Use your brain to cut stress

Relieve stress by understanding which brain hemisphere is stressed.

• If you feel depressed or emotionally overwrought, your stress is in the right hemisphere-the creative, emotional, holistic side.
  

• What to do: Switch to your matter-of-fact left hemisphere by doing math, writing factual prose or organizing. The emotional right brain will calm down.
  

• If you feel time-stressed and overburdened, the left hemisphere is involved. Switch to your right brain by singing or playing a sport.
  

Source: Jane Cole-Hamilton, registered nutritional consultant, Wellspring Seminars, 355 Park Ave., Newmarket, ON L3Y 1V4

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