12 Simple and Easy Ways to Deal with Stress
Stress relief techniques/ Stress relieving ways:
Subrat Das
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What is Stress?
Stress occurs when you feel that you are not able to cope with the demands of certain life events, these events may be positive or negative. These demands can come from your job, financial pressures, relationships, and other situations.
Stress is your response to a change in your
environment. Your body reacts to change such as suffering an unexpected loss,
starting a new job - with physical, mental, and emotional responses.
Types of Stress and Effects of stress:
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), USA,
recognizes two types of stress: acute and chronic.
Acute stress is short-term and is a more common form of
stress. For example, you may feel stressed about an upcoming deadline or a
recent argument with somebody. The stress will be reduced or disappeared once
you resolve the argument or meet the deadline. Damages caused by acute stress
is less compared with long-term chronic stress. Acute stress effects include
headache, an upset stomach, or a moderate amount of distress which are
short-term.
Chronic stress is long-term and more harmful. Untreated
chronic stress can result in serious health conditions and can prevent you from
living a normal life. It can contribute to physical illness including high
blood pressure, heart disease, respiratory problems, and obesity, etc.
Symptoms of Stress:
Effects of stress can include
- Pain in the neck or chest
- Headache
- Sweating
- Anger
- Fatigue
- Restlessness
- Social withdrawal
- Frequent crying
Causes of Stress:
1.Health: Diagnosis of a new disease, aging, complications
from the current illness, and negative symptoms can increase stress. Your
health problem or health problem of someone close to you can increase your
stress level.
2.Relationship: Arguments with a spouse, parent, or
child can increase your stress level.
3.Life Changes: Death of a loved one, loss of a job,
moving to a new house are examples of big changes that can be stressful.
4.Financial Obligations: In this society where so much
emphasis is on what you have and what you can afford, financial stress is
something anyone can relate to. Inability to pay your bills, inability to
provide for a family, or not being able to make ends meet can put a serious
amount of stress on a person.
5.Job: Pressure and conflict from a job situation can
be a major source of stress for many people.
6.Emotional Problems: Needing but not being able to
express your emotions can be very stressful.
Stress relief techniques/ Stress relieving ways:
Everyone is different so are the ways to manage stress.
Some people like soothing stress relief music, creating art, etc. Some others
like mediation, yoga, chanting some mantras, walking, watching nature, etc.
There are many stress management techniques and ways to
deal with stress. Here are some best and easy ways to deal with stress.
1.Set realistic goals: One way to cope with stress is
to set realistic goals. If you set some unrealistic goal which is way beyond
your normal capacity, it can be stressful.
2. Preparing Well: Preparing well for things that you
know maybe stressful such an interview or a speech can be helpful.
3.Stress relief through breathing exercises and
mindfulness: Deep breathing and some other breathing exercises, relaxation
techniques, stress relief meditations, stress relief yoga postures and
exercises for stress relief, finding some time alone at least a few minutes
every day can help reduce stress. Breathing exercises and Yoga should be
practiced under expert guidance.
4. Writing your emotions: Writing your thoughts and
emotions, writing what you are stressed about may be a great way of dealing
with stress. Sometimes writing about a difficult situation or problem that
bothers you can help to find clarity about a situation or solution to a
problem.
5. Laughing: Laughing brings you into the brighter side
of your life. Reading some jokes, watching some comedy episodes can be
relaxing.
6. Taking proper care of your health: Eating a healthy
and balanced diet, getting plenty of rest, maintaining good sleeping patterns
will allow you to feel more relaxed and can help you to manage stress better.
7.Set your priority: It will be helpful to spend some
time on preparing a daily to-do list and focusing on urgent and time-bound
tasks. Living things till the last minute can be stressful.
8.Sharing: You can obtain support from your family,
friends, and work colleagues by sharing your feelings and concerns with them.
Sharing a problem often enables it to become less stressful and sometimes you
may get some unexpected and workable solutions to your problem.
9. Decluttering: Simplifying and removing clutter from
your life can be helpful.
10. Living in the present: Taking one day at a time and
living in the present helps to avoid stress. The vast majority of what we worry
about does not happen.
11.Stress relief games: Play a game or do a crossword.
Activities like these allow you to shift your focus away from whatever is
stressing you. Some online games can help to reduce stress.
12. Stress relief products and Stress management
courses: You can buy and use some stress relief products like Soft gel stress
relief ball, Stress relief cube, can do some Stress management courses, etc.
available online.
About the Author
Subrat Das, B.com (Honours), MBA(Finance), is an experienced
Finance and General Management Professional worked in Managerial positions in
reputed media houses and other industries. Inspired to write on Life, Hope,
Self-help, Education, Mind, Spirituality that may be helpful to people of all
ages to live a better life.
Absolutely true. People those who live in present, don't think about the future and don't remember their past live a stressless life. But this is not possible.
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