1. Stress can be cumulative when you allow previous days stresses to pile on top of more recently aquired stress. This stress can be circumvented by deep breathing and the abandonment of concerns from previous days. Take in 3 very deep breaths and slowly release each one being mindful only of the present. Allow each and every problem to dissolve, being only in the moment.
2. Limit the amount of alcohol, caffine, sugar and salt in your diet, make sure you get sufficient sleep and drink plenty of pure clean water every day. Take time to breathe properly, take deep belly breaths. Laugh regularly its very therapeutic. Take time to do the things you enjoy most.
3. Often, when we have too much stress in our lives, we want to just give up. We must always hope for something better! When we give up our fight-or-flight seems to just fizzle and we become caught up in a maze of one unfortunate event following another.
You can take control immediately. Isolate only one particular stressor in your life and then work on it until you regain control. At the very least, have some new hope! Being hopeful is a quiet confidence that eventually, all will be well. Write out a plan today about how you will tackle just one major problem in your life. Write it out step-by-step. Make an action plan about how you will tackle each of those points.
Slowly, as you begin to work on your problems, you will start to see that there is hope for a brighter tomorrow. You must believe that, otherwise, you will feel defeated before you even begin. To actualize the hope you feel, sit in a comfortable chair and close your eyes. Take your mind to a place that pleases you and begin to feel every one of your muscles begin to relax. Command each muscle to relax. Constrict and then relax each of your muscles.
Have a beautiful picture in your mind. Imagine you are a part of that beautiful picture now and imagine that as you work on your problems you will become that beautiful picture. Your life will become that beautiful picture. Sit and relax, deep breathing, seeing only that beautiful picture. See all of your most pressing problems resolved. See how you will work to resolve each of your problems. When you sit up from your relaxed state, write out how you will tackle the problems you have just imagined.
Now, go about doing what you have written one step at a time. The ability to relax, meditate, imagine and plan to resolve a problem is a proven stress buster. You can take control of each and every problem in your life that causes you undue stress.
By John Kirkham
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