Stressed Living - Subtle Changes for Big Relief

In other words, we feel stressed when something happens that is completely out of our control. Our attempts to manage that stress have created an industry abundant with positive thinking, yoga exercises, and cognitive counselling.

As far as the actual techniques and suggestions for managing stress, there are all sorts of recommendations and exercises and these can be found through just about every advertising medium we have. Just googling stress management will provide a plethora of websites offering encouragement for how to live stress-free. Most offer cognitive advice; thought control techniques that range from imagery or finding your happy place to management of expectations learning to successfully cope with the notification that you will be working the night shift instead of having dinner with the family.

Physical exercise is another highly recommended avenue for reducing the effects of stress. From jogging to yoga, exercise has been a proven outlet for much of the emotional baggage we carry including anger, frustration with work, and family problems.

Although websites, magazines, and book clubs are quick to sell you advice for proper cognitive therapy to help cure stress, simple lifestyle changes could also greatly reduce the effects and at much less cost. Recommended changes include getting more sleep, reducing caffeine intake, and hydrating regularly. Although there are numerous health benefits to drinking a cup of coffee every morning lowered risk of Alzheimers, healthier liver, etc. reducing stress is not one of them. Coffee is technically a drug and the stimulants in it cause a stress reaction in the body, and this is what gives us our a boost every morning.

Getting a better nights sleep is one of the fundamental changes that will help reduce the effects of stress. Unfortunately, there are about as many self-help books with recommendations on getting better sleep as there are book about stress management. The good news is that the techniques that will greatly improve a nights sleep will also greatly improve a persons relationship with stress.

Nightly techniques such as drinking tea, taking a hot bath, or reading a relaxing novel will not only help you to sleep like a baby night in and night out, it will also help reduce the daily stresses that plague so many people. Finally, a healthy diet coupled with regular hydration will all help the body to function smoothly, which makes it easier for us to deal with stress.

Between traffic lights, flat tyres, and stains on white T-shirts, we find stress in just about every aspect of life. Although expensive cognitive therapy and intense breathing exercises have been proven to reduce the effects of stress, subtle lifestyle changes can also help us to live more stress free, and at a fee that is much easier on the pocket.

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Richard Reid of Pinnacle Proactive, Specialists in the Employee Assistance Program, Stress Management, Staff Retention & Absenteeism. Take a Proactive Approach in Growing Your Organisation

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