Stress is not just an annoying and continuing problem across the world, but stress is a problem that is increasingly becoming a modern day nightmare for health care and day to day living. In regard to our discussion here on how to destress your life we must acknowledge the pressing factors that burden our life in innumerable ways. You just cannot think of leading a stress free life in today's time without being hard pressed to find various ways and methods to relieve your Stress. From regular exercise to Yoga, Meditation and breathing techniques to maintaining a happy and reciprocating family life to finding peace and solace in some relaxing and sense calming activities there are innumerable ways to destress your life among which we would provide here a few.
Daily routine and discipline
In life everything has its specific time and if you can maintain systematic as well as routine life and discipline all your activities accordingly you can destress your life more easily and to your surprise without following much of the processes of stress relieving. Just break up your day in hourly or timely manner for several different priorities and responsibilities across your personal as well as professional life and this routine and discipline would calm your mind as every priority or at least most of them would be met in timely fashion. Moreover, finishing many of the regular jobs and responsibilities in timely fashion you would have enough personal time to spend on your own priorities and though in the beginning you would rather feel to maintain such routine as troublesome, in the long run this would pay you with immense benefits.
Don't carry the office to your home or everywhere
Workplace is the greatest source of Stress for a majority of people all over the world and you cannot expect to destress your life with office and professional concerns following everywhere as you go. So in relation to relieving Stress from your life most important of all is to leave professional concerns as soon as you leave your office and enjoy or involve in other activities as you come to home or go elsewhere.
Resolve issues at home
You are actually divided in two parts if your family is not with you and in regard to managing stress in life the cooperation within the family and bond is most important of all. So to destress your life and to lead a relaxed as well as easy going life maintain utmost cordiality with the family and if there are issues that hinders you to communicate them in an easy and frank manner take initiative to resolve them as quickly and as amicably as possible. Remember a happy family and relationship is your backbone in leading a Stress free life.
Balance between physical relaxation and exercise
Physical relaxation though for prompt effect is good to relax and pacify your mind, in overabundance of physical relaxation it can equally be harmful to cause enough Stress and mental strain. Our mind tends to be thoughtful or involve in any type of concern in every point of time and more you get physically relaxed more your nerves tend to find something as its food for thought or occupation, especially in activity driven day time our mind is almost trained to become occupied with mental concerns and thus if you are not proactively relaxed to strike a balance between physical work and relaxation you can as well become a victim of Stress. Similarly in exhausting physical exercises to undertake frequently your tend to become too much strained and nervous and this can really become burdensome for making you stressed and this is the reason why with physically exhausting activities rest and relaxation are considered as necessary antidotes.
Balanced and nutritious diet
Food and drinking habit constitute the crucial area that is also one of the deciding factors in relation to our notion of stress management. There are foods that can provide balanced nutritional ingredients to health and thereby makes way for an inner organic harmony for better nervous function and other cool and pacifying effects on mind. Regular intake of vitamin and mineral and antioxidant rich food stuff works best as far as pacifying effects on mind is concerned. Similarly some drinks like herbal tea, fruit juices rich in vitamins and antioxidant can really be beneficial to destress your life and invigorating the senses and organic functions.
Fewer intakes of caffeine and nicotine
Many a people admit publicly and without the slightest hesitation on their parts that they just cannot quit smoking and cannot quit the habit of drinking coffee and for them our advice is to decrease the intake of both. But most preferable solution to destress your life is to completely get rid of these harmful stimulants, especially nicotine in any form, either through smoking, chewing tobaccos or other ways. Tobacco in all its various avatars amounts to greatest range of health threats including derogatory mental effects like stress and depression.
Yoga and meditation
For centuries Yoga and Meditation is considered as the greatest healing ways to relieve stress and numerous other health complications. Yoga pacifies the mind and invigorates the organic functions and thus strikes the truly important balance between physical activity and mental peace. Meditation on the other hand pacifies the nervous functions, sooth the senses, calms the mind and enhances concentration and other mental faculties. Thus through Yoga and Meditation all aspects of stress and mental strain are addressed conclusively.
Prayer
Prayer as described by many ancient texts is the ultimate solace for individuals irrespective of cast, creed, religion and social status. In prayer you experience the submission of your senses and urges and whatever be your object of prayer, doing this with utmost sincerity you can come very close to experiencing relief from your mental tension, agony and all types mental tumult and so, it is considered as the simplest yoga to destress your life in your prolonged struggle to strike a balance between your mind, body and outside world.
Hot oil massage
People who regularly take part in daily strenuous mental or physical activities that demand huge concentration and physical energy normally at some point of time in their life either complains of sleep disorder or hypertension or muscular inflammation causing them pain in making movement or uneasiness even while they take rest and this is the precise area where massage comes into significance. A massage of body and head relaxes the muscles, eases the limbs and greatly pacifies the nerves and nervous function and thus do wonder in relieving stress.
Cultural involvement
Though it sounds a bit out of the frame, this is truly a formidable solution for relieving stress and inducing relaxation. Cultural involvements like reading books, involving in playing a musical instrument or performing in a drama can as well be pass time activity and passionate habits of a person, but in many cases it tends to take the shape of a rigorous activity of utmost sincerity and in such cases suddenly you feel it is almost taking shape of a professional and serious activity involving commitment, mental pressure and ambitions and then you long for those earlier time when the same activity was just a happy source of refreshment and enjoyment. So if you can manage and limit your involvement in cultural activities as happy and joyous pastime this can be a great source of natural stress relief.
Use of herbs
Certain herbs which can be both common and of uncommon types can be great stress relieving agent. From ancient time holistic medication and herbal knowledge of ages has advocated the use of herbs and herbal preparations for both physical and mental stress relief. Apart from aromatic herbs like chamomile, jasmine, rose and lavender there are other herbs that can work wonder in different medical conditions of stress like, sarpagandha, ashwagandha, jatamansi, amla, brahmi, etc. But use of herbs and herbal formulations depend upon your medical condition and you can only be benefitted by these herbs if you are given these herbs as per your bodily constitution and medical condition.
Spending time with family
After a hard day's work or after a hectic business tour you hate to look into those meeting schedules or business figures and you would rather prefer a dark corner in a room of your house rather than returning to any professional activity or touring. But imagine how it would be if in those strenuous moments your family and kids just overwhelms you with their charms? Surely to destress your life there cannot be any better option than spending time with family. Fix a specific time to return home and spend time with the kids and it is the easiest way to relieve stress. But in our hectic schedule of life it sounds ridiculous to come every day in time and in that case at least spare one or two evenings in week to spend with family and reserve the week end for a small trip or leisurely outing with your family.
At least have one vacation in a year
For many professionals to find dedicated time as long as a week really sounds ridiculous in regard to spending in fun and frolic with the family. But as much you're your family needs you, you too need them beside you to relax and be happy and especially for professionals with overstressed work schedule it is truer. So if finding time on regular basis if seems impossible try to have a vacation with your family in a nice place and there is no better way than this to rejuvenate yourself in body and mind and destress your life.
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