How to manage stress

By Adeleke Ademuyiwa


Manage the root causes of stress and abandon all of those methods that work only to hide its negative effects.

Stop existing and begin to live: get to know uncomplicated techniques to help you stop stress from making life so hard

Honestly, breaking free from stress becomes tons simpler if you can muster a good practical knowledge concerning the rules concerned.

Stress is a human condition, so there's no point presuming that you are somehow exempted from it effects. It's far safer to become conversant with it ensuring that you really are you have got an adequate knowledge of how to manage it.

I advise you not to take this issue lightly, because if you do, Stress may impact you when you are least prepared.

Can relaxation or workout assist in controlling stress?

It has primarily been acknowledged that activities like relaxation, exercise, massage etc. can reduce intensity of your stress. If you do in fact struggle with frequent elevated levels of stress however, it's very likely that you have asked yourself precisely why these stress decreasing activities don t succeed in keeping your low levels of stress.

You just keep finding that the cycle of stress keeps continuing, no matter how effective your strategies are. So you return to your stress decreasing activity to discover that the cycle goes on and on. I am positive you can recognize this cycle.

The manner in which we think has a hefty part to play in our alleviation of stress.

Please, don't assume that I'm suggesting that you drop all those stress reducing activities you may very well be using. On the contrary, I recommend that these activities are genuinely beneficial.

Unknowingly, for many, the mastermind behind any experience of toxic stress is our mind-set.

My suggested resolution of this problem is this. Use relaxing and calming strategies, but use them in connection with tactics that assist to re-structure way in which you generally interprete things.

Improving your capacity to see things differently (seeing the bigger picture) might help you manage stress better.

Our perception can be really complicated.

I can recall one icy morning. I was walking to my office. All I could see was slippey freezing ice. I found myself just about slipping with every step.

I recall seeing a flashing image of myself, in my mind, slipping and smacking my head on a stone. I grabbed the nearest thing i could find and held on tightly. I certainly didn't want to die.

Then it happened...

I noticed this kid who was probably17 years old skiing on top of the ice. His hands behind his back moving calmly and elegantly across the ice, one foot after another in a skating fashion. He had no concern for the ice at all.

I was positively gobsmacked and to some extent ashamed that I had let the ice to threaten me in that manner. What was interesting with this given situation was that I knew how to Ice skate and I've been to the ice ring on many ocassion. So I made a decision to copy the boy.

At that particular point, my fear and concerns about dying from falling disappeared entirely. Ice skating was a skill I already owned. All I had to do was to employ this skill.

This story suggests a simple yet effective approach for handling stress. Our reactions to broblematic situations is routinely influenced by our perception that those situations far surpass our abiitiy and individual resources to handle them.

Taking time to look at the larger picture, could help us realise that we actually possess the capability to manage those situations.




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