STRESSING STRESS pt2

Deal with Stress: You Don’t Have Control over the Situation

Stop trying to control an uncontrollable situation. There are just some things that are unavoidable. If you do not have control over the stress situation, you adapt to the situation and accept it. If you cannot control it, why stress yourself further?

You can help yourself by

• Focusing on the overall picture and finding out how important it will be in future. If that situation won’t matter in a month’s time or a year put your energy elsewhere.
• Sharing with friends and loved ones. Talking about issue releases the tension we feel about them. Talk to a friend or loved one or if need be, seek professional help. See a therapist.
• Be positive; Thinking negative thoughts about yourself make your body react like it is in a tension filled situation. See good about yourself and you will feel good about yourself.
•  Go beyond having a being-in-charge approach. Take time to relax and have fun. Worry and sitting on the issue is not helping anyway, so why not create time and be at peace within you. You will invariably be in a better position to handle stressors when they present themselves.
•  Keeping your sense of humour helps reduce stress. Learn to laugh over issues and enjoy a joke with others from time to time. Watch a comedy.
• Go for a walk, spend time in nature

In addition to this, practise doing the following and you will increase your resistance to stress and strengthen your physical health

·         Practise having an exercise routine. It can be just twice a week for 30 minutes each, be with it. Physical activity helps in reducing and preventing the effects of stress. Nothing beats aerobic exercise for releasing pent-up stress and tension.

·         Practice eating healthy. When your body is well nourished, you are better prepared to cope. Do not skip breakfast, it keeps your energy up and your mind clear and balanced to start off the day balanced.

·         Practice abstinence from caffeine and sugar. The intake of these gives the body a fake ‘high’ which is temporary in the least and usually ends up with a crash in the individual’s mood and energy. Reduce intake of coffee, soft drinks, chocolate, and sugar snacks and you will find that you feel more relaxed.

·         Practice sleeping well. Sleep fuels your mind and body. You get easily stressed when you are tired.

There is nothing cool about being stressed up. Do not allow yourself get to that position where you feeling helmed in and worked up. Here is what stress does to you: increases inability to carry on effectively in your daily activity, impairs your immune system and increases health problems and make you more prone to coronary heart diseases, impairs your judgements and decreases your sense of wellbeing and life’s satisfaction.

We have no super-humans, everybody was made differently. Knowing how to position yourself, when adapt and knowing what is best for you make the difference. When you understand this, you will enjoy life without stress.

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