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Ways to De-Stress Your Mind and Body | 22nd August, 2017

Some stress is healthy … it kicks in to protect you in times of need and gives you a sense of focus when you are about to take a test or give a presentation. It motivates you to rise to the occasion. And in times of emergency, stress can actually save your life.

 
Then there is the type of stress that is harmful. It can cause physical, mental, and emotional aches and pains. It can cause your body and mind to overreact to situations, resulting in digestive problems, weight fluctuation, heart disease, depression, and a host of other issues that no one desires or deserves.
 
Identify Your Stress Triggers
Recognizing the triggers to your stressful reactions is an important first step in managing your stress. True, it might be impossible to remove lifes stresses, but understanding the things that stress you out—and in what ways—is particularly helpful in solving the underlying problems.
 
Identify Your Stress Triggers
Recognizing the triggers to your stressful reactions is an important first step in managing your stress. True, it might be impossible to remove lifes stresses, but understanding the things that stress you out—and in what ways—is particularly helpful in solving the underlying problems.
 
What stresses you out? And how do you react to it? There are a host of physical and mental reactions to stress, and everyone reacts differently. Understanding how it manifests in your life is the first step to finding balance.
 
Get Some Exercise
Moving your body is important to combat stressful reactions, and prevent them from arising in the future. When you keep your body in peak condition, you feel lighter and more energized, leaving you prepared to manage lifes stresses.
 
No matter what your fitness level may be, the central key is simply to move your body every day. Identifying the type or types of exercise that you most enjoy—and those best suited to your mind-body type.
 
Find Stillness Every Day
Meditation is one of the best tools you have to counteract stress, and your brains bias to hold onto negativity.
 
In meditation, your body actually releases stress and reverses the effects of the flight-or-fight response. This response was really intended to be a short-term mechanism to protect you from perceived danger, which rarely comes in handy nowadays. And the stress generated within you from the response can be harmful to your health.
 
Eat Well
Nourishing your body with the right food will give you the energy you need to tackle what life brings you, including stress.
 
Every body has different nutritional requirements, and Ayurveda teaches us that dietary plan should be based on an understanding of your unique mind-body type, or dosha. If you are stressed out, what you are eating is a great thing to look at, as different doshas are triggered by different foods. It is important to make conscious eating choices with your unique dosha in mind.
 
Sleep to Combat Stress
Restful sleep is an essential key to staying healthy and strong. When you are well-rested, you can approach stressful situations more calmly, yet sleep is so often neglected or underemphasized.
 
The key is making sure you are not only getting enough sleep, but that the quality of sleep you are getting is restful and restorative.
 
Hit the Road
Taking annual vacations is really good for you. Ask your doctor: it appears that going on vacation may not be an icing-on-the-cake type of indulgence—it may actually be necessary for good health.
 
But multi-week, exotic getaways are not always an option with the many responsibilities that come with life. Whether you have the time and money to head out on a European tour, or can simply afford a long weekend that is close to home, yet away from the grind, planning a break is a great tool for reducing stress. 
 
Create a Gratitude Practice
Gratitude is a powerful force that you can use to expand your happiness, improve your health, and—you guessed it—helps you cope with stress.
 
Create Cushions in Your Calendar
If you are reading this, you probably have a busy schedule, which is one contributor to stress. When you have a lot on your plate, you end up hurrying through the day and multitasking, which will only exacerbate stress levels.
 
Your Health Is Our Concern!
 
Mawuena Workartey/ Ghanahospitals.org

     
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