Monday, April 15, 2013

How to manage stress

By Adeleke Ademuyiwa


Get rid of the root of your stress and drop suggestions that only wear down its symptoms.

Stop existing and begin to live: get to know uncomplicated techniques to help you stop stress from making life so hard

Honestly, breaking free from stress becomes tons simpler if you can muster a good practical knowledge concerning the rules concerned.

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 exercise, massage etc. can cause a reduction in stress levels. Unfortunately, you may have found that despite your efforts at using some of these strategies effectively, you never manage to keep your toxic stress level down.

You just keep finding that the cycle of stress keeps continuing, no matter how effective your strategies are. So you return to your stress decreasing activity to discover that the cycle goes on and on. I am positive you can recognize this cycle.

The manner in which we think has a hefty part to play in our alleviation of 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 afore mentioned strategies will produce a solid and more sustainable reduction of the of toxic stress.

Improving your ability to see things differently (noticing the bigger picture) will assist you to manage stress better.

Our perception can be really complicated.

I can recall one icy morning. I was walking to my office. All I could see was slippey freezing 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.

I was positively gobsmacked and to some extent ashamed that I had let the ice to threaten me in this particular manner. I was cognizant of how to ice skate so I became determined to do precisely what the teenager was doing.

At that particular point, my fear and concerns about dying from falling disappeared entirely. Ice skating was a skill I already owned. All I had to do was to employ this skill.

This story suggests a simple yet effective approach for handling stress. Our reactions to broblematic situations is routinely influenced by our perception that those situations far surpass our abiitiy and individual resources to handle them.

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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