Stress, how to help reduce it.

Coping with stress can be easier than you think. Here are some tools

Monthly Maintenance

Our lives all have stress in it at some point, he most important thing with stress is to actually recognise it. Then to do something about it as it can build from one week to the next.

Stress can come in different forms, Emotional;

• Being easily agitated, frustrated and moody, needing to take control

• Finding it difficult to quieting your mind

Physical:

• Feel run down and low in energy

• Headaches

• Upset stomach, including diarrhoea, constipation, and nausea

• Aches, pains, and tense muscles

• Insomnia

• Clenched jaw and grinding teeth[i]

How do you manage stress?

Finding activities that take your mind to another place, exercise, reading, or the movies etc. This lets you focus on something completely different and away from what is dominating your thoughts and creating the stress.   HIT THE RESET BUTTON.  

Meditation

Meditation is one of the ways, sitting and emptying the mind and thinking of nothing, a blank thought process, improving your sleep, and getting support [i] Meditation can be as simple as a walk where the mind is engaged in the surroundings, trees, birds, or cooking, jigsaw puzzle. Swimming where you focus just on swimming as water is great for washing your cares away, get the blood flowing and just remove everything from my mind.

Want my advice?

Find time for you, a Monthly Maintenance – it doesn’t matter what it is you are doing, just make sure you are not thinking of your stresses, LIVE IN THE MOMENT.

References:

​[ii] https://www.webmd.boots.com/stress-management/physical-stress-symptoms

[iii] http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/manage-stress.aspx