Stress Management

 

Healthy tips for managing stress

In general, stress is related to both external and internal factors. External factors include your physical environment, your job, relationships with others, your home, and all the situations, challenges, difficulties, and expectations you're confronted with on a daily basis.

Internal factors determine your body's ability to respond to and deal with, the external stress-inducing factors. Internal factors that influence your ability to handle stress include your nutritional status, overall health and fitness levels, emotional well-being, your ability to control stress through relaxation techniques or other strategies, and the amount of sleep and rest you get.

 Three main techniques that can help to relieve stress are:

•  Exercise
• Relaxation and Meditation techniques
• Time manage   

  1.Exercise 

• Exercise can be a key, central method to compensate for stressors.
• Physical exercise not only promotes overall fitness, but it helps you to manage emotional stress and tension as well.
• Exercise can also aid in relaxation and improve sleep.
• For one thing, exercise can emotionally remove one temporarily from a stressful environment or situation.
• Being fit and healthy also increases your ability to deal with stress as it arises.

2.Relaxation and Meditation techniques

 Yoga:  This is a form of exercise, but it can also be a meditation. There are many types of yoga . The ones that focus on slow movement, stretchingand deep breathing are best for lowering your anxiety and stress.

Deep breathing:  When you practice deep breathing, you turn on your body’s natural ability to relax. This creates a state of deep rest that can change how your body responds to stress. It sends more oxygen to your brain and calms the part of your nervous system that handles your ability to relax.

Try belly breathing. Get comfortable, close your eyes , and place one hand on your stomach  and the other on your chest. Take a deep breath in through your nose. You should feel your belly rise more than your chest. 

Connect with people:  Spend time with a friend or family member who will listen to you. It is a natural way to calm you and lower your stress. When you connect with people in person, your body releases a hormone  that stops your fight-or-flight response. You relax.

Laugh therapy:  When you laugh, you take in more oxygen. Your heart, lungs  and muscles get a boost and your body releases those feel-good hormones. Laughter also improves your immune system, lessens pain, and improves your mood for long periods time.

Talk therapy: Long-term talk therapy helps some people deal with stress. One approach, cognitive behavioral therapy, helps you change negative thought patterns. Your therapist can guide you toward other approaches that might be helpful.