Reducing Stress

Life is filled with stress. There is no doubt about that. From the time you wake up until the time you go to bed, unless your life is filled with people waiting on you hand and foot and solving every problem while you live under a rock, then you know how stressful life can be.

A few steps every day can help you relieve stress and even prevent stress from building continuously that lead to relationship failures and unnecessary worrying about inevitable actions. These actions consist of both mental exercises and physical actions that are easy.

When approached by a stressful situation, you must learn to breathe. That’s it - just take a breath. Don’t tell anyone you’re taking a breath. Don’t make it obvious. Doing a very dramatic inhalation and exhalation does nothing to help the situation and can cause additional conflict if your stress is related to someone talking with you.

Okay, so you have your stress. Now, what do you do with it? Throw it away.

Throwing your stress away doesn’t mean you’re abandoning the problem. The problem is still there but if you tell yourself that you’re going to deal with the problem, and that you expect the outcome to be potentially disastrous, then you are accepting what might happen and then you can move forward and try to resolve the problem.

Fear paralyzes and causes stress, and this is why most people are unable to act. In other people, fear mobilizes them because they have learned how to channel their stress into something a little more useful - adrenaline.

Not everyone can take their adrenaline and use it effectively. For some, this can cause panic attacks that will cause you to be of no use to any situation. Recognize if you are in this group of people and then learn to seek help. There are medications out there that will help you in the middle of a panic attack so you can be calm, therefore relieving stress.

Other ways to deal with stress would be counting. Counting backwards from ten helps a lot of people, in addition to breathing. This will get your mind to focus on another task and will prepare you for the more stressful one.

Also, you could exercise. Take a brisk walk as you turn the problem away temporarily and then come back to it later. This will improve your health as most people do not get enough exercise anyway.

Just because your stress is beating down your door it doesn’t mean you have to face it right there. You can postpone your involvement; just make sure you do not postpone it far enough to where the problem becomes much worse. Obviously, if your stress is that your home is on fire, you can’t expect to breathe, count backwards from ten, and take a thirty minute walk. That would almost seem like arson. Instead, you should call emergency services, then breathe, then talk to them as calmly as possible.

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