STRESS REDUCERS (3) -

Stress Reducers
''The ROAD to WELLNESS''

(Third Group)


 

1. Writing your feelings and thoughts down (in a journal or a piece of paper to be thrown away) can help you clarify things and give you a renewed perspective.

 2. Try the following Yoga technique when you need to relax. Inhale deeply through your nose until the count of eight. Then, with your lips puckered, exhale until the count of sixteen, or for as long as you can. Concentrate on the long sighing sound, and watch the tension dissolve. Repeat 10 times.

3. Inoculate yourself to a feared event. Example: Before speaking in public, go over every part of the experience in your mind. What you will wear, how the audience will look, how you will present your talk, what the questions will be and how you will answer them, etc. Visualize the experience and how you would have it be. You will likely find that when the time comes to make the actual presentation, it will be ''old hat'' and much of your anxiety will have fled.

4. Talk it out. Discussing your problems with a

trusted friend can help you clear your mind of any confusion and leave it free for problem solving.

5. Select an environment that is inline with you personal needs and desires. If you hate desk jobs, don't accept a job that requires you sit at a desk all day. If you hate to talk politics, don't work with people who

discuss politics a lot. Etc.

6. Learn to live one day at a time.

7. Everyday, do something you really enjoy.

8. Add an ounce of love to everything you do.

9. Take a hot bath or shower (cool one in summer,) to relieve tension.

10. Do something for somebody else.

11. Focus on understanding rather than being understood. Focus on loving that being loved.

12. Do something that improves your appearance. Looking better can help you feel better.

13. When the stress of getting a job done, gets in the way of getting the job done, a diversion or voluntary change in activity and/or environment may be just what you need.