Holiday Stress
holiday stress
What do you do to relieve stress in your own life?
Work, family, holidays- the stress can build up. What do you do to relieve stress in your own life?
Hi Miss M,
Relieving stress is not an as easy task as it seems. The reason is simple: it is intrinsic to the life we live because stress is caused by change and the only constant in this world is change.
So we are doomed to experience stress in our day to day life.
The key to manage it is to build effective stress management techniques in our life as a counter reaction to the stressors.
There are many sources in the net, which address only the effects of stress: headaches, backache, anger .... and recommend therapies easing them for a short period of time (massage, breathing exercise ...). But this is not the point because this is a reactive behavior: we have the bad effect stress has caused and then only we try to ease the pain.
The point is to act proactively: to deal with stress in the long run by addressing the true causes of it and avoiding the negative effects it creates.
Let's start from the point that stress is not really that bad. Certain doses of stress are even beneficial sometimes - during exams or at work for instance. We need it to mobilize and deliver the best we are able to.
So the question is not really how to get rid of stress completely but how to have the optimal stress levels in our lives. It is about effective stress management.
Effective stress management or the Science of Dealing with Change has one basic goal: to find out how to set up the basic activities we do in our day to day life in a way which guarantees minimal negative effects experienced as a result of stress.
Five simple steps guarantee us a good start towards a healthy life:
1 Mind your words
2 Keep smiling
3 Recognize your victories
4 Pay attention to what you eat
5 Move
If you stick to them there is a good chance that the events in your life will be only contributing to your ultimate success in the battle against stress.
Find out why here: http://www.stress-management-for-health.com
This is a web site which helped me a lot in finding solutions for many tough questions regarding stress.
Hope it will help
Regards,
Oil
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How To Reduce Stress Levels
how to reduce stress levels
How do I lower my stress tolerance?
I've been under a TON of stress for a really long time, and I've handled it well, but recently my stress level started creeping up again, I barely noticed that I was feeing stressed out, but then I got really sick. The doc has ordered weeks of bedrest.
He told I should use some of that time to think about ways to reduce my stress level. How do I do that when I am so used to being under stress that I am not aware of how bad it is?
Thanks...
Have enough sunlight, eat yogurt and green leafy veggies, avoid fatty and carbo-rich foods, sleep early at night, jog/ work-out, take a walk, take vitamin -C and B-complex.
Above is proven Effective.
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Stress Relief Techniques
stress relief techniques
explain stress relief techniques that you have used or feel will work to reduce your stress levels?
When I'm stressed and what helps me, is to leave the situation I'm in, and go be by myself for awhile.
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Coping With Stress
coping with stress
What are some suggestions for coping with stress over exam periods?
I had my first exam today but Ive already been getting constant headaches and have had loss of sleep. I'm quite worried about loosing sleep because I have to be up early for some exams coming up and i havent been able to fall asleep until about 3 in the morning (getting worse) when getting into bed at about 11. The headaches are making me dizzy and i guess are borderline migranes. I need to study but cant concentrate when studying making me even more stressed.
Try to get enough sleep each night. Stop revising at around 8:30pm and take a shower, go to bed relatively early and sleep well.
Don't do any revising on Friday nights and leave the best part of either saturday or sunday to do something you enjoy (with friends etc.), but do a little bit of revision on that day.
Do your revision in chunks as well, 20 minutes at a time then take a break, get a drink and rest.
As for the migraine headaches, drink lots and if you get them, stop reading whatever you are reading or doing whatever you are doing and take a rest, sleep for half an hour or so if you have to.
One final thing, make sure that you eat, drink and exercise properly during your exams. This will keep you healthy and can only be beneficial for your stress levels.
Good Luck.
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Stress Relief Gifts
stress relief gifts
Would this be a good gift or would she be offended?
My mother in law has chronic pain which causes her constant problems. She may even be quitting work because of it. I love yoga and have a lot of faith in its ability to improve pain and stress levels associated with pain, and I honestly believe that if she practiced yoga daily and improved her lifestyle, she would find relief from her pain. Would it be offensive to her if I gave her a yoga for back pain book or DVD? Any recommendations on how to do this? would it be an ok Christmas gift or inappropriate since she would be opening it in front of a lot of people?
To the first answerer - you are very right. Classes would be better. She lives in a really small town, but I will look into that.
To the first answerer - you are very right. Classes would be better. She lives in a really small town, but I will look into that.
T - lol "let the cat piss on it" you are hilarious. No, she's not that bad by any means!
Ditto on Kiwi's answer. Better keep it private. If she catches on, and likes it get her some yoga gear for Christmas and you can give that in front of people.
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