When your days are filled with stress anxiety and aggravation, your
life may seem like a never-ending battle with no sign of a reliever of
stress.
In response to these daily stresses, your body automatically increases
blood pressure, heart rate, respiration, metabolism, and blood flow.
This stress response is intended to help your body react quickly and
effectively to any suddden high-pressure situation. It's not meant to
be a permanent solution.
A recent survey showed that 70-90% of us feel stressed at work and
outside. With the divorce rate where it is the figures are probably
similar inside. Today's fast paced lifestyle is putting a toll on us
and our search for a reliable reliever of stress.
When you are constantly reacting to small or large stressful
situations, without making physical, mental, and emotional adjustments
to counter their effect you don't seem able to take the necessary
reliever of stress steps. It doesn't have to be that way. There are
reliever of stress steps we can take.
There has never been a time when more people know about stress or there
were more books and classes on how to find a reliever of stress.
Hospitals around the country have classes on stress meditation. There
are more counsellors and therapists than ever before, and daily
newspapers all offer articles about and strategies for relief of stress
and making a better life. It is even possible to purchase supplies of
stress relief tablets and herbal stress tabs from every chain drugstore.
Yet stress is making people sick. They have too much to do and can't
sleep at night. They have high blood pressure worrying about paying
bills. They despair that they can't get a handle on things. Poeple are
crippled by anxiety and their fears. Every day the toll that stress is
taking on people's physical and emotional health is etched even further
into the fabric of their lives.
Still they don't learn. They carry on in the same old way taking the same dismal decisions
Stress can build up and have many bad effects, such as:
You argue with the people you love
You have anger management problems
You have problems sleeping
You have problems eating
You have problems with bodily functions
You have problems with your love life
You feel out of control
You get moody or depressed
You often feel irritable and annoyed
Your self-confidence suffers
You feel weepy
You feel 'lonely in a crowd'
A few tips for the relief of stress would be;
Resolve right now to release every thought from yesterday and be only
think about now. This thought,this breath, this moment. Take in several
very deep breaths and slowly release each one.
Next, think of one thing, such as rocking your baby, taking a quick
stroll, raking the leaves, and do that one simple thing. All the
while, your mind is quiet and calm and you are in your own private
world.
You can take charge of something today. Single out one particular
stressor in your life and then work on it until you regain control. At
the very least, have some new hope!
We are not always able to escape our environment when we feel
stressed. For some, taking a simple walk to clear the head is
something that must be put off. What we all can do, though, is take a
few moments to sit in our chair and use imagery to melt away our
stress.
Used with deep breathing, imagery can be a powerful anti-stress tool.
Picture a pleasant and relaxing scene in your mind, this reduces
stress. Your body quickly responds by relaxing. Reading a book or
looking thru the articles on this directory will relax you and give you
time to regain your equelibrium.
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