Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Understanding how to overcome stress

By Adeleke Ademuyiwa


Treat the root of your stress and drop suggestions that only wear down its signs and symptoms.

Stop surviving and start living: discover easy tips and suggestions that can ensure that stress stops controlling your daily life.

Trust me, wrestling with stress will be a lot easier after you fully understand the principles concerned.

Everyone will face the impact of stress at one time or the other within their lifetime, so it pays to discover its rules and be prepared to manage it better if and when it does strike.

I advise you not to take this issue lightly, because if you do, Stress may impact you when you are least prepared.

Can relaxation or mind-calming exercise type strategies be of any use?

Ask most people, and they will suggest meditation, mindfulness, relaxation or exercise are the best methods for minimizing stress. In case you struggle with frequent elevated levels of stress. However, it's very likely that you have wondered why these stress minimizing activities do not succeed in preserving your low-stress levels.

Just like a yoyo, your stress levels go down, but soon come back up as you re-enter into the hustle and bustle of life. So you return to your stress-reducing activity, and the cycle keeps going. If you have suffered from the stress experience, all of this won't be news to you.

Our mind-set plays a vital part in the habitual effects of detrimental stress.

Please, don't assume that I'm suggesting that you drop all the stress-reducing activities you may very well be using. Quite the opposite, I like to recommend that these kinds of activities are incredibly beneficial.

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

My concept is this; if you apply tips that are oriented towards modifying your stress producing mind-set to your daily stress reducing activities, you will quickly be fit to say farewell to bad stress permanently.

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

Our mind-set is undeniably a very complex thing.

I recall one frozen winter as I was walking from my vehicle going to my office. The path was blanketed with a large amount of ice and was life-threatening. It felt like I was about to collapse at every step.

I can recall viewing an image in my mind of myself falling backwards, knocking my head and passing out. I grabbed the closest thing i could find and held on tightly. I certainly didn't want to die.

Then it happened...

This young boy, came down the road skiing happily on the ice. I believe he was even whistling to himself as he passed by smoothly. He had no concern for the ice at all.

This caused an extreme shock to my system, and boy was I humiliated. Why was i letting the ice to bully me in this manner? What was interesting with this predicament 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.

As soon as I made this decision, the icy, threatening road turned into a harmless puppy. I knew how to ice skate, and I had realised that I, in fact, had the skill to be perfect at it. All I had to do was to use this skill.

This story suggests a good approach for managing stress. You see, the manner in which we relate to any hard issues we are exposed to is totally decided by how vulnerable we feel towards those situations and our impressions of how well equipped we are to contend with the situations.

If we can take a step back and re-review those predicaments objectively, we might just accept that we do actually have the techniques to cope with the situations; it's only that the intense emotions triggered by stress covered our decision-making process.




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