This type of belly breathing is when air enters the lungs and the belly expands. According to Wikipedia to breathe with the diaphragm, one must draw air into the lungs in a way which will expand the stomach and not the chest. It is best to perform these breaths as long, slow intakes of air – allowing the body to absorb all of the inhaled oxygen while simultaneously relaxing the breather. Proper breathing can lower stress and anxiety levels as well as balancing the nervous system affecting the entire body.

Other benefits of using this belly breathing story are:

• Helping the body eliminate waste and strengthen the immune system.
• Aids in relaxation, relieves muscular tension, increases flexibility and joint strength, and helps to recover faster from stress and exertion.
• Enhancing emotional stability and mental clarity to feel more energetic and positive.
• Reduces need for stimulants and many harmful prescription drugs.
• Improves blood circulation and relieves congestion.
• Increases supply of oxygen and nutrients to cells throughout the body.
• Eases the strain on the heart by increasing oxygen to the heart.
• Helps increase the supply of blood and nutrients to muscles, blood and bones.

Deep breathing dates back thousands of years when Yoga leaders practiced and taught the benefits of these techniques. These Yogis were observed by scientists lowering their heart rate and blood pressure through breathing techniques. Today many doctors and other health care professionals promote belly breathing and even meditation as a way to help patients with pain management, increase their immune system and connect the mind with the body.

Lori’s titles are selling worldwide and are used by parents, teachers, doctors, therapists, psychologists, yoga instructors, and others working with children. She continues to build upon her goal of bringing stress techniques to kids all over the world with this belly breathing story and the release of other Spanish titles. Her stories are also available as eBooks, apps, eBooks with audio, physical books, CDs and mp3. All of these titles are available at discounted pricing on the Stress Free Kids website and through retailers like  iTunes, Amazon.com,  Amazon.Canada,  Barnes and Noble and Ingram Books.

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Lori Lite is a pioneer in the field of children’s stress management. She has dedicated her life to helping families reduce stress, anxiety, and anger.  Lori created Stress Free Kids and a line of books, CDs, and lesson plans designed to help children, teens, and adults decrease stress, anxiety, and anger. Her work is considered a resource for parents, psychologists, therapists, child life specialists, teachers, doctors, counselors, and yoga instructors.  She has been nationally recognized on Shark Tank, CBS News, and as a Sears parenting expert. Her sought after practical tips and articles can be found in hundreds of publications to include; Family Circle, NY Times, Web MD, Real Simple, Prevention, and Aspiring Women.  Lori’s titles are also available in Spanish, Apps, and eBooks bringing stress management to Smart Boards and making classroom implementation easy. Her constant upbeat presence on Facebook and Twitter make her a real-time resource for anyone seeking practical advice for stress free living. For more information visit Stress Free Kids

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Lori founded Stress Free Kids after her experiences in dealing first hand with stress and anxiety. Her son took 2 hours to get to sleep every night and her whole family was affected. Her stories use techniques such as belly breathing, muscular relaxation, affirmations and visualizations to make it easy for children to follow the characters along and learn the technique by reading the story.

Lori’s stories are used by doctors, therapists, school counselors, teachers, youth instructors, parents and kids. Her books, CDs and lesson plans are benefiting children with special needs, military kids and their families, children going through medical procedures,  children with sleep challenges and children who have elevated levels of stress.

Now Spanish speaking children and families can enjoy the benefits that these stories bring and begin to enjoy relaxation.

Lori’s titles in Spanish are available by eBook only on the Stress Free Kids site and iTunes and are best viewed on computers and tablets that can show books in landscape format like the iPAD.

A special thanks to Lassiter High School, Department Chair Michael Raburn with special thanks to Carolina Dian-Hagan for the translations of these wonderful stories.

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Now teens can explore relaxation music and research-based, stress management techniques with 2 CDs from the Indigo Dreams Series, by Lori Lite.

Indigo Teen Dreams allows teens to manage stress, anger and anxiety while receiving guided instructions on the techniques of breathing, visualizations, muscular relaxation, and affirmations. This straight forward, easy to follow approach encourages teens to manage their feelings and stress while improving self-belief. It is motivating, encouraging and instructional at the same time!

Indigo Dreams: Teen Relaxation Music introduces teen-friendly beats and sounds of nature so that teenagers can achieve a deep state of relaxation and sleep. This full hour of music creates a safe musical place that encourages creative thinking. Stress Free Kids® founder Lori Lite and composer David “Taho” Jacopin team up to create a world where synthesizing beats merge with hang drum, guitar, didgeridoo, and sitar to decrease stress, anxiety, and anger.

Each 60minute CD is designed to empower teens to decrease stress, anxiety, anger, sleep problems, and other challenges while improving self-control and self-esteem. Calming narration, sounds of nature, actual techniques, and music sound tracks make this perfect for teens entering middle school, high school, or college.

