More times than not stress tends to sneak up on us.It can hide and then jump out at you when you least expect it; it happens in men, women, children and everyone else. Stress will eventually affect you no matter what.It can be a friend or it can be a foe. The choice is yours.
If you allow stress to take over your life you will suffer physically. Doctors report that between 75 and 90 of patients they see have stress as a contributing factor to illness.
It does not necessarily have to be that particular way. You can turn stress into serenity by following any of these three successful stress management methods: (1) Control the meaning you assign to the stress; (2) Change the situation that produces the stress, and (3) Control the effects that stress has on your body.
Adjust Your Attitude To Change Your Perspective
If worry is a major stressor in your life or you are frustrated that others behave poorly or without your sense of morality, your stress derives mainly from how you interpret the world. In order to best address this type of stress we need to look at stress management psychology.
The issue of stress management that would pertain to this is that your thoughts cause the stress, not the specific situation. Write down your stress-inducing thoughts when they happen.Relate your situation to the people involved.You must realize that thoughts will determine your feelings. If you control your thoughts, you control feelings.Don't change your opinion, try to adjust the way you think about you opinion. Once you embrace this concept, this stress management method will become second nature to you.
Change The Situation
If your present situation is at the heart of your stress and damaging your sense of control and self esteem and you know you have to make a change, then you may choose to use a different stress management method.
By defining the problem first, you will be able to change your situation. Once you have defined the problem, and then brainstorm ideas to change it while listing the risks and rewards of each idea.If nothing comes to mind, leave it alone for a couple days and come back and think about it later. Every stress management method takes time.
Control The Effects
If the safety valve for your stress is physical, for instance, you experience a lot of colds and headaches, or experience high blood pressure or asthma, that is your body's way of saying that you’ve had enough. If you are physically stressed, then you need a physical stress management solution.Plenty of sleep, eating healthy foods, exercise frequently and get rid of your caffeine, alcohol, and sugar intake.
When we incorporate both the mind and the body in our stress management methods, we increase our ability to balance stress.
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