subject: Can You Manage Stress? Try These Stress Relief Tips [print this page] When your capacities, physical, mental, emotional to deal with the circumstances of your life are reduced, leading to a sense of being disempowered, it is time for action, to find out how to manage stress effectively. Do you feel that you have no control over your life but you can regain control by managing your stress better.
Stress leads to depression and mental problems and affects our immune system, energy level, the quality of our life and our relationship with our family members. Stress is internal alarm that our mind rings to tell our body that it is time to stop relying on outside help and focus on self-help like numerous smart and sensible strategies that help you get stress relief
I suggest that you take the time to experiment with the various methods and tips for reducing stress that I mention below, to find out what really suits you and feels right and works for you. Believe it or not, the thing is to enjoy them rather than treat them as "hard work"!
To have fun is one thing but to tell lies and live in imaginary world is another thing.
- To understand the reality of your life is essential and you should consider the following steps in this process.
- a Can you overcome the problem immediately and are practical solutions available?
- c Is it overwhelming you or are you in a position to manage? If so, write down your problems and any possible action you can take to solve them or improve them.
- Is there someone you can trust to talk over your difficulties with.?
Then in terms of self-help stress relief strategies and techniques, here are two things of primary importance (which are interlinked) and that we should deal with first:
- There are numerous other self-help and stress relief strategies but there are two points that form a part of almost each and every solution.
- There is hardly any solution which does not include the points described above and this shows how important a solution it is.
These two are invaluable because they are the basis of most self-help stress relief strategies.
What is more, the energy level is spread all over the body. When we alter our breathing pattern, we automatically create emotional and mental changes and that is a reason why such exercises that involve change in breathing pattern are called psycho-physical exercises.