All CDs available in physical and download format on the Stress Free Kids Website, iTunes, Amazon.com and hundreds of retailers worldwide.

Stress Free Kids founder Lori Lite has created a line of books and CDs designed to help children, teens, and adults decrease stress, anxiety, and anger. Ms. Lite’s books, CDs, and lesson plans are considered a resource for parents, psychologists, therapists, child life specialists, teachers, and yoga instructors. Lori is a certified children’s meditation facilitator and Sears’ Manage My Life parenting expert. For more information visit Stress Free Kids and for daily advice follow Lori on Twitter and Facebook.

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Lori Lite, founder of Stress Free Kids creates stories in book and CD format designed to help children, teens and adults manage stress, anxiety and anger while building self-esteem and a more peaceful sleep. Her titles are sold worldwide through a variety of distributors, resellers, bookstores and used by several organizations as fund-raising items.

With more consumers getting comfortable with purchasing down-loadable items it was a natural evolution for Stress Free Kids to make their titles available in this format.  ” We have not only made all of our CDs available for digital downloads but we are currently converting  our book titles as eBooks on Apple’s iBook Store and dozens of top eBook retailers world-wide.” say Rick Lite, marketing expert for Stress Free Kids.

Customers looking to purchase all of the CDs from Stress Free Kids can do so directly through their iTunes account or the Stress Free Kids website. The Indigo Dreams series of CDs are also available as downloads from the world’s second largest download retailer, Amazon.com.

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Indigo Dreams: Rainforest Relaxation  allows worry, fear, and anxiety to melt away as each track draws the listener deep into the rainforest with healing melodies and sounds of nature designed to delight your senses while creating a state of restful relaxation. Kids, tweens, teens, and even adults love relaxing with Forest Fantasy, Owl Song, Dream Keeper, and Amazon Whisper. This enchanting hour of music will enhance sleep, decrease stress, and encourage creative thinking.

Indigo Dreams: Teen Relaxation Music  allows teens to escape to a place where dreams are realized, thoughts become clear, and deep relaxation is achieved. Teen-friendly beats and sounds of nature help to achieve a deep state of relaxation and sleep. This full hour of music creates a safe musical place and encourages creative thinking. Drift out to sea, walk a city street, fall in love at a park, and kick back on an undiscovered moon with Breezy Point, SoHo, Park Slope, and Tribeca.

 Indigo Dreams: Kids Relaxation Music  allows children to decrease stress, anxiety, and anger while enjoying dolphins, laughing with fireflies, exploring the rainforest, and walking on the moon. Child-friendly melodies and sounds of nature help children achieve a deep state of relaxation and sleep. Each 15 minute track is playfully sprinkled with whimsy to soothe, delight, and encourage creative thinking. Kids love relaxing with Dolphin Dance, Firefly Flight, Rain Forest, and Red Moon.

All CDs and book titles are available on Amazon.com, Borders Books, Barnes and Noble, thousands of bookstores and her Stress Free Kids website.  Music, stories, and lesson plans are also available as digital downloads on her site and on iTunes.

The music on these CDs can help children, teens and adults:

• Decrease phobias, fears, night terrors, worries
• Deal with changes, transitions (divorce, death, relocating, family member in military, having a sibling with special needs, health challenges)
• Fall asleep peacefully and quickly
• Have a more restful sleep
• Decrease moodiness, irritability
• Increase creativity
• Increase positive attitude
• Mental Health Challenges, Depression, Bi-Polar, Anxiety Disorders
• Special Needs Autism, Asperger, OCD, ADD, ADHD, SPD
• Manage anxiety associated with hospital stays and treatments
• Sleep better when traveling, time changes, hotels, airplanes
• Self-soothe
• Increase ability to focus and concentrate
• Recover from PTSD, Abuse, Neglect, Trauma

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“I have reached my goal of creating  relaxation bedtime music CDs that entertain children and teens while evoking a relaxation response. I am confident that Indigo Dreams: Relaxation Music will catapult to top of the music charts. Working with David was a magical experience. Our merged creativity will benefit children and teens around the world.” -Lori Lite

Child-friendly melodies and sounds of nature help children achieve a deep state of relaxation and sleep. Playfully sprinkled with whimsy to soothe, delight, and encourage creative thinking, kids love relaxing with Dolphin Dance, Firefly Flight, Rain Forest, and Red Moon. Like her other CDs in the Indigo Dreams™ Series children decrease stress, anxiety, and anger while falling asleep peacefully.

