Friday, April 26, 2013

Are you looking for an effective way to manage your stress?

By Adeleke Ademuyiwa


Manage the fundamental causes of stress and lay aside all of those remedies that work only to cover its negative effects.

Stop surviving and start living: discover easy tips and suggestions that can ensure that stress stops controlling your daily life.

A toxic stress free life is so much easier to secure if one just understands the components stress is created from.

Everyone will face the impact of stress at one time or the other within their lifetime, so it pays to learn its rules and feel equipped to manage it better if and when it does strike.

I advise you not to take this issue lightly, because if you do, Stress may impact you when you are least prepared.

Can relaxation or workout aid in controlling stress?

Ask a lot of people, and they're going to suggest meditation, mindfulness, relaxation or exercise are the best strategies for minimizing stress. If you do, in fact, struggle with frequent elevated levels of stress, however, it is rather likely that you have asked yourself precisely why these stress-reduction activities don t succeed in preserving your low-stress levels.

Just like a yoyo, your stress levels go down, but soon come back up as you re-enter into the hustle and bustle of life. So you return to your stress-reducing activity, and the cycle keeps going. If you have suffered from the stress experience, all of this won't be news to you.

The way we think has a large part to play in our regulation of stress.

Stress busting activities are essential, so please don't think I'm suggesting you shouldn't use them.

With that said, the top contributory and typically overlooked factor to the encounter of unhealthy stress is our outlook.

My suggested way out of the problem is this. Use relaxing and calming strategies, but consider using them in connection with strategies that can help to re-structure the way you generally interpret things.

With these mind-set skills, you will definitely be in the position to note the mental effects of stress and stop stress before it can have influence on you.

Our mind-set is undeniably a very complex thing.

I can recall one icy morning. I was walking to my office. All I could see was slippery freezing ice. It felt like I was going to drop at every step.

I recall noticing a flashing picture of myself, in my mind, falling and smacking my head on a stone. I grabbed the nearest thing I could find and held on tightly. I certainly did not want to die.

Then it happened...

I saw this chap, ski along. I think he was even whistling to himself as he passed by smoothly. It was obvious that he was not apprehensive in the least.

In my shock, I smiled at him pretending I was not anxious and watched him go by. Interestingly, I actually had learnt how to ice skate over the years, so I made the decision it made sense to imitate the boy.

As soon as I made this decision, the icy, threatening road turned into a harmless puppy. I knew how to ice skate, and I had realised that I, in fact, had the skill to be perfect at it. All I had to do was to use this skill.

This small tale gives a good viewpoint into how to keep control of stress better. Our reactions to difficult situations is routinely decided by our view that those situations far surpass our ability and individual resources to manage them.

Taking time to examine the larger picture, could help us see that we actually have the skill to manage those situations.




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