Stress Management by Anubha

As we see many people talk about stress and stressors in day to day life and how this stress makes their life more worse and vulnerable. Doctors also say that most of the disease turns more severe just in case of high stress.

So what causes stress and for what reason we experience it.

Stress is emotional and physical response to any situation which seems difficult to us but

You will be surprised with the fact that we need a bit of stress in our life to be more proficient and productive and that is called eustress. It is required to have eustress to engage in optimum level of performance, but as soon as the stress level increases beyond eustress we mention it as distress i.e., a harmful amount of stress which can deteriorate our overall life functioning which include socio-occupational activities and interpersonal relationships.

As we understand what stress is and how much it is affecting our life, let’s see some Stress Management Techniques through which we can tackle stress and improve our life.

1- Deep Breathing

The first thing we can do whenever we like stressful or anxious and inhaling deeper and exhaling it out for a longer time, deep breathing is the first and foremost step we can take to stop and wait and focus on the vital function other than focusing on stressful situations.

2- Relaxation training

Relaxation training can be done with the help of a trainer like JPMR, Autogenic Relaxation training, etc the first one is mainly focused on physical aspect of relaxation and the second one is focuses on mental aspect of relaxation, other than going to trainer one can also train themselves at home by using some simple relaxation techniques like diaphragmatic breathing, Mindfulness breathing etc which is somewhat a amalgamation of breathing and relaxation technique.

3- Pursuing Hobby

As we all see in today’s world everyone is running over competitiveness, ambitions, perfection and accomplishment and we forget how much happiness, contentment and peace those little things used to give us when we don’t look around the world as a battle place. We need to pause for a while to appreciate little things around us to pursue our Hobbies and to make peace with our soul.

4- Meditation

Can you answer!  In the entire world who is most important to you? Dear it’s you! Give yourself time to meditate, think some good things while meditating, feel pleasant and Start your morning with positivity and Focus. Rather than just checking your phones, laptops, e-mails, etc.  

Start your day with yourself and end your day with yourself. According to my personal experience there is not any right or wrong way to meditate, it’s just start with your own ease, find the right one and start practicing it daily, You will see the change and you will see the miracles it does to your mind and body.

5- Mindfulness training

Above this we talked about mediation and all so let’s go to a more wider aspect of life, that is mindfulness. Meditation is giving some time to yourself to be in some calm and peaceful state for sometimes so that you can be fully charged throughout the day. Here mindfulness is living each and every moment fully and completely, not wandering in future nor dwelling in past, it means just living in present. 

For example if we drink water we should fully focus on quenching our thirst at the very moment, if we are sleeping we should fully focus on relaxing our mind and body, if we are studying we should focus on only what we are doing right now. Mindfulness simply means living at present and feeling it all. And this Simply makes your life so calm and Soothing if we start understanding the meaning of it.