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DE-STRESS
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one
Hans Selye
One day a young woman called Penny accompanied her husband Lawrence to the doctor’s office because he had been suffering with headaches and lack of sleep. He seemed especially irritable and generally out of sorts. After Lawrence had completed his check-up, the doctor called Penny into his office alone.
He told her: ‘Your husband is suffering from high levels of stress. If you don’t do the following, he will surely need to be hospitalized.’
‘What can I do to help him?’ asked Penny.
The doctor continued, ‘To help reduce his stress each morning you must get up before him and fix him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant at all times. Prepare him a nutritious ...
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