I give it all to God.

Stressing about anything is a waste of time.

I think the way I handle is "sleep".

OR sometimes a good cry.

I was very stressed yesterday over a young boy, with limitations, who has gone thru so much in his short life.
Surgery after surgery after surgery, and another one, an emergency surgery that has him in a body cast, yesterday evening. The second time this year he's been put in a body cast and he's just eleven years old.

His sister as well has limitations and she is fifteen.

Glenda I love a good cry also~~~Yoga/meditation helps me alot~~I also like to listen to my yoga music and that alway soothes my spirit.

well not by reading the comics... omg I guess i'm just too old for the ones they have now..i don't understand half of them, lol....

with the exception of my one dd2 (divorce), the kids and grands are my life....but like today, while I watched some of the news, I also took time for a long hot shower...went back to bed with the heating pad and read....actually the shower is my first choice...

Walking helps. Talking with friends and family. Gardening, reading.

A hot bath, candles, a glass of wine and a good book. All worries are gone ... for a while. :-)

Jodi-

I too like a really good cry, particularly in a shower.

Otherwise, a very long, fast walk or heavy-duty gardening.

Fortunately, I don't get stressed often.

DH and I were talking about it tonight. He works with people at the Navy Yard, so the shooting hit close to home. But that being said, it gets to an oversaturation point. You have to turn off the TV, radio, paper or websites and get out and enjoy life. It's easy to get bogged down and wonder why the world seems to be going to hell, why some people seem to have so many troubles: sick children, job loss, cancer etc.

I do feel overwhelmed at times and a good cry can help you feel better, but how do you keep positive? It's not much of a life to be upset about everything. Find some things you enjoy: hobbies, take a walk and exercise, visit a friend. Maybe volunteering in your corner of the world will help you realize the things we can be grateful for?

I turn off CNN and MSNBC. sometimes I just have to check out for a while.

I run 3x a week through the forest trails with some friends and that really helps. We tend to talk about nonsense rather than world events.

But I agree with you - I'm not sure how beneficial this world of instant news is that we live in now.

The last time I went on vacation I went to a country where there wasn't a television. I was gone 2 weeks and was completely cut off from the bad news of the world. Before my vacation, I'd been feeling overwhelmed by the atrocities of the world, so when I wasn't able to tune in to the news, I realized how much better I felt. When I came home from my vacation, I now limit how much of the news I pay attention to. I watch enough of the news to know what's going on in the world, but I don't dwell on the details. That helps me stay grounded and positive.

I only get my news on the computer through AOL. I can open the headline if I choose.
I have gotten out of the TV habit. I watch very, very few shows. Sometimes i will stop and watch CNN with my DH.
But I agree with you Yoga. And it's also all the natural disasters that seem to be happening on a daily basis.
I think we just have to allow ourselves a time out evry now and then.

and the answer is YES!

I had gotten into the habit of going to bed and watching the news before I "tried" to get to sleep.....so have decided to watch the news at 9, instead of bedtime and when I go to bed, I listen to a relaxing tape....sure helps better than all of the disasters of this world. This might seem odd, but I have quit praying before I try to go to sleep. I know this might sound strange, but when I prayed for my kids and the world, it only brought up thoughts that would cause my heart to race and no sleep would come.

In the evening, I try to watch "mindless" TV shows and not all of that blood and guts, that is getting to be so true to life.

The more tragedies I read about, the more I am grateful for this very moment when all is well in my life. It is a helpless feeling to not be able to do something to prevent tragedies.

A house was burglarized n my street a couple weeks ago, the first time this has happened on our street, although it does happen around us frequently. Our houses are smaller and close together, plus it is not a thru street. We all know each other and have felt like we were living in a safe bubble. It is very stressful to constantly be on guard, locking everything up. I used to run to the store and leave the door unlocked. No more.

However, you just can't go through life stressing about things you cannot control. The news is awful any more and I don't listen. I do keep up on current events on the news web sites.

I only feel stressed once in a while~~~I put my yoga music on loud during the day and chant away;) At night I have a couple of songs I listen to go to sleep or do a Yoga Nidra which is a deep meditation~~

My late Mom once told me, if she'd feeling tense, she would turn off the TV and go somewhere quiet and pray.