Indigo Dreams: Kid’s Relaxation Music

LISTEN TO A SAMPLE CLIP

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If you have an existing business that needs a financial injection or feel you have a lucrative business idea but just can’t seem to secure the financial backing to get it off the ground, then Shark Tank is just the show for you. Casting is looking for aspiring entrepreneurs who can pitch their breakthrough business concepts, products, properties and services to moguls in hopes of landing investment funds. If selected, five real-life, tough investors could be willing to part with their own hard-earned cash and give you the funding you need to jump start your idea. But the investors, also known as Sharks, aren’t just out to invest; they too have a goal – to own a piece of your next big idea.

Your business idea should be top-notch and something the Sharks will really want to sink their teeth into and might even spark a bidding war between them. Who knows – you could be the fortunate entrepreneur who gets the Sharks to reveal the true level of their interest and bid up the price of your investment!

Before you apply, read Lori Lite, founder of Stress Free Kids  How I Got Onto Shark Tank

List of Entrepreneurs that have already been on the Show

Shark Tank Casting

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Lori’s stories help children, teens and adults manage stress, anxiety and anger by using researched-based techniques wrapped around unique stories for kids and guided relaxation for teens and adults. She is also releasing 3 NEW music CDs this month all designed for relaxation and stress management.

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Tori Spelling wrapping Sea Otter Cove by author Lori Lite

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Hosted by Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott/ Books Donated by Lori Lite, founder of Stress Free Kids

Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott, along with other celebrities and industry VIPS, got together Wednesday evening at the W Hotel in Westwood to wrap donated toys and children’s products from Nickelodeon, Stress Free Kids, The Art of Conversation, Propel RC, Capturing Couture, Kidorable and Entertainment Earth all donated to charity.

Lori Lite of Stress Free was motivated to donate books and CDs to this event when Lori realized that 2Family.org was committed to  helping children rise above their challenging livess and believe in themselves. “Affirmation Weaver was a perfect fit for this organization. My believe in yourself story can give the children the tools they need to achieve their dreams. We are happy to be part of this.”

Malcolm David Kelley and Sterling Beaumon met up at the Nine Thirty Restaurant at the W Hotel Westwood for the RappAround charity gift wrapping event hosted by fellow TV stars Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott on Wednesday night, December 16.

Neither actor would mention whether he would be “heading to Hawaii” anytime soon. Asked if they knew each other, Kelley said “We’ve met up a few times (in the past).” Beaumon also mentioned that he had been actively watching Flash Forward and gave a thumbs up to a fan’s suggestion that the LOST finale be shown live in movie theatres for fans to gather together.

The Goodnight Caterpillar along with other books from Lori Lite

Both actors spent over 2 hours wrapping gifts donated by Nickelodeon, Stress Free Kids, and Entertainment Earth for mentoring charity 2Family.org

Tori Spelling telling Lost’s Sterling Beaumon that she had to give up watching his show once (son) Liam was born because it took up too much of her time as they wrapped gifts donated by Nickelodeon at the “Wrap It Up” charity event.

When: Celebrity gift wrappers included: Tori Spelling, Dean McDermott, Malcom David Kelley (“Lost”), Sterling Beaumon (“Lost”), Kevin Farley & JR Martinez (“All My Children”)

About 2Family.org: 2Family.org is a 501( c)( 3) charity leveraging technology to safely connect disadvantaged children with the world’s generosity.

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Lori Lite, Founder of Stress Free Kids is a pioneer in helping children manage stress and self soothe. “It is my passion to help kids manage stress, anxiety and anger while improving self-esteem and a more peaceful sleep.” Lori Lite knows first hand that every member of the family experiences an increase in stress, anger, and frustration when a child with special needs is added to the family dynamics. Lori states, “I am committed to helping families relax.”

About Autism Today:

Autism Today is an organization dedicated to helping those on the autism spectrum realize their goals and dreams while supporting parents and professionals in the process. Karen Simmons feels that, “helping and supporting parents, professionals and their children to manage stress is one of the best sway we can empower individuals on the autism spectrum to achieve their personal best.”

Karen’s ambition is to eliminate obstacles that can be present when dealing with special needs issues by providing the most efficient and effective information access tool available today.  Her vision is to shine light on special needs by empowering individuals on the spectrum to become their personal best. Autism Today’s renowned conference series returns this Spring with the Edmonton Autism Biomedical Conference, join us for three days of education, networking and excitement – www.autismbiomedical.com

About Stress Free Kids:

Stress Free Kids and founder Lori Lite has developed a line of children’s books, CDs, and curriculums designed to help children manage anxiety, stress, and anger while promoting self-esteem and peaceful sleep. We are the first to introduce research-based, stress management techniques in this unique storytelling format. We have been embraced by psychologists, child life care specialists, teachers, counselors, parents, the Autism community, military families, yoga fans, and most importantly children.

To learn more about Stress Free Kids and to obtain information about children’s stress and anxiety visit our Stress Free Kids website and blog.

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