Stress can manifest in a number of ways, including when you carry over yesterday’s concerns into today and add them to the concerns that you’re having right now. This build-up of stress over a period of days (or, sometimes, longer) will almost always end up with you experiencing a high stress level. Therefore, it’s important that you’re able to release all of your concerns from the previous day, or days, and concentrate wholly on what’s happening today.
With that in mind, here are 3 quick and simple stress busting tips that you can use every day, or whenever you start feeling stress building up, to help you reduce your stress levels:
Stress Busting Tip #1
Commit right now to releasing every negative thought from yesterday and be mindful of the now – this present moment. Take in three very deep breaths and slowly release each one.
As you take those deep breaths, feel each and every concern, each and every problem, and each and every unresolved moment, begin to dissolve. Keep your focus on your breathing. You can deal with your concerns and problems at a later time, but for now, you want only to be in this very moment.
As you feel your concerns and problems dissolving, keep taking deep and slow breaths and feel yourself getting lighter as you go to your inner quiet place. Go deep inside to a place where you feel you are at peace. Then just relax and breathe in deeply and enjoy the feeling of being present and at peace within yourself.
Use this special time and place to be calm. Free your mind and body of all worry, all regret, all disappointment, all anger and any grief that you may have been feeling earlier.
Stress Busting Tip #2
Next, think of one quick and easy act that helps you relax, such as taking a quick stroll, doing some gardening, listening to some music, and then go and do that thing. Whilst you’re doing this act, keep your mind in its quiet and calm place.
Practice this act of being quiet and calm every day and you’ll soon see the benefits that it brings into all areas of your life. At the first sign of feeling stressed, go back to this mindful, quiet place and start all over again until you’ve reached your inner place of calm.
Stress Busting Tip #3
The very best thing you can do for yourself is to eat, drink and rest to your best physical and mental health. This may not always seem easy in modern life, as we often feel that our attention and energy is being drawn in all directions at once!
Stress can easily be brought on by not eating and drinking properly, or when you don’t get the number of hours of sleep that you need each night.
Limit the amount of salt, sugar, caffeine and alcohol you consume and drink plenty of clean, pure water each day. Do at least some form of moderate exercise every day, even if it’s only a 20 minute brisk walk. This will breathe new life into your skin and hair, and will nourish all of your vital organs.
Take time to breathe properly. It’s easy to forget about the quality of our breathing when we’re stressed or rushing around. Take the time everyday to focus on your breathing and take deep belly breathes to send pure oxygen to all of your body.
Laughter is often said to be the best medicine, so find something that you find funny and laugh, and then laugh some more!
Spend time doing the things that give you the most joy and pleasure. It’s easy to stop doing the things that we love doing when we’re so busy doing the things that we think we have to do. Engage in healthy and fulfilling relationships and work on any problems that could erode the closeness that you have with someone special.
When we are content and living a balanced life, we seem to be able to brush off everyday stresses and the hold they seem to have on us gets weaker. We’re better equipped to deal with the unexpected when we’re living more authentically and in line with our highest values.
You can take control of your life today. Identify and then isolate one thing that is causing you stress in your life right now, and then work on it until you regain control.
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