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ONLINE WELLNESS MEMBER Keesha Mayes-Washington is the delightful host of ESOTERIC CHICK RADIO: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/echickradio. Keesha is a dynamic talented woman who inspires people to achieve more.

Keesha’s bio on site says “Just like most of us, Keesha is a certified graduate of the School of Hard Knocks. Growing up in foster care and group homes most of her childhood. She also struggled most of her adult life with homelessness, abusive relationships and staying healthy despite her diagnosis of Systemic Lupus. ‘Whether we acknowledge it or not, we all have choices, and I choose happiness, every time!’ says Keesha.

Keesha has always been known as being spiritually insightful. Even as a child, her ability to follow her inner guidance and instinctively understand spiritual truths has astounded those who know her. The core of all of her work has been using her talents and skills as a conduit for Divine spirit to communities and individuals giving them the opportunity to tap into their ‘God Spark.’”

Learn more about Keesha by visiting her INNER WISDOMS WAY website at
http://www.innerwisdomsway.com. AND, be sure to catch her blog radio show, Esoteric Chick Radio, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/echickradio

ONLINE WELLNESS ASSOCIATION is proud to promote this exceptional member. ONLINE WELLNESS ASSOCIATION strives to promote our members whenever we can. Have you applied for membership? If not, apply now @ http://www.onlinewellnessassociation.com/index.php?v=requirementssub.

It is official: ONLINE WELLNESS ASSOCIATION IS NOW AN INTERNATIONAL membership site. Check out DAWN LABARRE in the professional directory at: http://www.onlinewellnessassociation.com. Dawn is an extraordinary woman. With any luck OWA will be posting her articles very soon. OR, maybe she will become a regular blogger on the site.

ONLINE WELLNESS ASSOCIATION welcomes wellness practitioner/counselor DAWN LABARRE.

Part of what keeps us alive is our ability to feel fear. Everyone experiences anxiety or feels panicky from time to time: the shaky knees, the pounding heart, shortness of breath, your mind going a million miles an hour! In fact, we are made with a kind of built-in alarm system that brings all of our mental attention and physical resources to focus on the face of danger — what’s known as the fight or flight response.

About Anxiety and Panic

Over 30 years of scientific research into severe anxiety disorders and panic attacks has established that all anxiety has a real, physiological cause. However, anxiety is really an interaction of both emotions and physiology. Most early psychologists viewed anxiety as purely emotional: the outward sign of repressed negative feelings and inner conflict. We now know this is not correct.
This means that there is a lot you can do to reduce or eliminate anxiety! Anxiety symptoms that were once dismissed as character flaws (think of the terms “worry wart”, “head case” and “control freak”) are not feelings you just have to live with or medicate when they get too severe for you to function. Your thoughts affect your feelings! By changing your thinking, you can change how you feel!

The Physiology of Anxiety and Panic

The limbic system, which is the part of the brain responsible for orchestrating our emotions, including the fight or flight response, relies on a complicated interaction between neural transmitters and hormones that regulate the body and mind to prepare you to deal with any perceived enemy or danger.

So it’s natural to occasionally feel anxiety or threatened, sometimes even useful. If you are standing in the middle of the road and saw a bus coming, you’d want that fight or flight response to kick in immediately, wouldn’t you?

What’s not natural is to feel afraid, worried or upset without any concrete cause. Like our immune response, our fight or flight response is meant to click into action in the face of danger. And then once the danger is past the fight or flight response fades away, gets turned off. However, today in the modern time, too many of us never get to relax: our minds are always on high alert, with the physical response that goes along with being on high alert.
It may seem like there’s an outbreak of anxiety. Statistics show that millions of American adults and children self-report on a variety of anxiety disorders. And remember these are only people that report. How many others are not reporting them? Are you one of them? You may feel reluctant or ashamed to admit that you’re suffering from panic or anxiety.

Natural Ways to Relief From Anxiety and Panic

Do you want to know some ways that you can begin to fight anxiety? Please visit my site panicsolutions.info. The Panic Solutions site focuses on natural ways to cure anxiety and panic. There is lots of information and techniques. We also review several well-known panic relief products, such as the Panic Away program, The Panic Puzzle, Easy Calm, The Linden Method, and others. You can sign up for my free series of articles on anxiety and panic there as well.

Dan DeLuca is the President of World Tree, Incorporated. He is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Trainer and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Author, and Speaker in the fields of Personal Growth, Motivation and Communication, and is a member of the Association for Integrative Psychology, The National Guild of Hypnotists, The American Board of Hypnotherapy and The Online Wellness Association.

His website is www.worldtreetraining.com and www.panicsolutions.info
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ONLINE WELLNESS ASSOCIATION is still investing marketing money in YOU! Know a wellness practitioner? Refer them to Online Wellness Association, get permission to pass their information to OWA, we will contact them to let them know the benefits of belonging to OWA–when they are approved YOU RECEIVE $100!!! There is no limit to the number of people that YOU can refer. Just invite a wellness practitioner that YOU know to look at the site, send info to OWA, upon approval YOU get $100!!

Send YOUR contact information along with your first referrals to:
maxfabry@onlinewellnessassociation.com

Wikepedia defines communication as “a process of transferring information from one source to another…imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs.” Language defines the human species; we learn to start communicating within the first few years of taking the first breath of life. Yet, many problems, whether interpersonal, professional, or social, result in problems as a direct result of people failing to communicate.

ENTER, PAMELA COURNOYER, CEO of Communicate with Class, and ONLINE WELLNESS ASSOCIATION’S new SPOTLIGHT THERAPIST. Pamela has a background as a Professional Trainer, Coach and Facilitator. She has experience coaching groups in challenging locations such as Kosovo; but, can also be found sitting around someone’s table teaching people the fine art of communication.

ONLINE WELLNESS ASSOCIATION recognizes the importance of healthy communication to help people heal from whatever their circumstance. We are proud to have PAMELA COURNOYER as our first official communication coach. IMAGINE: Workers effectively communicating at all levels. IMAGINE: Husbands and wives clearly understanding each other. JUST IMAGINE: Having on-going dialogue with your children and other family members.

CONGRATULATIONS to PAMELA COURNOYER for being this month’s SPOTLIGHT THERAPIST.

Get to know PAMELA COURNOYER, and learn how her services can help you, your employees, your family, your friends, better communicators at
http://www.communicationwithclass.com

Have you applied for your ONLINE WELLNESS ASSOCIATION membership? If not, go to: http://www.onlinewellnessassociation.com, click on “become a member”, “apply”.