Dealing With Stress and Anxiety
Created By Sophie Brading On 4 June, 2009
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Added By Sophie Brading On June 4, 2009, 11:37 pm
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Modern life is fast, overflowing with deadlines, frustrations, and demands. For many people, stress is so familiar that it has become routine and they don't even realise how stressed they are until their body tells them.
Stress can be useful at certain times; it can help you function under pressure. But when you’re constantly feeling your life is running at 100 miles an hour and feeling overwhelmed, your mind and body really do pay the price.
Numerous health problems are caused by stress. These include pains of any kind, heart disease, digestive problems, depression, skin conditions and sleep problems.
So, what if you are frequently finding feeling exhausted, overwhelmed or stressed?
Well, it really is time to take action and bring your life back into balance. Learning how to recognize the signs of stress and doing something to reduce its harmful effects will improve your health and life dramatically.
You might ask - what exactly is stress?
Stress is a natural response your body has to an event that makes you feel at risk or upset in some way. When you sense danger – whether it’s real or imagined – the body's defence systems initiate a rapid, routine process known as the “fight-or-flight” response.
The stress response is the body’s way of protecting you. When working correctly, it will keep you focussed, active, and alert. But beyond a point, stress stops being useful and causes damage to your health, make you bad tempered, lower your efficiency, affect your relationships and the overall quality of your life.
When does stress become harmful?
It’s important to know your own limit. What is stressful varies from person to person. Some people thrive on it and find it exciting, while others feel overwhelmed at the slightest irritation. Your ability to tolerate stress depends on the strength of your relationships, your general outlook on life, your emotional intelligence, and genetics.
So the answer is to listen to your body and look for the signs:
Are YOU in control of stress or do you need to slow down?
Are you easily distracted or moody?
Do you repeatedly look at your watch?
When someone takes too long to get to the point, do you want to hurry them along?
Do you finish you meals first?
Do you feel frustrated because you are caught behind others when walking down the street? Do you become wound up if you sat for an hour with nothing to do?
Do you walk out of restaurants or shops if you are meet with a queue?
If you are caught in slow-moving traffic, do you seem to get more annoyed than other drivers?
When I come home at night, do I feel exhausted?
Do you find it difficult to let go of your anger?
If you answer, yes to more than three or four of these questions, maybe its time to take our “Reduce your Stress Exercises”.
Reduce your stress - Quick Fast Steps
Smile – by smiling your body releases feel good chemicals. The longer the smile the happier you will feel and ultimately the less stressed.
Close your eyes – as long as you aren’t driving, this is a fantastic trick to relaxing and regaining focus and balance. Simply shut them for as long as is possible.
Walk away – if you are in a hectic environment or experiencing something you don’t like, the easiest way to reduce the stress is to just get up, turnaround and walk away!
Find some space – this can be challenging at times but finding solitude is a really quick way of rejuvenating yourself.
Go outside – breathe in the fresh air, look at the sky, appreciate the space around you. If you are in the city, find an open space if you can but simply just getting outside will help.
Find some water – water helps in lots of ways. When stressed, keep drinking it; get a big glass of it once an hour. Take a walk beside some water, look at it, and listen to it. Get into some if you can, for a bath or a swim.
Breathe deeply - breathing is the foundation of sanity, because it is the way we provide our brain and every other vital organ in our body with the oxygen needed for us to survive. Breathing also eliminates toxins from our systems.
Top 10 Stresses
Partner’s death
Divorce
Marriage separation
Jail term
Death of a close relative
Injury or illness
Marriage
Fired from job
Marriage reconciliation
Retirement
Description:
Modern life is fast, overflowing with deadlines, frustrations, and demands. For many people, stress is so familiar that it has become routine and they don't even realise how stressed they are until their body tells them.
Stress can be useful at certain times; it can help you function under pressure. But when you’re constantly feeling your life is running at 100 miles an hour and feeling overwhelmed, your mind and body really do pay the price.
Numerous health problems are caused by stress. These include pains of any kind, heart disease, digestive problems, depression, skin conditions and sleep problems.
So, what if you are frequently finding feeling exhausted, overwhelmed or stressed?
Well, it really is time to take action and bring your life back into balance. Learning how to recognize the signs of stress and doing something to reduce its harmful effects will improve your health and life dramatically.
You might ask - what exactly is stress?
Stress is a natural response your body has to an event that makes you feel at risk or upset in some way. When you sense danger – whether it’s real or imagined – the body's defence systems initiate a rapid, routine process known as the “fight-or-flight” response.
The stress response is the body’s way of protecting you. When working correctly, it will keep you focussed, active, and alert. But beyond a point, stress stops being useful and causes damage to your health, make you bad tempered, lower your efficiency, affect your relationships and the overall quality of your life.
When does stress become harmful?
It’s important to know your own limit. What is stressful varies from person to person. Some people thrive on it and find it exciting, while others feel overwhelmed at the slightest irritation. Your ability to tolerate stress depends on the strength of your relationships, your general outlook on life, your emotional intelligence, and genetics.
So the answer is to listen to your body and look for the signs:
Are YOU in control of stress or do you need to slow down?
Are you easily distracted or moody?
Do you repeatedly look at your watch?
When someone takes too long to get to the point, do you want to hurry them along?
Do you finish you meals first?
Do you feel frustrated because you are caught behind others when walking down the street? Do you become wound up if you sat for an hour with nothing to do?
Do you walk out of restaurants or shops if you are meet with a queue?
If you are caught in slow-moving traffic, do you seem to get more annoyed than other drivers?
When I come home at night, do I feel exhausted?
Do you find it difficult to let go of your anger?
If you answer, yes to more than three or four of these questions, maybe its time to take our “Reduce your Stress Exercises”.
Reduce your stress - Quick Fast Steps
Smile – by smiling your body releases feel good chemicals. The longer the smile the happier you will feel and ultimately the less stressed.
Close your eyes – as long as you aren’t driving, this is a fantastic trick to relaxing and regaining focus and balance. Simply shut them for as long as is possible.
Walk away – if you are in a hectic environment or experiencing something you don’t like, the easiest way to reduce the stress is to just get up, turnaround and walk away!
Find some space – this can be challenging at times but finding solitude is a really quick way of rejuvenating yourself.
Go outside – breathe in the fresh air, look at the sky, appreciate the space around you. If you are in the city, find an open space if you can but simply just getting outside will help.
Find some water – water helps in lots of ways. When stressed, keep drinking it; get a big glass of it once an hour. Take a walk beside some water, look at it, and listen to it. Get into some if you can, for a bath or a swim.
Breathe deeply - breathing is the foundation of sanity, because it is the way we provide our brain and every other vital organ in our body with the oxygen needed for us to survive. Breathing also eliminates toxins from our systems.
Top 10 Stresses
Partner’s death
Divorce
Marriage separation
Jail term
Death of a close relative
Injury or illness
Marriage
Fired from job
Marriage reconciliation
Retirement