Showing posts with label coping with stress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coping with stress. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

HOW TO GET YOUR ANGER UNDER CONTROL!

Get some space:
When you feel that a particular person is causing your anger, take a break from that person until your frustration alleviates a bit. Recompose yourself and face the person with little cool mind again. This break will help you to understand the anger causing factor and save you from regret.


Forgive, but don’t forget!
Resentment is a form of anger that does more damage to the holder than the offender. Making a decision to “let go” is a process that leads to forgiveness or at least acceptance. It is considered a major step toward anger control. If you can forgive the other person, it will help you both. It's unrealistic to expect everyone to behave exactly as you want


Use humor to release tensions or anger:
Lightening up is helpful to diffuse tension. But remember don’t confuse it with sarcasm because it can hurt feelings and make things worse. Use different mediums of humor to release your suppressed anger as well. It is important to get it out otherwise; it can deteriorate you physically as well as mentally. For example, a painter can release his anger through depicting it in his or her paintings.


Modify the conversation with yourself:
This anger control technique involves learning to recognize and change yours inner conversations. Learning to modify the “self-talk” empowers you to deal with anger more effectively. It will help you to understand how strongly you feel the anger, how long you hold onto your anger, and how you express your anger.











Wednesday, December 1, 2010

STRESS MANAGEMENT THROUGH DEEP BREATHING

Learning effective ways to relax may not be as easy as it sounds, but the logic is simple: Feeling stressed and being relaxed are not compatible responses. If one can become relaxed, the feeling of stress will be diminished.
There are many techniques that prove helpful in the removal of stress. Today I shall discuss  most effective and powerful way of Deep Breathing to check the stress. The importance of this technique is:
  • It’s easy to learn. No tactic is required.
  • It can be practiced almost everywhere.
  • This is a quick way to get rid of stress.


Requirement:
  • A few minutes
  • A place to stretch out


How to practice:
Remember! You have to breathe deeply from the abdomen and shallow breath from upper chest.
  1. Warm up yourself by shaking yourself and saying that you know how to control your stress and in few minutes, you will oust it.
  2. Sit comfortably with your back straight.
  3. Put one hand on your chest and other on your stomach.
  4. Now breathe in through your nose. The hand on your stomach should rise and the hand on chest moves little.
  5. Exhale through your mouth and push out as much air as you can while contracting your abdominal muscles. The Hand on your stomach should move in more than the other hand as you exhale.
  6. Continue to breathe in through your nose and out via your mouth. Try to inhale enough so that your lower abdomen rises and falls as well.
  7. Count slowly as you exhale.


Note: If it is hard to do this exercise while sitting up, try lying on the floor. You can put a small book on your stomach instead of your hand.
I am sure you will get benefit to know the actual and easy method of deep breathing. 
Try is must!






Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Turning Threat Into Challenge

There are bundles of techniques to cope with stress. To me , turning threat into challenge is most effective and result producing strategy.
A stressful situation might be controllable if we treat it as a challenge. When we take a challenge, we automatically focus on ways to control it and try to use our whole potential and energy. At the end, we win the battle against stress.
Yes! it works. You should try it to challenge me.


For instance, If you have a load of work at your office and you are under stress whether you can complete it or not in a given time frame. At this time, you should put aside all your confusions and apprehensions. Take your that day's work as a challenge.At the moment of taking it a challenge, you will find your mind as a razor sharp mind. There will be many more alternatives and ways to finish your assigned work in front of you. Choose the best and start work. Best Of Luck!
When you have finished, you will be surprised that your stress is no more. You are  fresh and relaxed now.  Great!







Sunday, November 7, 2010

Girls Are More Prone to Recurrence Of Depression

Research shows that girls are known to be more prone to initial depression than boys.


Causes:
  • It has to do with something in girls around the particular age that this is going on.
  • More stressful life events
  • It is important as well that the way and attitude , girls cope with stress.
  • It may be related to hormonal changes.
  • Girls tend to be brood more, so the slightest stress is multiplied many times.
Why are boys less prone to recurrence of depression?
It may happen that boys get more in trouble and feel sad, but when trouble goes away they feel better.
It is the whole attitude .







Saturday, November 6, 2010

STRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES

 Stress is described as a complex set of reactions made by an individual under pressure to adapt.
Stress is something that happens inside people. There are physiological reactions and unpleasant feelings (e.g distress and anxiety) associated with stress.


Types of stressors:
There are many circumstances and events that can produce stress. I shall describe three types of stressors.
  1. Frustration
  2. Conflict
  3. Life events
I shall discuss these stressors in detail some other post. But today i shall describe you how i remove my stress. It is a very simple technique but most effective.
  • Deep breath.
  • Keep your back straight.
  • Stretch your arms as much as you can.
  • Hold your head upside.
  • Close your eyes and see the most beautiful moment of your life.Live in that moment for 5 minutes at least. 
  • Open your eyes slowly.
I am sure you will be relaxed.












STRESS- GOOD OR BAD

Good stress can make you feel energized and motivated; whereas bad stress can rob you of your health and happiness.

Facing the Day
Positive Stress: By facing any situation with enough excitement to override fear, you can avoid negative stress.
Negative Stress: Occurs when a situation is faced with a mixture of dread, worry, and anxiety.

Tough Schedules
Positive Stress: Ensure that positive stress is a part of your routine by allowing your filled-to-the-brim schedule to contain several activities you find satisfying and look forward to doing.
Negative Stress: You're sure to experience negative stress if you have an overloaded schedule stuffed with obligations that you don’t enjoy and would not fulfill if you had a choice.

Commitments
Positive Stress: Sometimes it's tough to balance all of your commitments. The trick is to pick the right ones. Whether it's being a wife, husband, parent, president or valued employee, make sure that your commitment list contains things that you would never want to give up completely, even though you may feel overwhelmed.
Negative Stress: When you feel that your commitments are unimportant, unfulfilling, and not worth the effort, negative stress will occur as a result.

Setting Goals
Positive Stress: Working toward a valued goal and knowing that life will slow down once you achieve it. In this case, positive stress presents itself as motivation and drive to accomplish your set goals.
Negative Stress: Without a goal, people often feel out of control and overwhelmed with no end in sight and no help on the horizon.

Tackling Tasks
Positive Stress: By addressing tasks with positive stress, people tend to feel challenged, alert, and energetic - primed to tackle the task at hand, whatever it may be.
Negative Stress: Meanwhile, those who allow negative stress to dominate their lives often feel as though they want to crawl under the covers and stay there rather than take a stab at the task at hand.

Sleeping Patterns
Positive Stress: People who live their lives with positive stress tend to experience a good kind of tired; one which allows them to feel fulfilled enough to get a restful, deep sleep.
Negative Stress: Contrarily, people who experience too much negative stress often have restless sleeps, ulcers, back pain, or recurrent minor illnesses which simply add to their level of negative stress. A proper sleep pattern is extremely important for stress management.
Now that you have an understanding of the difference between good and bad stress, try to find the perfect balance in your life by becoming more aware of your reactions and behaviour on a daily basis.

EFFECTS OF STRESS-  TOXIC