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Thursday, November 5, 2009

5 Effective Life Stress Busters To Manage Stress

Posted by patrick

By Johnson Star

Getting burned out because of all the pressures you are dealing with every day? Maybe you're not managing them properly or not handling them at all. In order to perform all your daily duties effectively you will need to take care of all the stresses that may get thrown in your direction. Here are five effective life stress management tips that will surely lift yours spirits up when you are starting to feel stress drag your feet through the ground.

First tip would be to change the way that you think. Changing your attitude towards how you perceive and think about things that you consider threats will create a big impact on your coping and dealing skills. This tip is probably the most important and most difficult to master because you will be basically developing a new habit that is specifically designed to help you with stress.

Making time for yourself is more important than you think. Not with other people, not with friends, not even with loved ones, just you. Spending time alone by yourself will allow you to regain focus and re-energize your mind and body at the same time.

Another way to fight stress is exercise. It does not matter which exercise you want to do, need to do, or whichever you find comfortable and easy. Just pick something and stick to it. During exercising, your body releases hormones that almost immediately make you feel relaxed.

Expand your social support network. Humans are social beings. It is always comforting if there's someone around that will tell you everything's going to be okay, and tries to make you smile. Reach out to important people. Stay in touch with them. Help them in times of need. Show them that they are important to you, and they will be less likely to leave you when you need them most.

The last, but not the least, tip is realization. Understand that there are some things in life that just cannot be resolved, or sometimes, cannot be solved by you. It's a waste of ammunition if you're firing on something on the other side of the bulletproof glass. The more you dwell on one problem; you lose time and other things pileup on you - creating stress.

Some people say that life is not fair. It has never been. But there are people that look at things from another angle, and they take it fairly well. There will always be problems in life. It is a requirement to handle them while we go on living. Without proper knowledge and technique in stress management, we are all more likely to break down.

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