subject: Your Seven Days Program To Stress Management [print this page] Your Seven Days Program To Stress Management
They say there is many different ways to skin the cat. The same goes when you start tearing your hair out with all the frustration, grief, anxiety, and yes, stress. It's a state of mental conditioning that's like taking that bitter pill down your throat, making you lose your sense of self, and worse your sanity. Just considering it can drive anyone from the edge.
And they say that the proactive ones are already living off the edge.
As you stressed-out person to a different, I understand how it feels, and trust me there are many variants when it comes to stress. Dealing with life, and carrying the problems that may or may not fit in with you are able to scratch away the little joy and happiness that you can carry once you go out that door. You can't blame them to be like this; they have their very own reasons, so much like we have our reasons to allow stress to weigh us down. They are saying that stress is all in the mind, well, what's bugging you anyway?
There are several methods to manage stress, and finally take it off out of your life one of these simple days. So I'll attempt to divide it right into a seven-day course for we promise it's not going to be too taxing on the body, as well as your brain.
1. Acknowledge stress is nice
Make stress your friend! Based on the body's natural "fight or flight" response, that burst of energy will increase your performance in the right moment. I've yet to see a high sportsman totally relaxed before a large competition. Use stress wisely to push yourself that little bit harder when it counts most.
2. Avoid stress sneezers
Stressed people sneeze stress germs indiscriminately and before very long, you are infected too!
Protect yourself by recognizing stress in other people and limiting your connection with them. Or if you have the inclination, play stress doctor and help them learn how to better manage themselves.
3. Learn from the best
When people around are losing their scalp, who keeps calm? What are they doing differently? What is their attitude? What language will they use? Could they be trained and experienced?
Decipher it out from afar or sit them down for any chat. Learn from the best stress managers and copy what they do.
4. Practice socially acceptable heavy breathing
This really is something I've learned from a gym instructor: You are able to trick the body into relaxing by using heavy breathing. Inhale slowly for any count of 7 then breathe out for any count of 11. Repeat the 7-11 breathing until your heart rate decelerates, your sweaty palms dry off and things start to feel more normal.
5. Give stressy thoughts the red light
You'll be able to tangle yourself up inside a stress knot all by yourself. "If this happens, then that may happen and then we are all up the creek!" Most of these things never happen, why waste all that energy worrying needlessly?
Give stress thought-trains the red light and prevent them right where they are. Okay therefore it might fail - how likely is the fact that, and what else could you caused by prevent it?
6. Know your trigger points and hot spots
Presentations, interviews, meetings, giving difficult feedback, tight deadlines. My heart rate is cranking up just writing these down!
Make your personal list of stress trigger points or hot spots. Be specific. Is it only presentations to some certain audience that will get you upset? Does one project cause more stress than another? Did you drink too much coffee?
Being aware what causes you stress is powerful information, as you can take action to make it much easier. Must you learn some new skills? Do you need extra resources? Do you need to change to decaf?
7. Burn the candle on one side
Sleep disorders, poor diet with no exercise wreaks damage to our body and mind. Type of obvious, but worth mentioning as it's ignored as a stress management technique. Pay attention to your mother and do not burn the candle at both ends!
So having stress could be a total drag, but which should not hinder us to obtain the inner satisfaction that we have wanted for a long period. In any case, one could always navigate to the Bahamas and bask underneath the summer sun.
