It is a known fact that stress is an inescapable reality which is part of a human life. Stress as recently proven can be a major cause of many dangerous diseases and health complications. So stress has to be dealt with accordingly. There are many ways in which to deal stress and some of them are experimentally proven. So here are some really good tips which some of them are medically proven on how to deal with stress.
1) Get well acquainted with yourself and love yourself:- This step is actually the first stepping stone for dealing with a lot of problems. Stress may arise or worsen if one is not well acquainted with oneself and deal with the feelings and emotions that may arise to the extent that best fits one.
2) Always try to look at the positive side of things:- Being optimistic has great advantages in dealing with stress. If one makes a habit of looking at the positive side of things rather than the negative, it has been proven that it would reduce the amount of stress that one may experience in the short and long term as well.
3) Confront and solve challenges and problems accordingly and logically:- In order not to be engulfed in problems and them lead to inevitable stress, one has to always confront, deal and solve problems and challenges that life puts out accordingly, by the time limit that they need to be dealt with and logically. One should not disregard the word 'logically'. If problems and challenges are not dealt logically then it would be like trying to walk in the dark just by feeling the things around.
4) Let go of the things that you can not control:- One needs to learn that it is stupid not to let go of things that one can not control. Of course it is good to give a good try to all things but if it is a situation that one definitely can not control, then the answer that one is looking for is already there. That is to just let go. If not one would be engulfed with uncontrollable and unmanageable stress until one learns to let go.
5) Get enough sleep:- Even though one does not have problems in one's life, not getting enough sleep stresses the mind because the mind is not getting enough rest to regenerate itself. Stress can sometimes be a direct result of not getting enough sleep. So in order to have an enjoyable and stress free life one needs to get enough sleep.
6) Eat right and exercise regularly:- Eating right and exercising regularly are among the great tools in reducing stress both for long and short term results. If we look at the short term results, if one overeats or does not eat enough, the body itself would be in stress and it would be impossible not to feel stressed, lazy and agitated in those situations. When one exercises, there will be an increase of blood flow in the body then as we may have all experienced, there is a feeling of great ease and relaxation afterwards. To look at the long term results, both eating right and exercising regularly help in generating and maintaining a healthy body and mind thus a more relaxed, stress free state of being.
7) Make and maintain good friends:- We as humans are social animals and just the reality of having someone to talk to reduces stress significantly. Having good friends certainly eases the stress that may be experienced by anyone in many ways. One can go out and have fun with friends which certainly is a lot more enjoyable than doing it alone. The other benefit that one may have of having friends to reduce stress is, one can go and talk to a good friend that one can trust about troubling issues and may find support for the problems and comfort by sharing it with someone else instead of keeping it to self and facing it alone.
8) Be an environment suitable for you:- If one wants to get rid of stress one has to get rid of the stress triggers. If the environment that one lives in is stress triggering for that particular person, that person has to change the environment in order to lesson the amount of stress.
9) Meditate and do yoga:- Meditation and yoga have been proven as one of the greatest and most effective agents in reducing stress and improving physical and mental health as a whole.
10) Have a distant relationship with your thoughts:- One of the major agents of stress if not the major is thought. We may thing that we are in control of our thoughts. But one may be in for a surprise if one tries to stop thinking. Being overwhelmed and drowned by our thoughts is one of the major if not the major agent of stress.
So what one has to do is try to control one's thoughts. But that is not as easy as it sounds and infact is impossible.
One of the most effective ways of having some kind of control over our thoughts is instead of trying to stop thinking, one could just disassociate and observe thoughts without judging them, trying to stop or control them or trying to add any thought over them and just observe them as they come and go. This would legitimately give a separate entity of one from thought. This is a very effective way of reducing stress significantly.
11) Make a habit of being in the now:- Being in the now whenever one doesn't have to think or make agendas helps a lot in relaxing one's mind and enjoying anything that life throws at one. Making a time for such a practice helps in the short term and especially in the long run.
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