How to defeat stress.
Any negative feelings like anger, concern, guilt, depression, frustration can bring about stress. It increases your blood pressure level, will make you anxious or nervous, and can lead to muscle tension. Even though some level of stress could be helpful for your work, your health can be much worse when under stress for a long period. It will be helpful to your overall health in the if you learn the techniques of relaxation.
First,you have to recognize that stress. When you sense that you have a high heart rate, the muscles start to tense as well as your breathing turns into shallow and rapid. Your stress levels may be told by these signs.Under stress, people tend to not be able to think effectively, inability to control feelings and lack of ability to communicate as normal.
Breathing methods for decreasing stress.
There are various breathing techniques to result in relaxation. Essentially. you have to change your breathing with your upper chest to breathe with your stomach. You may need a quiet, relaxed environment where you won't be disturbed for 10 to 20 minutes.
Sit down in a comfortable position and raise your ribcage to expand your chest. Place one hand on your chest and the other place on your abdomen. Get to know your upper chest and abdomen movements while you're breathing. Try to pay attention to your breath and inhale-exhale deeply and slowly through the nose. Your stomach and your upper chest should be stable and allow your diaphragm to work more with your abdomen and less work to your chest.
Your stress will be reduced by breathing correctly. When you are breathing in and out slowly and deeply in a nice and quiet environment, you can feel the relaxation all over your body.
Vision help reduce stress.
Visualization- It is actually among the best methods to decrease stress and frequently employed by professional athletes. The visualization exercise is related to the creation of the image you want to happen in your mind. Sports athletes may visualize the victory. The visualization technique can be viewed as one of the relaxation technique, due to it can make you calm and relax when you have to do some things that you are not familiar with or have high anticipation like the contest or speaking in front of large audiences..
Visualization techniques need to be trained for at least 20 minutes in a good and quiet environment. Take a few minutes to chill and sit comfortably by taking several calming deep breaths. Then close your eye and make an image of a positive thing in your mind. Imagine yourself in a stressful situation and see yourself coping it with confidence. You have to enter the details inside your imagination as much as possible. Negative images should not be shown in your imagination. If that does occur, then just open your eyes, breathe deeply, and begin again. The finished image is always optimistic.
Visualization techniques become easier with practice. Before going to bed and in the morning is the best time to practice this technique successfully. Your brain is most receptive when it is in a semi-state of sleep, much more so than when your conscious mind is awake and is fully engaged.
You will be well armed to face down and conquer the stressors in your lifetime when you put visualization and deep breathing techniques together. These two stress relaxation techniques will put you back in control when practiced regularly.
Stress is just a part of life and can be found no matter where in the world you go. Is stress merely part of the inescapable human condition? Are we as a species chronically worried and unhappy or does bad luck simply find us wherever we are? It’s not practical to believe that we are battling against Fate, Chance or even God. Stress does not happen just to make our day unbearable. You could say that stress is a natural reaction to an action taken, the consequence of a causative event. For every action there is a reaction and often times the stress that we have to endure in life is the stress that we bring upon ourselves by the choices we make.
For example, a person may be stressed out because he or she lives in a dysfunctional relationship. Yet, this is the relationship that they chose to become involved in and stay in. Similarly, in a professional setting, a store manager may be under constant stress because of office politics and sales pressure. Nevertheless, they took the job knowing that it would be a high stress position. Similarly, many diseases and painful health conditions have been brought on by some of man’s unhealthy practices, a direct consequence of an action taken. It is inevitable that you will probably have some stress in your life. What is important is that you learn how to identify potential sources of stress, that you minimize unnecessary stress, and that you learn how to handle stress that you say you can’t get rid of.
Catch Stress before It Happens
Life experience is a cruel teacher, but perhaps the best teacher that we will ever have. Experience teaches us that some mistakes we make can lead to very frustrating, even painful, consequences. Fortunately for us, much of humankind’s life experience has been documented in books. The more you learn from the wisdom of others, the more cautiously you will approach life, and in the end, the less stressful conditions you will be exposed to. It has been said that hindsight is always 20/20. As you look back on some of the poor choices you have made, you may observe now that you were actually given fair warning as to the amount of responsibility that lay ahead of you.
