Stress Management Techniques

Successful Stress Management Techniques

Stress is an enemy, there are a lot of ways to combat this enemy, let me introduce a few of them to you, first step is to acknowledge that stress is good and make stress your friend. Like most natural responses or instincts, this is something you need to get used to, understand that stress is natural and accept the fact its there, sometimes stress can drive you to do better and to perform at your best, you do, however need to carefully monitor the stress levels.

Look around you, if you se anyone that deals well with stress, study what he is doing and try to do the same, when people around are losing their head, which keeps calm? What are they doing differently? What is their attitude? What language do they use, all these factors can help you deal better with stress.You can trick your body into relaxing by using heavy breathing. Breathe in slowly for a count of 7 then breathe out for a count of 11. Repeat the 7-11 breathing until your heart rate slows down, your sweaty palms dry off and things start to feel more normal.
Exercise to reduce stress - If relaxing to a state where even your blood vessels are almost still is the ultimate in stress relief, surely exercise, which gets even your blood pumping at breakneck speed, must be the ultimate stress demon. Not so. Exercise is a big stress reliever. In fact, the bigger the muscles you exercise, the more less stress you will bear. That's because exercise releases physical tension in the muscles.Here's another tip: exercise in water to reduce stress even more. Why? Because you are more buoyant on water; gravity takes a much gentler toll on your body, so the tension created in your muscles just by holding you up gets released.

For the ultimate stress release, exercise in water. Or meditate in water. Or laugh in water. Laughter reduces stress, too. Yes, laughter also relieves stress. The muscles we use to laugh are those tense ones in our faces. When we loosen them, we release tension from our faces. We also allow more blood to flow to the pleasure centers of the brain (which might be why someone with a 'good sense of humor' is considered more attractive).Lack of sleep, poor diet and no exercise wreaks havoc on our body and mind. Kind of obvious, but worth mentioning as it’s often ignored as a stress management technique. Listen to your mother and don’t burn the candle at both ends! There is good stress, and there is bad stress. Good stress is the type that propels a person to excel, to reach new heights or to complete a big project on time.