Stress comes from many areas of life, and stress relief comes in many forms. While some people like using one favourite tool for stress relief, many experts feel that the most efficient approach to stress relief is one that attacks stress from several different directions, utilising an overall ‘plan of attack’ for stress relief.
An important first step in this stress relief plan is to have one or two quick stress relief strategies that can help you relax your physiology or de-stress your mind, to reverse your body’s stress response so that you can think clearly and avoid the negative effects of chronic stress.
The following are some quick and effective stress relief strategies that can help you do just that: these stress relief activities, once mastered, should enable you to de-stress in under 5 minutes so that you can move on to the next steps in your stress relief strategy or immediately face the stressors at hand.
Here are several strategies to try:
Breathing Exercises: Stress Relief Breathing is one of the most popular ways of calming down quickly for good reason: breathing exercises can be done by anyone, at any time, with little training, and at no expense! Breathing exercises can also be combined with other stress relief techniques (such as guided imagery or meditation) for added benefits and ease of use.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR): PMR is a technique you can learn that, with practice, enables you to completely relax all of the muscles in your body quickly, thereby releasing tension from stress. Like each of the techniques that are mentioned, PMR helps you to reverse your body’s stress response quickly. It can also be done at virtually any time or place, once you’ve learned the technique and practiced it. (It’s especially useful for when you’re trying to get to sleep)
Mini-Meditation: Meditation is gaining status as a stress management mainstay because it brings so many wonderful benefits, including (after consistent practice) resilience against future stressors! Many people shy away from learning meditation because they think they don’t have the ability to learn the technique or the time to practice regularly. Actually, meditation can be very simple to learn, and even 5 minutes of meditation can make a difference. Learn more about the benefits of meditation and how to practice it from DTR.
Have a Good Laugh: Maintaining a sense of humour can relieve stress in several ways. First, there are specific benefits that you get from laughter that can help you relieve stress and even stay healthier in your life. Also, laughter connects people, and social support is good for stress relief. More, it’s hard to stay stressed when you’re laughing. And maintaining a sense of humour reminds us that our stressors may not be as menacing as they seem, and probably have solutions, too. For these reasons, laughing in the face of stress can help you feel better in a matter of minutes.
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