Effective Ways You Can Control Stress in Your Everyday Life

Worry or anxiety exist in all of us, but let me share with you effective ways you can control stress in your everyday life.

Yes, stress affects the whole person – body, mind, feelings, and behavior, and just as symptoms can take many forms, so there are many simple actions that you can take to relieve these symptoms.

• Take Action on Stress

Ask yourself: Am I stressed, or am I in denial? Simply making a conscious decision to act upon your situation will bring to you, such a sense of relief that this unpleasant situation is going to change, that you will immediately felt some benefit.

• Chunk Down

Chunking down helps you to define what the problems actually are. It helps you to divide the problems, causing you stress into smaller and therefore more manageable parts. You can then look for solutions, options, and ways forward. This is a good problem solving technique.

• Speak to Someone

A problem shared is a problem halved. It’s good to talk. Talking it over with a friend or someone who will listen, who won’t judge or offer advice, can often help to de-clutter the mind and clarify your perspective and help you take action to relieve stress.

• Write it down

Let it out. Write a letter to yourself or to someone else, without posting it, but find a means of getting your true thoughts and feelings down on paper. It's a type of release. You can then destroy it if you wish, which you can then follow up with a plan to resolve your issues.

• Stop Procrastinating

Procrastination is itself a cause of stress, Eliminate procrastination from your life. Don't put things off until tomorrow. Do them today. Create a DO IT NOW mentality.

• Don’t be afraid to say NO

Change the Dynamic of your situation. If you can learn how to be more assertive, this will enable you to say what you think and act how you want to. Imagine how much less stressed this will make you feel.

• Give yourself choices

Change the stress factors that you can and strengthen your ability to cope with ones that you cannot change. Be creative, find compromises, Reframe problems, and look for solutions that create win-win outcomes.

• Take a step back from the situation

Create some distance between yourself and the stressor. Walk away and find a quiet place, even if that's sitting in your car or a bathroom. Take a couple of deep breaths and imagine yourself far, far away from it. See the stressor for what it really is. See it small and manageable compared to the bigger picture and see how much calmer you feel.

• Manage your Time

Be Organized. Time management allows you to plan and organize your life to give yourself more space and opportunity. It involves planning, delegating, setting an agenda and not wasting any time doing unnecessary things or worrying about things over which you have no control.

• Start the day with confidence

Prepare for the coming day, the night before. Then you're not rushed in the morning and off to a bad start straight away.

• Don’t rely on your memory

It’s the first thing to go when you're stressed. Write down appointments, to-do lists, directions and shopping lists. Create order out of chaos.

• Don’t be late

Give yourself more time to do things so you are not pressured. Get up a little earlier, leave a little earlier for appointments.

• Focus

Do one thing at a time and do it well, focus on the job at hand and forget everything else you have to do.

• Take a moment of pause

Allow yourself some personal time every day, a private moment for peace, quiet and contemplation.

• Have an optimistic view of the world

Expect things to go right, expect people to be nice. You may find that’s exactly what happens!

• Learn to be Tolerant

Remember that most people are doing the best that they can. Find it within yourself to be tolerant and understanding. People make mistakes. Accept the fact that we live in an imperfect world.

• Take Regular Exercise

Exercise combats many of the physical and emotional symptoms of stress and can make you feel better about yourself. Feeling healthy can bring about improvements in self-esteem and self-image and increase confidence. When our confidence and esteem are lifted, our perception of ourselves changes completely and becomes much more positive.

• Make exercise Fun

Don’t ignore the mental and emotional aspect of regular exercise. Give yourself time out to do something fun simply makes you feel good, so if you’re feeling stressed and unsure about whether or not to exercise, simply remind yourself of how you are going to feel afterwards.

• Get Outside and Walk it off

Breathe in some Fresh Air. If you work in an office with air conditioning, get outside and clear your head. Walk about and fill your lungs with air. Try some deep breathing techniques, which re-energizes and invigorates your mind and body. This simple exercise also releases hormones that affect your mood, creating a more relaxed and positive frame of mind and releasing physical stress from the body.

• Treat yourself

Have something to look forward to. Get away from it all, even if itis just for one day. Better still, have regular weekend breaks and never take work with you. Make sure you book a vacation each year to recharge your batteries. It doesn’t matter where, just do it.

• Learn to use your body’s Relaxation Response

Imagine having relief on tap – something you could experience whenever you need it, something that would remove all the stress from your body and return the sparkle to your mind. You can use hypnosis to trigger this wonderful natural effect, which will release hormones and neurotransmitters that flood your body and mind with pure, cleansing relaxation. You owe it to yourself to feel the relief you can have instantly, so learn this technique.

• Make Relaxation part of your daily routine

Relax and unwind using guided relaxation and visualization techniques: meditation, massage, aromatherapy, reiki, shiatsu, tai chi, and reflexology.

• Eat Properly

Food is not just fuel. Make the time in your schedule to eat properly and take time to enjoy your meals when you eat them. Don't just shovel the food in and dash off for the next meeting. Give your digestive system a fighting chance by eating slowly and resting after your meal.

• Eat Healthy

Look after your health by eating a sensible, balanced diet. Eat breakfast to kick-start your day. If you need to, create new good eating habits. Ensure that your lifestyle changes to suit your real needs. Poor nutrition will further weaken your resistance to illness and allow other symptoms of stress to develop.

• Take a hot bath

Have a good soak in the evening to relieve the tension in your body before going to bed.

• Ensure that you get enough sleep

This is essential. You'll wake up feeling refreshed with more energy and able to function better throughout the day.

• Enjoy the moments

Find something that makes you smile or laugh out loud. Laughter is the answer to stress, because it’s hard to be stressed and anxious when you’re having fun!

• Remember to Enjoy

Every day, take time to do something that you enjoy. Learn to live one day at a time and take each day as you find it. Life is quite short and you have to appreciate what’s good in it.

• Ask for Professional Help

Seek out a behavioral psychologist, mental health counsellor, or find a hypnotherapist to help you refocus on relaxation and stress relief.

• Pray

Yes, we all need it as long as we live. Saying a prayer helps us overcome evil in this world and be triumphant in life's trials and testings. If everything and everyone fails, this is the ultimate act of recognition that we are after all humans, and we need the Almighty in heaven to help, protect, and guide us through this very precious thing He gave to us, our LIFE.

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