Understanding this will cause you to become more careful as you make decisions in the present and the future. You may find that some potential sources of stress are fairly obvious and may best be avoided at this particular time in your life. For example, there may be a new position for manager opening up in the office. However, you remember meeting the manager, and may have noticed that he was always stressed when he was working. If you are prone to heavy anxiety or have a medical condition that may be worsened by taking this job, then it would be prudent to pursue something else. Another example would be in pursuing a romantic interest in a friend. You may already notice some not so favorable qualities in that person. Would your stress level be worsened if you became romantically involved with this person? Similar questions may arise in considering issues of family and entrepreneurship. Would you be able to handle the responsibility of a new family or the pressure of opening your own business? This is called exercising foresight, also defined as "planning prudently for the future." Reduce your future stress level by minimizing the potential sources of stress in your life.
Dealing with Stress Today
What can you do about the stress you are currently experiencing? There are many remedies out there ranging from the extreme (drug use, hypnosis) to the relatively simple. Exercise is one healthy way to handle stress since rigorous physical activity releases endorphins. Endorphins serve as mood enhancers while also help in the alleviation of pain. Exercise is also a very goal-oriented activity, one that you can see and feel the benefits of right away. It may also help to learn some stress management techniques. Calming yourself in times of stress is important. Slowly breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. This helps you to control your breathing rate. Meditation has proven helpful as another form of tension control.
If you have more chronic problems with professional or personal stress, or have frequent panic attacks, then you may suffer from an anxiety disorder. These stress problems should be professionally examined and treated. This does not necessarily mean that medication will be required. Alternative forms of treatment, in holistic therapy or a change of diet, have proven very helpful for some.
If you are interested in reducing the stress in your life, review the options above and set a goal to implement one or more of them. If you have ever wanted to be something more than what you are, but have felt hindered by circumstances, then now may be the time to act. Only by taking decisive action will you ever change into the person you want to be.
How to Live Stress-Free and Happy
Your stress relief is right here, right now. Literally, in the here and now, the current moment, there is absolutely no stress. Just stress-free happiness.
So read this article over and over, pausing only to eat or sleep and you will be stress-free and happy. I’m just kidding. But reading is one way to live in the current moment. So are all your favorite activities. That is why you enjoy them so much. They keep you focused in the current moment and your stress is temporarily suspended.
You may not like to hear this, but you are responsible for all your stress. Circumstances don’t cause stress. Jobs don’t cause stress. Other people don’t cause stress. No situations cause stress. What causes your stress? Your reaction to circumstances, your job, other people, situations, etc.
Within your reaction lies the reason for stress. The reason is, you have incorporated the past and/or the future, into the current moment. You might be trying to live up to expectations by yourself or others (from the past). You might be fearful of what yourself or other’s reaction will be if you don’t attain certain expectations (in the future).
Take a minute to think about what’s causing the most amount of stress in your life lately. Now pretend you lost your memory. Did your stress level drop dramatically? If not, you may be thinking about a future outcome. Eliminate both, the past and future, and you will be stress-free and happy.
You don’t have to make any effort to live in the current moment. You do have to make an effort to stop living in the past and future. Your natural state of existence is stress-free and happy, in the here and now. It’s there all the time. You may not have been aware of this or you may not even believe it could be as easy as this.
Worrying causes stress. Is worrying in the present moment? No, it’s when you are thinking about the future. Remembering bad situations in your past causes stress. Hatred toward people or events causes stress, and that is only when thinking about the past or future.
You can do everything the experts suggest to ease stress. Burning it off with exercise, punching a pillow, keeping busy to keep your mind off of it, doing something relaxing like meditation, taking a vacation, and you know all the other suggestions, because you’ve tried them.
Regardless, you always return to stress, right? Along with the stress, is unhappiness. Happiness and stress are complete opposites. And just as if they were on a see-saw, they always maintain their position, completely opposite of each other. When one goes up, the other goes down.
The more stress you have, the more unhappy you are. And when you are extremely happy, you will not have stress. The true you, in a state of stress-free happiness, is to be found in the current moment, the here and now. It is your see-saw raised all the way up. Stress, on the opposite end, is all the way down.
Now that you know how to be stress-free and happy, you may find it challenging to stay focused on the current moment. You may need to train your mind which has been drifting almost, your entire life. Do you remember how stress-free and happy you were when you were little? You were constantly focused on what you were doing at the time, in that moment.
Pay closer attention to your attention. Every time you catch yourself thinking about the past or predicting or fearing the future, acknowledge it by saying, "Thinking about the past," or "Thinking about the future" and bring your focus back to the current moment. After a while, you’ll be catching yourself drifting and quickly make the change.
The trick is, you have to let go of all your thoughts. You can’t control spontaneous thoughts about the past or future, but you can control your reaction to them.
Let go of all thoughts, stay in the here and now, and you will live stress-free and happy. It’s a beautiful thing.
Let's Stress GO ! Be happy & enjoy !!
