Tuesday, April 23, 2013

How to manage stress

By Adeleke Ademuyiwa


Tackle the underlying reasons for your stress and stop focusing just on regulating its symptoms.

Stop existing and begin to live: get to know straight forward techniques to support you stop stress from making life so difficult

Believe me, wrestling with stress will become a lot simpler when you finally fully figure out the principles it possesses.

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

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

Can relaxation or physical activity assist in managing stress?

It has principally been recognized that activities like massage, relaxation, exercise etc. can cause a reduction in stress levels. Unfortunately, you may have noticed that despite your efforts at using some of these strategies effectively, it's been impossible to manage to keep your toxic stress level down.

You keep finding that the cycle of stress keeps continuing, no matter how effective your strategies are. So you go back to your stress decreasing activity to discover that the cycle goes on and on. In the event you have undergone the stress experience, all of these issues will not be news to you.

Our perspective on things, Impacts heavily on our efficacy at handling stress.

Please, don't assume that I'm suggesting that you drop all those stress reducing activities you may very well be using. On the contrary, I recommend that these activities are genuinely beneficial.

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

My solution for this issue is this: Adding methods that can help to modify our perception of situations around us to the use of the above mentioned strategies will produce a solid and more sustainable reduction of the of toxic stress.

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

Our perception can be really complicated.

I remember one frozen December as I was walking from my vehicle going to my office. It had just snowed, so the road was covered in threatening slippery ice. I found myself just about slipping with every step.

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

Then the most amazing thing happened...

This young boy, came down the road skiing happily on the ice. His hands behind his back moving calmly and elegantly across the ice, one foot after the other in a skating fashion. He had no concern for the ice at all.

In my amazement, I smiled at him pretending I was not afraid and watched him go by. What was interesting regarding this was that I knew how to Ice skate and i have been to the ice ring on many occasion. So I decided to copy the boy.

Almost instantly the ice did not feel 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 employ this skill.

This small tale gives a powerful perspective into how to work with stress better. You see, the manner in which we deal with any difficult scenarios we are threatened by is fully decided by how vulnerable we feel towards those situations and our impressions of just how well equipped we are to handle the situations.

Taking time to look at the larger picture, could help us realise that we actually possess the capability to manage those situations.




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