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: get to know uncomplicated techniques to help you stop stress from making life so hard

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

Stress is basically a human condition, so there's no point presuming that you are somehow exempted from it effects. It's far safer to become conversant with the concept so that you really are you have got a satisfactory familiarity with how to manage it.

I advise you not to take this issue lightly, because if you do, Stress may impact you when you are least prepared.

Can relaxation or physical activity assist in managing 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.

You just keep finding that the cycle of stress keeps continuing, no matter how effective your strategies are. So you return to your stress decreasing activity to discover that the cycle goes on and on. I am positive you can recognize this cycle.

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

Don't get me wrong, I am certainly not in the least recommending that relaxing or soothing activities are not useful. As a matter of fact, I encourage individuals to use these strategies daily.

Unknowingly, for many, the mastermind behind any experience of toxic stress is our mind-set.

My solution for this issue is this: Adding methods that can help to modify our perception of situations around us to the use of the above mentioned strategies will produce a solid and more sustainable reduction of the of toxic stress.

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

Our perception can be really complicated.

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 can recall watching an image inside my mind of myself falling backwards, bumping my head and fainting. As a result of the image I hung on to nearly anything I could find for dear life.

Then it happened...

This young boy, came down the road skiing happily on the ice. His hands behind his back moving calmly and elegantly across the ice, one foot after the other 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.

At that particular point, my fear and concerns about dying from falling disappeared entirely. Ice skating was a skill I already owned. All I had to do was to employ this 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 will take a step back and re-assess those predicaments impartially, we might just accept that we do actually have the resources to manage the situations; it's just that the intense feelings triggered by stress had covered our decision making process.




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