Sunday, April 14, 2013

A basic approach to handling stress

By Adeleke Ademuyiwa


Manage the main causes of stress and lay aside all those approaches that operate only to hide its effects.

Stop surviving and start living: discover easy strategies that can ensure that stress stops controlling your reality.

Honestly, breaking completely free from stress becomes tons simpler if you can muster a superb practical knowledge of the rules concerned.

Stress is a human condition, so there's no point presuming that you might be somehow exempted from it effects. It's far safer to become conversant with it so that you have an adequate understanding of how to manage it.

Ignoring this point is only a mistake, particularly if stress does indeed strike, it definitely will catch you completely unaware.

Can relaxation or deep breathing type strategies be of any use?

Ask the majority of folks, and they will suggest meditation, mindfulness, relaxation or exercise are the best options for minimizing stress. However, like many people, you might recognize that your levels of stress keeps swooping back up regardless of how effective your chosen stress reduction strategy is.

Similar to a yoyo, your levels of stress go down, but soon comes back up as you re-enter into the issues of life. So you return to your stress minimizing activity to discover that the cycle keeps going. If you have undergone the stress experience, all this will not be news to you.

The way we think has a huge part to play in our alleviation of stress.

Do not get me wrong, I'm not in any respect advising that unwinding or consoling activities aren't useful. In fact, I encourage people to use these strategies daily.

However, the biggest reason behind the experience of toxic stress is our mind set.

My solution for this issue is this: Adding techniques that assist to modify our perception of situations around us to the use of the fore mentioned strategies will generate a solid and more sustainable reduction of the of toxic stress.

Improving your capacity to see things differently (noticing the bigger picture) might help you manage stress better.

Our mind-set is undeniably a sophisticated thing.

I can recall one icy morning. I was walking to my office. All I could see was slippery cold ice. It felt like I was going to collapse at each step.

I recall seeing a flashing image of myself, in my mind, falling and smacking my head on a stone. I grabbed the closest thing I could find and held on tightly. I certainly didn't want to die.

Then it happened

I noticed this kid who must have been about 15 years-old skiing on top of the ice. He nodded at me as he skidded elegantly through the path. It was like he was not even noticing the ice.

This caused an outlandish shock to my system, and boy was I ashamed. Why was I letting the ice to bully me in this manner? What was interesting with this predicament was that I knew how to Ice skate, and I have been to the ice ring on many occasion. So I made a decision to copy the boy.

Possibly instantly the ice stopped feeling so threatening. I knew how to ice skate, and I had realised that I, in fact, had the skill to master it. All I had to do was to use this skill.

We can master how to approach managing stress better using this anecdote. Our reactions to difficult situations is mostly influenced by our opinion that those situations far surpass our ability and personal resources to handle them.

Taking time to look at the bigger picture, could help us see that we actually have the capability to manage those situations.




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