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4 Tips to Control Stress.

Posted by yogi on Feb 8th, 2010 | 0 comments home title

Count from one to ten.

Mother tells her children thisand is works if they are angry.

Count to ten when you recognise stress coming. It does not matter if you do it loudly or quietly.

This is often all you need to do.

Many prefer to count down instead and as they count down to zero, it feels as if their stress is slowly going down.

Take a deep breath.

Inhale taking deep long slow breaths. Breathe in slowly through your nostril filling your lungs. Exhale through your mouth slowly after holding your breath to the count of four.

As you continue to do this a few times, you will notice as your breathing becoming slower, you feel yourself becoming more and more relaxed. Like counting, this is a quick and easy way to reduce your stress level.

In addition, as you breathe in and hold your breath, you create a picture in your mind of all stress slowly moving into your lungs and when you breathe out, you are forcing stress out leaving you more relaxed and calm.

You can also use a stress relief squeez ball.

Get up and walk about.

This is a good way to gain stress relief quickly.

When the task is very stressful, get up and walk away from it. I do not mean walk away from it for good. You are removing the problem temporarily. It gives you time to come to grips with is as you calm down.

By doing this you are removing a stressful problem from the forefront of your mind and allow your Subconscious Mind to find solution options. The eponymous Morgan Stanley, when stuck with a problem and no solution, would suddenly drop what he was doing and play a game of solitaire. After a while several ideas come forwards in his mind.

You can go for a walk especially in the park. Being near to nature is very relaxing. You tend to synchronise with the frequency of earth. As your brainwave level slows down you enjoy tranquillity and peace. You feel calm and relaxed. If you are home, clean the house. Get the vacuum cleaner out. From your mind you are removing the problem. You will be surprised how different you feel about your task in front of your.

In addition exercise relieves stress.

It is recognised that exercise reduces stress.

Talk to someone or write a journal.

An excellent stress buster. You are sharing your problem by talking to someone. You may get good tips especially if that someone has experience in your field. A wider approach to your problem develops. It may feel, by sharing your problem, you are no longer isolated. You are not alone.

A single thought or idea that could be the solution to your problem, is perhaps the best stress buster. You become focussed and energised because you can now see success as the only outcome. Your stress will changes to the desired stress that produces peak performance.

Writing a journal is good for relieving stress. It anchors what specific things are stressing you. Putting it down on paper transfers it into words that you can either keep or discard. It releases the stress. So if you are alone, or there is no one to talk to when things are going wrong, write it down in your stress journal. Ink on paper is the next best thing.