Stress Management and Your Health

In this articles, I will tell you that how important it is to be stress free for a

healthier life.

 Stress relief

 Relaxation techniques

 Progressive relaxation

 Breathing relaxation

 Yoga and other relaxing exercises

Tension

Stress is a normal psychological response of your body to ever increasing

and ever demanding life. These days, our life is so tough that we have to

suffer from stress and anxiety almost every day. According to a survey most

of the Americans go through stress and anxiety at some point during the

year.

There are endless reasons for this stress but your need to know that our

brain is a very delicate part of our body and whenever it faces a situation

which he cannot consume or solve then, it releases a response for the whole

body to release hormones which control that situation but unfortunately

these days, this call for hormones is coming throughout the year and

ultimately you cannot feel the relaxed state which comes after the release of

hormones. To ensure that you do go in that relaxed state, you need to make

sure that you are going through proper stress management. If you do not do

anything about your stress then, most likely your body will never find that

relaxing state and that can lead to some fatal diseases.

Stress Relief

These days, almost everyone is stressed out and there are endless reasons

behind this stress but you need to do proper stress management to make

your life better and peaceful. There is very fixed procedure for stress relief

in which at first you have to identify your stress trigger. This trigger can be

of any type. Usual triggers are relationship pressure, financial losses, family

pressure and other similar things.

Positive events can also trigger stress for example if you are married and

you started a new job ad bought a new house in single year then, you can be

stressed out due to too much attention and financial pressure. Negative

events are always bigger causes of stress but once you have identified your

right stress trigger then, you need to rectify that triggering point.

Sometimes removing these triggers can be as easy as turning off your TV

when evening news are too stressful but sometimes it can be difficult

enough to make you go through some proper health care. There are

different stress relief strategies being implemented by people and you can

try more than one strategy and see the results on yourself. Most of these

strategies are natural and do not involve much of medication but some can

ask you to take some mild medication.

Relaxation Techniques

Relaxation techniques are a very effective method to rectify stress from

your life. There are lots of relaxation techniques available and following are

some of the most popular ones.

Progressive Relaxation

This is very common and very effective types of relaxation techniques. You

do not need to go to some professional therapist for this technique and can

implement this technique perfectly at your house. You just need to relax in

your bed, sofa or couch where ever you feel most relaxed. Lie down, close

your eyes and experience all the stressful events and try to make them go

from your mind. Concentrate hard on your present state and try to relax as

much as you can. Inhale and exhale longer breaths and make sure that you

have no distraction around like kids, TV or any other thing. Do this for

more than 10 minutes and after doing this, you will feel pretty relaxed and

calm.

Breathing Relaxation

There are lots of breathing techniques which are also known as relaxation

techniques but these techniques are little difficult to learn you need to

consult some professional therapist to learn them. You just need 2-3

sessions with your therapist to learn these breathing and relaxing exercises.

Once you learn them, then, you will feel a very positive change in your

stress level and you will be able to control your stress and anxiety.

Yoga and Other Relaxing Exercises

There are different exercises which can also help you to relax and especially

if you start practicing yoga then, you will know that these exercises give you

control over your emotions and feeling too. To learn these exercises, it is

important that you find some professional trainer who can guide you for

the right procedure because doing them improperly will not give you much

benefit and will be just a waste of your time and money.

Some Unorthodox Techniques

If you find all of the above techniques and exercise plans boring and hard

then, you need to turn towards some more unorthodox exercise or you

should say relaxing plans. Massaging is very important and very effective

relaxing therapy which can get rid of whole your tension and stress. There

are different massaging techniques which you can apply but you should

avoid doing it too often and keep this for just once or twice in a month.

Other than massaging, if you have too much stress and you do not know

any way out of that stress and anxiety then, you should go for some more

particular and professional therapies like psychotherapy. There are some

negative concepts about this therapy but you should know that it is totally

harmless and is just for mental and stress control.

All of the above mentioned methods are effective and they are proved to be

effective because hundreds and thousands of people have tried them and

found positive results out of them. If you have executed one of these

methods and have not found the required result then, this means that that

particular method was not suited to your needs and you need to adopt

another more suitable. Every method has certain limitations and certain

methods are suited in certain situations. You should give the choice of

method to your doctor or therapist because they will analyze your problem

more deeply and will prescribe the most suited method.