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� � � � � Common Sense Simplified was designed to help in everyday situations.� A dictionary and paying close attention to the instructions, will prove especially helpful.� No matter the profession or educational background, regardless of political standing, marital status or religious beliefs, this book can assist with finding the answers to life's most difficult questions.
� � � � � The workbook was designed with definitions, questions and hopefully some answers (provided by you) to assist with the management of stress.� These definitions were selected from The Young Readers Thesaurus and Scholastic Children's Dictionary (both are low grade level).
� � � � � These questions may seem silly or unnecessary but, they are very important to answer.� A few of them may be unanswered because, they have not been asked.� Many of the questions will require detailed thought and careful consideration!� Some of them may even require more questions to be asked of yourself, before you will be able to arrive at the answer.
� � � � � Warning:� If you come up with some of the wrong answers, remember that they are your own!� With the proper answers, to life's most complex issues, you could become a very wealthy person, in more ways than one!� This book comes with no guarantee.� You should always believe in yourself and your answers in life.� Because the answers to the questions, in this book, come with experience, it is not recommended for anyone under the age of 18 (without supervision).
� � � � � Disclaimer:� TROUBLESHOOTING will not be held responsible for the effect that your own answers have on you or others that you may be involved with.� This book is not intended to resolve problems.


Stress has more than one meaning:

stress-n.� 1.� worry, strain or pressure.
v.� 2.� To pronounce a word with more loudness or emphasis on a certain syllable.
v.� 3.� If you stress something, you claim it is important.

stress-v.� 1.� emphasize, underline, accentuate
n.� 2.� force, strain, pressure
n.� 3.� emphasis, accent, weight

The following questions will gear your mind and get you stared.� The simplest way to answer them is with honesty.

Ready?

1.� List at least four causes of stress in life.� Why?
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2.� Write four good points about stress.
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3.� Can stress come into a life through a person's own thoughts?� Yes_____ No_____
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How do we find the strength to compel ourselves toward happiness?

emphasize-v.� If you emphasize something, you make it stand out clearly because you think
� it�is important.

force-n.� 1.� power, strength, might, energy, vigor
v.� 2.� army, troop

accent-n.� stress, emphasis

important-adj.� significant, serious, weighty, momentous, pompous, influential

1.� What makes life a force?
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2.� How do we accent stress?
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3.� Do we emphasize life with stress?� How?� Why?
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4.� Are happiness and life the same force?� Yes_____ No_____
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Is it possible to stress life and happiness without damage?

1.� What is the difference between life and happiness?
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2.� Can there be happiness without stress?� How?
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Why?

happiness-n.� delight, enjoyment, joy, pleasure, bliss, blessedness

happy-adj.� joyful, gay, cheerful, blissful, pleased, contented, glad

please-� � � v.� 1.� gratify, delight, satisfy, content
� � � v.� 2.� like, prefer, choose
inter.� 3.� polite, request
� � � n.� 4.� pleased

content-� �v.� 1.� satisfy, appease
adj.� 2.� satisfied, happy, pleased
� �n.� 3.� satisfaction


Discovering the meaning of life:

life-n.� 1.� The quality that separates people, animals, and plants from things such as rocks
� �� � and machines that are not alive.
� 2.� Your life is the time from birth until your death.
� 3.� A living person
� 4.� Living things
� 5.� Energy, or a feeling of being alive

life-n.� existence, being, animation, energy, spirit

alive-adj.� active, live, living, alert

1.� Can happiness be misplaced?� Yes_____ No_____
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2.� Can life be missed?� How?
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3.� Can stress be lost?� Yes_____ No_____

lost-adj.� missing, forfeited, wasted, mislaid

misplace-v.� miss, lose


Can your plans grow?

plan-v.� 1.� To work out ahead of time how you will do something.
n.� 2.� An idea about how you intend to do something, as in plans for the future.
v.� 3.� If you plan to do something you plan to do it.
n.� 4.� a diagram or a drawing that shows how the parts of something are arranged
�� � � or put together.

plan-n.� 1.� sketch, draft, plot, map, chart, drawing
n.� 2.� scheme, proposal, system, design
v.� 3.� devise, contrive, concoct, plot, arrange

1.� Do you think happiness can be planned?� Yes_____ No_____

2.� Does planning ensure that you will be happy?� How?
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ensure-v.� To make certain that something happens.

ensure-v.� assure, secure, determine, make certain

1.� Should we plan to be content?
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2.� Does stress interrupt your plans?� Why?
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Does stress come into a life through a persons thoughts?

project-v.� 1.� throw, cast, shoot
v.� 2.� protrude, bulge, jut
n.� 3.� plan, scheme, proposal, design

1.� Is life a project?� Explain this to yourself...
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2.� How do we project stress through life?
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3.� Do you think we project happiness?� When?
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4.� How is stress projected?
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You're doing just fine!
Start again tomorrow.


Be careful how you use the words; may, can and will!

suffer-v.� 1.� To have pain, discomfort, or sorrow.
� 2.� To experience or undergo something unpleasant
� 3.� To be damaged, or to become worse

If we tell our children, that they may suffer sometime during life; what would it suggest to them?

