Steps to Reduce stress
There are many different stresses that one's body has to deal with on a daily basis. Some good some bad. Eustress (good stress) can be someone giving you a compliment, seeing someone you love or any type of excitment. Distress (bad stress) can be overload at work, bills piling up, or the speeding ticket you got on the way home from work. Now there is always going to be a little bit of both types in your life, it's impossible to completely eliminate either kind of stress, but you can significantly shift the scale to the side of eustress many different ways. Here are several successful and easy ways to deter stress in your life.
1) Find a hobby: Find something that occupies your time outside of any stressful environment. You see in the movies all the time husbands in the garage working on a project and the wife comes in and yells "HAVE YOU FIXED THE FRONT DOOR YET, HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU!!" Well that project is keeping him sain in a life of constant stress. Not to pick on the wives, they have their hobbies too. It could be a daily phone call with her best friend, or a childs weekly soccer game or dance reheasal, yoga, or reading a book. Bottom line find something that pleases you and relaxes your mind for an hour every day.
2) Eat healthy foods: Different kinds of foods are known to regulate hormones in different ways. Caffeine has a large affect on mood and stress levels. The stimulant raises blood pressure and heart rate considerably, which "revs" the body and mind up, often making it hard to concentrate and resulting in "the jitters." Too much alcohol is destructive to the body in many ways: it dehydrates the body, breakdown the cells of the liver, and the big one is that it supresses the immune system. Remember getting to college in your first year you were so excited to get there that you drank yourself stupid and came out on the flip side with a nasty hangover and a cold, now you know why.
Foods rich in antioxidants like: green tea, whole grains, and an assortment of fruits and vegetables can help get rid of free radicals that are destructive on the body. Healthy fats in fish and nuts help regulate sex hormes testosterone and estrogen. Your body is made up of about 50-60% water, SO DRINK LOTS OF IT!
3)Help people: Helping in general makes you feel good. Talking to friends or family and helping them with an issue bothering them can help some issues that are bothering you. Help someone understand something, help a child read a book, teach someone a new trick. Anything that you do to make someone happy, will make you happy, guarenteed.
4)Sleep: Sleep is your time for your body and mind to recover. Without it you will burn out. Everyone has different sleeping patterns and needs but it is recommended that 7-9 hours a day are devouted to sleep. Simply, if your groggy all day your sleep was not plentiful the night before and you either need more sleep, or something you did right before you went to bed was keeping you from getting enough rest
Evaluate these factors in your life an see if there are improvements to make that will alleviate some distress in your life.
1) Find a hobby: Find something that occupies your time outside of any stressful environment. You see in the movies all the time husbands in the garage working on a project and the wife comes in and yells "HAVE YOU FIXED THE FRONT DOOR YET, HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU!!" Well that project is keeping him sain in a life of constant stress. Not to pick on the wives, they have their hobbies too. It could be a daily phone call with her best friend, or a childs weekly soccer game or dance reheasal, yoga, or reading a book. Bottom line find something that pleases you and relaxes your mind for an hour every day.
2) Eat healthy foods: Different kinds of foods are known to regulate hormones in different ways. Caffeine has a large affect on mood and stress levels. The stimulant raises blood pressure and heart rate considerably, which "revs" the body and mind up, often making it hard to concentrate and resulting in "the jitters." Too much alcohol is destructive to the body in many ways: it dehydrates the body, breakdown the cells of the liver, and the big one is that it supresses the immune system. Remember getting to college in your first year you were so excited to get there that you drank yourself stupid and came out on the flip side with a nasty hangover and a cold, now you know why.
Foods rich in antioxidants like: green tea, whole grains, and an assortment of fruits and vegetables can help get rid of free radicals that are destructive on the body. Healthy fats in fish and nuts help regulate sex hormes testosterone and estrogen. Your body is made up of about 50-60% water, SO DRINK LOTS OF IT!
3)Help people: Helping in general makes you feel good. Talking to friends or family and helping them with an issue bothering them can help some issues that are bothering you. Help someone understand something, help a child read a book, teach someone a new trick. Anything that you do to make someone happy, will make you happy, guarenteed.
4)Sleep: Sleep is your time for your body and mind to recover. Without it you will burn out. Everyone has different sleeping patterns and needs but it is recommended that 7-9 hours a day are devouted to sleep. Simply, if your groggy all day your sleep was not plentiful the night before and you either need more sleep, or something you did right before you went to bed was keeping you from getting enough rest
Evaluate these factors in your life an see if there are improvements to make that will alleviate some distress in your life.
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