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Manage Your Stress Like A Pro

Oct 19

Posted by mreed in Health, Mental Health | No Comments

ScreamingWe all have stress in our lives and how we deal with it will have an affect on our outlook on life and on our long term health prospects. In order to help your body cope with stress, it’s important to eat healthy meals and drink sensibly. Many people turn to alcohol and food abuse in order to try to reduce stress. This can have an opposite effect, increasing the amount of stress the person is under. A better practice is to take up relaxation techniques and perform solo exercising. Swimming would be a good exercise to relieve stress.

Follow your values, be true to yourself. You don’t need to live by others values and expectations and it’s okay to tell someone ‘no’ in a respectful manner. Set yourself realistic goals and expectations and forgive yourself if you fall a little short; just use that as a starting point to continue reaching for your goal. If you’re feeling bad about yourself, give yourself a pep talk. Remind yourself about your successes. Take control of what you can and accept what you can’t.

If you have unhealthful habits, work to remove them from your day to day life. Things such as smoking can not only negatively affect your long term health, they can also build on your stress.

Remember, you can only do the best you can do, if there are too many demands on you and you can’t possibly fulfill them all, do the best you can do and accept you can’t do the rest. This means asking for help when appropriate and saying ‘no’ when you have to.

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Stress Relief Tips

Aug 3

Posted by James in Health Tips | No Comments

stressAlmost every ailment known to mankind is affected in one way or another due to the presence of stress, usually detrimental. While knowing that a high stress level is not good for your general state of health and can make other conditions worsen, knowing ways to effectively reduce stress can often be elusive. we live in a fast moving culture, but if you take few minutes and reflect on the following tips, finding breathing room and lower blood pressure can be simplified greatly.

Proper breathing control. Of course you have heard the saying “take a deep breath.” Getting Oxygen into the lungs in adequate amounts physically reduces stress on the body as well as feeds the mental capability needed to deal with processing efficiency. Thoughts can become clearer and oxygen to the muscles can bring relaxation to the body, allowing you to relax. Learning to control your breathing can also come in handy if you happen to react to stress in a vascular manner. Taking a few deep breaths can make all the difference between an inconvenience and a panic attack.

Emotional issues and conflict continuance is a common stress factor. Unresolved emotional tensions whether in the home or career centered are often causes of high stress, and if not dealt with can lead to more serious mental and physical health issues ranging from increased risk of heart disease to suicide. Keeping healthy social relationships and allowing yourself creative expression are also great stress reducers. Happy people are not heavily affected by stress and happy people are those with healthy mental outlooks and habits.

Create change. Sometimes a simple change of scenery, pattern of behavior, or just a night on the town is needed to get you out of a stressful rut. The day to day drag of never-ending responsibility without a change can lead to minor depression and leave you with a feeling of frustration that is likely to physiologically stressful. Variety is the spice of life, and if we enjoy life, even if stress is still present, it is less likely to grip us than if we are in stupor of dissatisfaction.

While these tips might not seem like the cutting edge of health science, they are proven, effective, and simple to follow. Who needs something else complicated to stress over? Take a walk in the park, or curl up with a good book instead of watching television for a change. It is sometimes the little things that make the biggest difference.

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Make Healthy Choices Everyday

Jul 6

Posted by mreed in Health, Health Tips | No Comments

healthy choicesHealth isn’t just about your diet, it isn’t even just about diet and exercise, it’s about anything and everything you do in your day to day life, it’s about how you interact with people, how you deal with problems, how you handle stress, etc. All of these things impact your health.

The medical community has come up with all sorts of drugs to help with all sorts of day to day issues. There are drugs for depression, drugs for sleepiness, drugs for lack of sleepiness, drugs for the overly stressed, etc. In other words, in the estimation of the medical community, there is a chemical based drug for every possible scenario a person could face. But is this the healthy solution?

When your scared, your body defense system fills you with adrenaline making you more quickly able to respond with the flight or fight instinct you are born with. So when your alarm goes off in the morning, startling you awake, the first thing that happens is your body is filled with adrenaline and you begin your day with an already stressed biological system. Try setting your alarm earlier and have it go on with music. There are alarms that get progressively louder as they play, this would be infinitely more desirable, as they wake you slowly and without stress. When you get up, open your window or at least your curtains or shades. Sunlight is good for the body and soul when you first wake up, it pushes you even more towards a fully awake state.

Once you’re awake, try taking a walk, maybe around your back yard, or if you are dressed take a walk around the block, get your blood moving and warm your body up before you start your day. This also reduces the shock your body suffers when going from the sleep state to fully awake and out the door.

Once you’re up and moving and your blood is flowing, have a good sensible breakfast, try to get some of your fruit requirements in on your morning meal, have some eggs, etc. Don’t overstuff yourself, eat slow so your body knows how full it is. Stop eating when you’re not hungry, don’t eat until your stomach is totally full. This will make you lethargic and ready to go back to bed.

Once your at work, you can relieve the stress on both your body and your mind by getting up and moving around a bit, look out a window, go outside for a break, at least change positions in your chair. Your body isn’t meant to stay in the same position for hours on end. To do so stresses it and to do it daily will eventually cause health problems. Going outside is great for releasing stress. Being in the sun and the fresh air, taking deep breaths and walking a bit will reset your body, make you feel refreshed and better able to deal with the stresses of the rest of the day.

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