Could it suggest?;� 1.� You will have pain and sorrow in your life.
� 2.� You can experience or undergo something or someone unpleasant.
� 3.� You may be damaged or become worse.

HINT:� Rearrange the words can, may, and will in the question, as well as the statements; see what you can, may, will learn...

suffer-v.� 1.� undergo, feel, endure, sustain, tolerate, bear
� 2.� permit, allow, admit, let

can-v.� 1.� To be able to.
� 2.� (informal) To be allowed to do something.
n.� 3.� A metal container.
v.� 4.� To put in a jar or a can; to preserve.

may-v.� A helping verb that is used in the following ways:
� 1.� To say that something is possible or likely.
� 2.� To ask or give permission
� 3.� To express hope or wish.

will-n.� 1.� Written instructions stating what should happen to someone's property and money
� � � � when the person dies.
� 2.� The power to control what you will and will not do.
� 3.� Strong purpose; determination.
v.� 4.� Will is a helping verb used to show that something is going to take place or exists
� � � � in�the future or to show determination.


Your thoughts control only you!

think-v.� 1.� reflect, meditate, muse, speculate
� 2.� conclude, suppose, believe, fancy, consider

HINT:� Consider your thoughts and reflect on your notions and ideas about life.� You
� should examine your own thoughts but, not muse on someone else's to entertain
� yourself.

muse-v.� To think deeply or to reflect.

reflect-v.� 1.� To show an image of something on a shiny surface such as a mirror.
� 2.� When rays of light or heat are reflected, they bounce off an object
� 3.� To think carefully.
� 4.� To bring blame or discredit.
� 5.� To show or to express.

THINK


What makes life complicated?

1.� Should life represent suffering?� Does it?
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2.� Does death have to mean suffering?
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3.� Do you think that stress is the cause of suffering?� Why or why not?
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4.� Could you notions, ideas and plans cause someone else to suffer through thought?
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5.� Can your notions, ideas or plans cause suffering in another's past, present and future?
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6.� Is suffering planned?� Yes_____ No_____

How?
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Does suffering require planning?

design-v.� 1.� To draw something that could be built or made.
n.� 2.� to shape or style something.

scheme-n.� 1.� A plan or plot to do something.
v.� 2.� To plan or plot something especially something secret or dishonest.

1.� Should we (verbally) draw a picture of death for our children?� Yes_____ No_____

2.� Is the feeling of loss, due to death, caused by stress?� Yes_____ No_____

3.� Can we design life?� How?
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4.� Can we design happiness?
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5.� Can we design stress?
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6.� Are we apt to plan suffering?� Yes_____ No_____
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7.� Can plans become schemes?� Yes_____ No_____
How?
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Life in the scheme of things.

Express yourself with natural honesty:

express-�� v.� 1.� To show that you feel, or think by saying, doing, or writing something.
�� n.� 2.� A fast train or bus that stops only at a few stations.
adj.� 3.� Very fast.

natural-adj.� 1.� Found in or produced by nature, rather than being artificial or made.
� 2.� Normal or usual.
� 3.� Present from birth.
� 4.� Lifelike or closely following nature.
� 5.� Not faked or forced.
� 6.� A person who is good at something because of a special talent or ability.
� 7.� In music, a natural note is one that is not sharp or flat.
� 8.� In a musical score, a natural sign shows that the next note is natural.

honesty-n.� integriy, uprightness, sincerity, fairness, frankness


You can relieve stress through simple expression!

Stress:� One natural emotion
� One natural consequence
� One natrual motivation
� One natural direction

Natural:� One natural emotion = love
� One natural consequence = stress
� One natural motivation = stressed love release
� One natural direction = living a happy, secure, peaceful life

Unnatural:� One natural emotion = love
� One natural consequence = stress
� One natural motivation = relief of stressed love
�� One natural direction = living life

1.� Express love to release happiness!
2.� Release love to express happiness!


Examine your choices carefully!


Emotions depend on stress!

consequence-n.� The result of an action

motive-v.� To encourage someone to do something.

direction-v.� 1.� The way that someone or something is pointing.
� 2.� guidance or supervision
� 3.� direction; noun, plural (instruction)

�
(Free Love)
release-v.� 1.� To face someone or something.
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(Stress Free)
� 2.� If a CD, film, etc. is released, it is made available to the public for the first
� time.

�
(Relieving Stress)
relief-n.� 1.� A feeling of freedom from pain or worry.
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(Stress Relief)
� 2.� Aide given to people in special need, such as flood relief.
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(Carried or Transferred Stress)
� 3.� Freedom from job or duty, specially when one person takes over for another.
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(Starting Stress)
� 4.� Figures or details that are raised from the surface.
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(Create your own meaning)
� 5.� Relief map- A map that uses shading, or a model that uses relief to show areas
��of high and low.


Are natural consequences created?

1.� Can we direct people by creating consequences?� How?
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2.� Should we direct our children by creating consequences?
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3.� What would an unnatural consequence be?
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4.� What is a natural consequence?
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5.� Can all people be directed by natural consequenses?� Yes_____ No_____
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