In order to be more effective in your life, you need to be able to effectively handle stress. Stress interferes with success in many ways and is one of the most prevalent conditions of modern life. We face stress in the work place, on the highways, and at home. It impacts all areas of life and your business success. Stress is a very subjective experience. What completely stresses one individual can be a motivator for another. We have a tremendous capacity to impact stress by how we deal with it. We can either change our experience, or we can change our experience of that experience.
- Become proactive…learn to take charge of your life. Make your decisions and choices bases on goals and values rather than moods and circumstances.
- Use your breath…conscious deep breathing can help you un-wind and bring down your stress levels.
- Cultivate the ability to relax…learn to take three minute vacations several times a day. Learn to deeply relax at least once a day.
- Talk to yourself. Positive self talk and affirmations help you to feel less stress and to take charge of your emotional reactions.
- Develop a personal stress management program and stick to it.
Your ability to effectively manage your personal stress is a key factor in being more successful in your life and your business.
When you manage your lifestyle you can manage stress which a is a key cause of anxiety and depression.*
Life Style Basics: Eating healthy, drinking water, sleeping well.
Relaxation: There is a wide range of relaxation techniques available for coping with stress. Most of these methods can be learned in therapy, but the most important point to keep in mind is that you should find a technique that works for you. The list of choices includes breathing exercises, yoga, stretching exercises, biofeedback, meditation, massage, visual imagery, and progressive muscle relaxation (which is an especially effective tool).
Exercise: Regular physical exercise helps reduce stress, and it also raises self-esteem. It primes your immune system and plays a crucial role in preventing disease. Physical exercise need not be strenuous. Walking at a brisk pace for 20 or 30 minutes daily decreases stress just as effectively as vigorous jogging.
Self-Rejuvenation: Find things you enjoy that make your spirit soar. This could include listening to music, meditation, prayer, sports, dance, painting, visiting nature, hiking, or writing. Take time for recreational and spiritual pursuits on a regular basis. This will help you to maintain balance and perspective in your life —and it gives you better control over being stressed out.
Setting Limits: Much stress, especially these days, comes from biting off more than we can chew. We often embrace faulty expectations about how much we should accomplish in life. Unfortunately, this is a prime culprit in increasing our stress levels. It may help to examine what is really important in our lives, scale back, think smaller, and give our time more completely to the things that matter the most. Bringing expectations into line with reality and learning to say no when we choose to offers immediate relief.
Effective Communication: If you are too passive with others, you may come to feel that everyone is taking advantage of you or controlling you. On the other hand, if you are too aggressive in your dealings with other people, you may antagonize them and create more stress for yourself. Assertiveness training is one way of expressing your needs without feeling ignored or offending others. A number of effective communication techniques can be explored through coaching.
Social Support: Find people who can nurture and support you, and learn to trust appropriately in them. Our stress levels increase when we try to deal with life’s difficulties alone. Talking things through with a good listener can help us to put things into a more realistic perspective — and the mere act of talking about issues that we usually hold inside serves to reduce our stress levels. When stress decreases the quality of life, remember that professional help is available. Coaching or psychotherapy can help us to take charge of our lives in an effective way — and this is a much better alternative than living under the control of stress
Review this information and live it! this does not replace psychotherapy of medical treatment but are tips to help you
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Based on information at www.emotional wellness.com
