. What’s right for one person may not work for another. We all need to find our own individual mix of life balancing factors.

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Take it slow, don’t have many kids and enjoy cold water. All advice for living longer from the Bowhead whale? I was reading an article in the New York Times about the discovery of a bomb lance fragment embedded in the blubber of a Bowhead whale that was harpooned in Alaska this year. A bomb lance is a harpoon that was manufactured for a short time in the 1800s. The whale had carried the harpoon for 115 years.

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