Wednesday, April 1, 2009

An Easy Ways To Relieve Your Stress

By Josh Simpson

From time immemorial, mankind has always had the zeal to strive for greater control. Whether it is the sciences, or the arts or any other field whatsoever, man continues to walk forward into the unknown. But such glory has a flipside to it. War, violence, pollution and other things have spoiled the show. But this list still remains incomplete without another issue. Advancement has complicated our lives beyond belief and the consequence of such dizzying complexity has been well described by a word that was coined by an endocrinologist Dr. Hans Selye, in the 1930s, and that word is "stress".

Stress is a word, which is inextricably linked with our lives today. Everyday, all our actions are characterized by stress in some way or the other. This word is used to describe a highly abnormal level of emotional pressure marked by alarm and fear in a crisis, or for that matter, any emotional situation whatsoever. Also, stress finds various ways of expression through negative actions like, suicide, self-mutilation, and outbursts of temper, verbal and physical abuse and so on. The statistics are on the rise. In the modern day, we accept stress as a part of our lives that we have to take into our stride while we battle through life. Financial problems, personal safety and suchlike matters hem in people.

The enterprising creature that man is, it is perhaps not surprising that he has been trying to find a way out to combat the problem of stress. One such ray of hope is anxiety therapy. Anxiety therapy comprises relaxation techniques including meditation, to combat stress. Hypno-therapy is often used to combat stress-related issues using a combination of both mental and physical relaxation to calm the subject's mind. Another attribute of anxiety therapy is also Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT. This therapy uses three methods to help a patient suffering from stress related problems, using cognitive, behavioral and emotional methods. That is, through the thinking patterns, his/her daily actions and by channelizing one's emotions in positive ways.

In today's world, even children are suffering increasingly from depression related issues due to pressures such as academic performance and peer pressure. Teenagers are committing suicide, as confused young people look to escape. There are so many expectations on our young people. They must multi-task and cope with a new breed of pressures. When multitasking becomes a burden it leads to emotional claustrophobia and ultimately, stress.

To resole this threatening crisis there are different avenues that have opened up. People are flocking to the therapists in large numbers, in need of anxiety therapy. Also, anxiety therapy includes sessions and hypnosis, physical exercises, massage sessions, standard medication including anxiolytics which are drugs. ACT or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a technique being applied in anxiety therapy.

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