While there, they can delight in a selection of stress relieving special dishes and drinks featuring herbal blends from Taggia, a Kimpton restaurant.

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More popular reasons are relieving stress (61%), alleviating boredom (58%), and providing a mental break (58%).

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With the sunrise comes new colour, partly relieving the stress associated with our confinement.

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Simply put, the airlines figured out that through packaging and marketing methods for relieving the stress of flying, they can boost their bottom line.

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It's a small way of relieving the stress of waiting for news about her husband, Manuel Arturo Sanchez, one of six men trapped inside the Crandall Canyon Mine.

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Even for newer treatments without scientific backing, doctors are realising that in some cases (such as for arthritis and relieving the pain and stress of some cancer patients) drugs have only limited effectiveness, and that massage can often do more to make the patient feel better.

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Instead, treatment is supposed to be limited to palliative care, which is aimed at relieving pain, symptoms or stress of terminal illness (including a comprehensive set of medical, social, psychological, emotional and spiritual services).

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Yet a 2001 European survey of 1, 000 workers conducted by the Italian Gestalt Institute also found that office flirting was good for relieving work anxiety, as well as stress.

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