Stress Management: 3 Simple Ways to Handle Your Stress.
October 28th, 2008 Posted in Anxiety and DepressionMore times than not stress tends to sneak up on us.It can hide until you can’t hold it in anymore then it will explode; it happens to men, women, children and everyone else. Stress does not care who you are.It can be a friend or it can be a foe. The choice is yours.
If you allow stress to be your enemy, it is likely that you will suffer physically.Doctor’s have said that between 75 and 90 percent of patients they have seen relate stress to their illness.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can turn stress into serenity by following any of these three successful stress management methods: (1) Control the meaning you assign to the stress; (2) Change the situation that produces the stress, and (3) Control the effects that stress has on your body.
Adjust Your Attitude To Change Your Perspective
If worry is a major stressor in your life or you are frustrated that others behave poorly or without your sense of morality, your stress derives mainly from how you interpret the world. If you want to know the best way to address the type of stress you might have, you need to look at stress management psychology.
The issue of stress management that would pertain to this is that your thoughts cause the stress, not the specific situation.Write down the thoughts that bring on your stress when it happens. Relate the situation and the people involved. Understand that thoughts determine feelings. If you control your thoughts, you control feelings.You don’t necessarily have to change your opinion, just change the way you think about you opinion.When you realize and accept this concept, the stress management method will become easier for you.
Change The Situation
If your present situation is at the heart of your stress and damaging your sense of control and self esteem and you know you have to make a change, then you may choose to use a different stress management method.
If you define the problem, you will be able to change your situation.When you have defined the problem, think of ideas to change it while you write down the pro’s and con’s of the idea.If nothing comes to mind, leave it alone for a couple days and come back and think about it later. Every stress management method takes time.
Control The Effects
If the safety valve for your stress is physical, for instance, you experience a lot of colds and headaches, or experience high blood pressure or asthma, that is your body’s way of saying that you’ve had enough. Physical stress requires a physical stress management method.Plenty of sleep, eating healthy foods, exercise frequently and get rid of your caffeine, alcohol, and sugar intake.
When we incorporate both the mind and the body in our stress management methods, we increase our ability to balance stress.