Article by terry rakings
Techniques For Stress Relief – A Quick Guide
You’re under a lot of stress and need stress relief techniques, pronto! You’ve come to the right place. Let’s look at several techniques for stress relief. Several may be new to you and be perfect for use in your situation.
Take Care Of Your Body
It may not seem obvious, but there is a mind-body connection. If you take better care of your body, and body will take better care of you. Your mind can relax and get to work solving any problems you have. The benefits of this stress relief technique you will enjoy every day.
Get the right amount of the right food. Eat properly. You haven’t had a nutrition class? You can’t hire a nutritionist to fix all your food for you? No need – and no excuses. We all know basic things about nutrition. Even following the basics will help your body do better.
So: what should you do? Eat more vegetables. Get more fiber. Limit the fried foods and processed foods. Cut back on white flour and sugar. Eat out less often. Get enough water, and cut back on sodas. Take a multi-vitamin. Get more exercise. You know the drill. Just do it.
Exercise will also help a lot – be sure you’re getting some every day. The endorphins you’ll feel when you finish will motivate you to do it again the next day, and the next.This exercise can be as simple as going for a walk or as intense as going to the gym or hiking the Grand Canyon. The idea is to just do more than you are now. We can all improve.
Get enough sleep! Many – if not most – of us are perpetually sleep deprived. While we think we’ll catch up on the weekend, usually we don’t. And it is hard for our body to run without enough “down time” to heal and grow, which is done primarily while we sleep.
Know Your Limits
A lot of us like to please others. That can be why we sometimes have time telling someone “no” when they ask us to do something. But saying “yes” to everything isn’t fair to us or our schedules. It just adds more stress and obligations. Adding the stress relief technique of saying “no” or “can I think about it?” (to buy more time instead of automatically agreeing to something) can make a difference in our level of overload.
Work Ahead, Not Behind
Rather than waiting until the last minute to do things, work ahead a bit. This stress relief technique can be implemented in our lives in many ways. Think about your own life. Maybe it means having your English term paper finished a day or two ahead of time, letting you relax the night before you turn it in. Or maybe it is leaving home ten minutes earlier than usual for church, so that you aren’t rushing in from the parking lot out of breath and trying to feel the spirit. Of course, there will be times where things don’t go as planned, but those should be the exception rather than the rule.
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