How to fight Stress (Stress Management)

Member Name: qasimite

Product:	Stress Management
Date:	24/12/02 (48 review reads)
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Advantages: Feel relaxed, Help your self, Develope good habits

Disadvantages: Stress kills, Reduced efficiency, Stress reduces quality time in life

Stress is a very common problem that all of us suffer to a little or larger scale depending upon the nature of physical or mental routine of ours. Stress can both be physical or mental owing to the nature of your activities. And in both of its kinds, your habits are the key factor responsible for it. So when we search for the thumb rule to eliminate stress, its is, “change your habits”. But habits are like chains of friendship, too light to be felt and too strong to be broken. As habits will take a while to change, we can work out some course of action that relaxes us from the daily stress. I have been reading about stress and the ways to fight it out, some time back. Though I am not some psychologist, the methods that I will talk about are the outcome of reading the views of some experts of psychology. I have myself tried most of it and found it quite useful. So here we go fighting against stress.
First of all : Recognize it. Yes; sit down and think about it. What kind of stress are you victim of, mental or physical. And that’s easy. In simple terms, if you remain worried or tense, its mental. If you remain fatigued or tired, its physical. This recognition leads you to the conclusion as to whether you have to deal it in physical way or otherwise.
Recognize the source. What causes you stress. What makes you fatigued or worried. For this just you will have to look at your daily routine. As you have already identified at the first step as to what kind of stress are you in, you either have to concentrate on your physical or mental activities. If you have identified the source, you have won more than half the battle. And try it out, you will start feeling relaxed merely be knowing what was causing the trouble. Sources of physical stress can be, long working hours, lack of sleeping hours, rushing between jobs, uncomfortable working atmosphere or similar reasons. Sources of mental stress can be, worries, long hours of mental work (li
ke teaching), too much mental concentration for too much time (have you seen some lawyer preparing a case?), being touchy about some daily routine matters, having bad bosses or bad subordinates or even colleagues and some things like that.
Find the weakness of enemy (the source of stress), where you can strike it hard. Well; in case of physical stress for being over worked, you will be looking for methods like trying to find time for little breaks during working. Trying to make improvements in your work atmosphere. Or trying to reduce your work by delegating responsibilities or by making things handy or changing the priorities of the things that you do or even doing away with non-essential items. For mental stress, if its long mental job hours, try things similar to the physical ones. But if its that you remain worried for petty matters, try these things,
· Relate the issues with the worries. Are the things you are worried about bigger or your worries? Mostly you will find that you worry a lot for very little things.
· “Some day I will look back on all this and laugh”. Don’t you look back a the past and think about the things that you were worried about. But know it all seems fun and those matters look little and you laugh or smile about them. Similar will be the fate of matters of today. Tomorrow they will be little things of past.
· Try to figure out the worst results. I am tense, why, because I failed to show up at the date. Think what worst will happen? She will be mad on me. MAD? She will not talk me for days. So can this be solved? Can she be brought back to a smile? Look… you started thinking of the solutions then only worrying about the problem. That’s the key. Think about the solutions not about the problem it self. Well what has happened, has happened and can be changed now. You can try bringing back a smile to her face. Remember she liked that pizza or that movie or those flowers, last time. Try it aga
in.
· And one of the most effective methods. I will think about it after few minutes. Yes it takes time to adopt this approach. Initially you will find it difficult to get your mind off the problem but with some effort you can develop the habit. And mind you, if you pend the problem for a while and think about it after few minutes or a couple of hours, you will be less tense and will be able to think of positive solutions of it.
Try these things, I am hopeful of positive results. Finally here are certain things that can save you from both mental and physical stress (or at least reduce the effects).
* Have fun. Do things for the sheer fun of it. Each day, plan to something "just for you".
* Laugh. Doctors believe that laughing, even without a reason, reduces tension and stress. If you having some reasons too, nothing like it.
* Learn to relax. Think that you are relaxing, stretch and take deep breaths. * Break tasks into segments.
* Learn to say "no". Say no to the things that you know you will not be able to manage. It’s a proven method, specially against physical stress.
* Take care of your family and friends. Talk to them, write them, send emails and greeting cards.
* Think positive.
* Drink water.
* Eat sensibly.
* Get quality sleep.
* Schedule your time.
* Exercise regularly to reduce stress.
Thanks a lot for your patience. I hope it works for you.

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