Various ways you can reduce stress

 

Modern life can come with a lot of pressure on our schedules, which in turn increases our stress levels.

Unmanaged stress can have a serious impact on your mental and physical activity as a functioning individual. Managing Stress is perhaps one of the most important things an individual can learn to manage.

Here are some tips to manage your stress.

1) Talk About Your Problems

The popular saying 'the problem shared is a problem halved' is perhaps an honest phrase. Learn to talk about your problems with people in your surroundings,  this will lessen the burden of stress that you'd face if you didn't tell anybody.

If you don't have anybody to share your problems and in turn stress with, use the internet. Join a community, a group or a subreddit where people share their problems to lessen their stress levels.
If you don't have stable internet or don't have time to do be online, write down your thoughts in a diary.

Talking about your feelings helps you maintain your mental health and deal with unpleasant times. Talking about your feelings is not a sign of weakness. Part of that is taking care of your well-being and doing everything you can to stay healthy.

If nothing works out, it's always best to pay vista to a therapist, they will talk with you and probably have one or more solutions to manage your stress.

2) Slow Down

In our modern lives, we unintentionally complicate our lives, don't do this!.
Keep things simple and easy, and take things at your own pace which is what will help you to slow down.

Meanwhile, start with a thing of your liking and change it into a hobby. This will certainly calm your brain.

Taking a break keeps your brain and body energized, Maintaining a grind may seem fruitful, but it can negatively impact your long-term performance and sanity.

3) Excercise

Study after study has shown that regular exercise has multiple positive benefits like regulating mood and increasing your self-confidence.

Exercise has an excellent impact on your sleep, which is often disturbed by high-stress levels. With conventional exercises start doing meditation or breathing exercises. These two will help you find a group of individuals who likely face the same issues as you and you are more

Regular physical activity can improve muscle strength and increase endurance. Exercise supplies the tissues with oxygen and nutrients, helping the cardiovascular system of your body to function more efficiently. And when your heart and lungs overall health improves, you will have more energy to get your daily work done likely.

Apart from losing weight or getting back in shape, excericse helps improve your lifestyle. Through exercise, one's lifestyle automatically include commitment and stamina, two attributes that are necessary for a good and healthy life.

4) Eat a Healthy Diet

Diet has a deep impact on our brains and bodies. Healthy food can improve the state of our minds and bodies whereas unhealthy food can negatively impact our minds and bodies.

Lowering the intake of highly processed foods like carbonated drink, fizzy sodas, fast food like pizza & burgers, bakery items can have a immediate positive impact on you're overall stress levels.

Greens along with other vegetables are shown to be better for improving one's stress level. Researchers say that eating a 'balance diet' will have a positive impact on your stress levels.

Taking in healthy diet can have a positive impact on one's immune system as it helps in repairment of damaged cells. Healthy Diet also helps energy required to deal with stressful events.

If nothing works, visit a professional, certified nutritionist who can recommend and change your diet plan accordingly.

Giving it time is also important, you won't get fit in a day or a month by following a healthy diet plan for a week or a month. Atleast give it a year or two and you'll begin to see the difference.

5) Regulate Your Time Spent On Social Media

Social Media and excessive time spent on mobile phones can negatively impact human brains. They cause high anxiety and a fake sense of self, which we know is not there in the real world.

Frequent use of social media can increase feelings of inadequacy, dissatisfaction, and isolation,that can result in anxiety or stress.These emotions, in turn, adversely affect mood and exacerbate the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress.

However, the use of social media has a overwhelming negative impact on  teens. These negative impacts include distracting teens form their study and family duties, disturbing sleep, bullying, spreading rumors, unrealistic views of other people's lives, and having false sense of friendship. Risk increases with usage of social media used by teens and young people.

Regulate how much time you spent on social media, and keep in check what kind of content you are interacting with, keep your circle small.


6) Set Practical Goals And Reward Yourself For Sucess

Creating practical goals for yourself is important if you want to keep your stress levels under check, this is because goals  also cause stress. Failure to reach the goals that you have set creates excessive pressure and make you feel even more stressful . This is especially true if your goals are unrealistically high or if you have no feasible plans.

Create a timetable,  work out and talk about your goals, this will create a positive feedback loop. Once you've reached your goal, reward yourself for putting in the hard work.

Even if you if fail or couldn't achieve the desired result, be proud of your own effort.
This will make you more courageous and self motivated next time, this will also boost your confidence and low self esteem. This will also help you focus more on the positives rather than cribbing about the negatives.

Setting up goal creates a structure that allows you to visualize your own success and that mitigates stress. By laying out the blueprints for your future, you allow yourself tighter control and thus eliminate stress throughout the process.