How to manage stress

By Adeleke Ademuyiwa


Manage the root causes of stress and abandon all of those methods that work only to hide its negative effects.

Stop existing and begin to live: fully understand different techniques to guide you to obstruct stress from making life so difficult

Believe me, wrestling with stress will become a lot simpler when you finally fully figure out the principles it possesses.

Every single one is affected in one way or another, so it is crucial that we all have a properly informed awareness of exactly what it is, how it operates plus how to influence 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 workout assist in controlling stress?

It has primarily been acknowledged that activities like relaxation, exercise, massage etc. can reduce intensity of your stress. If you do in fact struggle with frequent elevated levels of stress however, it's very likely that you have asked yourself precisely why these stress decreasing activities don t succeed in keeping your low levels of stress.

More or less like a yoyo, you go to the gym or adopt relaxation tactics just to realize that the levels of stress soon starts to seep up vertically once again. So you return to your stress decreasing activity to discover that the cycle goes on and on. In case you struggle with stress, I'm absolutely sure you recognize what I am sharing.

Our perspective on things, Impacts heavily on our efficacy at handling stress.

Don't get me wrong, I am certainly not in any respect suggesting that relaxing or consoling activities won't be useful. As a matter of fact, I encourage people to use these strategies daily.

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

My suggested resolution of this problem is this. Use relaxing and calming strategies, but use them in connection with tactics that assist to re-structure way in which you generally interpret things.

Improving your capacity to see things differently (seeing the bigger picture) might help you manage stress better.

The way wee see things can add a variety of complexities to coping.

I remember one frozen December as I was walking from my vehicle going to my office. It had just snowed, so the road was covered in threatening slippery ice. I found myself just about slipping with every step.

I recall seeing a flashing image of myself, in my mind, plummeting and smacking my head on a stone. Due to this, I held on the a tree for my life.

Then the most amazing thing happened...

I noticed this kid who was probably17 years old skiing on top of the ice. His hands behind his back moving calmly and elegantly across the ice, one foot after another 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 that manner. What was interesting with this given situation was that I knew how to Ice skate and I've been to the ice ring on many occasion. So I made a decision to copy the boy.

As soon as I made this decision, the icy, threatening road became a harmless puppy. Ice skating was obviously a skill I already owned. All it took was for me to grasp this and apply the skill.

This small tale gives a powerful perspective into how to work with stress better. You see, the manner in which we deal with any difficult scenarios we are threatened by is fully decided by how vulnerable we feel towards those situations and our impressions of just how well equipped we are to handle the situations.

If we can take a step back and re-assess those circumstances objectively, we might just realise that we do actually have the assets to cope with the situations; it's only that the intense emotions initiated by stress had shrouded our decision making process.




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