People who claim to have found the secret to a stress-free life, please contact me ASAP. I would love to know your secret\u2014 as long as drugs are off the table!<\/p>\n
For the rest of us who struggle daily with heaps of responsibilities and are pitilessly slapped by technological entrapment, I have found that these four tricks do help me release some of the bottled-up stress.\u00a0 Try them, but don\u2019t stress over them not working immediately. Give it time, and relax!<\/p>\n
Your kids might be starving\u2014despite just having finished their dinners\u2014 your hubbie is asking for nowhere-to-be found items, and you’re trying to finish that phone call. Sound familiar? Instead of sinking further down into despair, proudly and assertively walk out of the room and into your bathroom.<\/p>\n
Hot baths are the most enjoyable way you can fight stress. If bubbles\u00a0 and heavenly fragrances are included, all the better! Your body surrenders to the joy of relaxation and you cannot help but feel calmer as you de-stress and enjoy the warmth and perfume. The setback is that it will only last for as long as the water is hot, but it is definitely a great stress-reliever.<\/p>\n
No, I\u2019m not kidding you. Most of our stress springs from our inability to complete a task, or our mediocre performance at it. For instance, if you need to write an essay for school, or a report for work, and your reading pace is slow or average, you’ll find that the time stress added to the project stress makes the task harder than it needs to be. But if you’re a speed reader, and you know how to read whole chapters in minutes, and entire books in only a couple of hours, then instantly your stress level will decrease, and you’ll have more valuable time to focus on your writing.<\/p>\n
If you’re not currently a speed reader, what needs improvement? Do you need improved speed reading skills, or to get better at your grammar, or a better vocabulary? Identify the skills that could use some refining, and work on the things you can improve, see how your reading speed will lead to becoming more efficient at work \u2013 and how your stress level will lower substantially.<\/p>\n
When you\u2019re at the office and your workload just keeps getting bigger and bigger, stress seems inevitable. But think again. You\u2019ll be 200% more productive if you can take a minute to relax and then get back to work with a stress-free mind, right? So take a quick break and call up something funny to watch \u2013 maybe the one your friend forwarded to you that you haven’t had a chance to view. Whether it’s a cute cat video, a make-you-wince fail video, or a funny prank, there must be one video that you always watch to feel better.<\/p>\n
Beware of getting too absorbed and forgetting all about the world\u2014 yes, it happens to the best of us! Pinning humorous memes for two hours straight when you should be doing reports and preparing presentations is not what we have in mind. Just remember that laughter is a natural stress-killer, so don\u2019t forget to make it part of your life.<\/p>\n
When stress is too overwhelming to even handle, just go outside. The concrete cities we\u2019ve built somehow magnetize stress. Go to places where your eyes don\u2019t meet skyscrapers but are able to see far ahead.<\/p>\n
Open spaces give us a sense of freedom and control, something our packed office spaces don\u2019t; they tend to suffocate us and make us panic. Go out and just breathe. Be conscious of how air fills up your lungs and then slowly eases out. This will release most of your stress and allow you to get back to whatever it was that you were doing with a different approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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