Tuesday, April 16, 2013

A basic approach to handling stress

By Adeleke Ademuyiwa


Manage the main causes of stress and lay aside all those approaches that operate only to hide its effects.

Stop surviving and start living: discover easy strategies that can ensure that stress stops controlling your reality.

A toxic stress free life is so much simpler to attain if one just understands the basic features stress is built upon.

Stress is a human condition, so there's no point presuming that you might be somehow exempted from it effects. It's far safer to become conversant with it so that you have an adequate understanding of how to manage it.

I counsel you not to take this matter lightly, because if you do, Stress may impact you when you're least prepared.

Can relaxing activities or fitness be useful?

Activities like pleasing activities, meditation, mindfulness and exercise have commonly been accepted as effective methods of reducing stress. Sadly, hours upon hours of using these techniques alone does not tend to work to keep a consistently low stress level.

Like a yoyo, your levels of stress go down, but soon comes back up as you re-enter into the headache of life. So you return to your stress-reducing activity, and the cycle keeps going. If you have undergone the stress experience, all of this will not be news to you.

Our mind-set plays a really important role in the habitual effects of harmful stress.

The stress minimizing activities are most certainly really important, and I consistently advise individuals to get into the habit of using them as frequently as possible.

Unknowingly, for many, the mastermind behind any experience of toxic stress is our mind-set.

My way to solve this challenge is this: Adding techniques that assist to modify our perception of situations around us to the use of the fore mentioned strategies will generate a solid and more sustainable reduction of the of toxic stress.

Improving your capacity to see things differently (noticing the bigger picture) might help you manage stress better.

The way wee look at things can add a variety of complexities to coping.

I recall one frozen winter's day when I was strolling from my vehicle going to my office. All I could see was slippery cold ice. I found myself pretty much slipping with every step.

I recall seeing a flashing image of myself, in my mind, falling and smacking my head on a stone. I grabbed the closest thing I could find and held on tightly. I certainly didn't want to die.

Then it happened

I noticed this kid who must have been about 15 years-old skiing on top of the ice. He nodded at me as he skidded elegantly through the path. It was like he was not even noticing the ice.

This caused an outlandish shock to my system, and boy was I ashamed. Why was I letting the ice to bully me in this manner? What was interesting with this predicament was that I knew how to Ice skate, and I have been to the ice ring on many occasion. So I made a decision to copy the boy.

Possibly instantly the ice stopped feeling so threatening. I knew how to ice skate, and I had realised that I, in fact, had the skill to master it. All I had to do was to use this skill.

This story suggests a good approach for managing stress. You see, the way we deal with any tricky environments we are immersed in is wholly decided by how vulnerable we perceive ourselves to be towards those situations and our views of how well equipped we are to handle the situations.

Taking time to look at the bigger picture, could help us see that we actually have the capability to manage those situations.




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