Immediate Anxiety Relief - A Natural Technique to Stop Panic Attacks and General Anxiety Fast!

By Charlie Bonesteel

The anxiety is just too much to bear, so she skips the first day of class to avoid the possibility of having to introduce herself in class. Anxiety is your body's way of alerting you that some kind of action is needed in the face of a situation that is perceived to be threatening or dangerous.

Therefore, anxiety can be useful or adaptive whenever it prompts you to take appropriate action in response to an anxiety-provoking situation. Anxiety is probably the most basic of all emotions. Not only is it experienced by all humans, but anxiety responses have been found in all species of animals right down to the sea slug.

Exposure to the feared social situations almost always causes significant anxiety, even a panic attack despite the fact that the anxiety is seen as excessive and unreasonable. This belief may lead to avoidance of such situations or endurance under extreme distress, leading to marked interference in the person's functioning and routine. If your anxiety is a reaction to a single, isolated event - the shot the doctor is about to give you, for example - your anxiety level will decrease and your symptoms will disappear after the event.

If your anxiety is caused by friction between you and your mother-in-law, you're likely to experience anxiety for a period of time before and after you see her. If you are in business the cost of Anxiety is incalculable. This fear could cost you tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars over your career.

Yet the nature of the anxiety is still unclear. It is associated with a poor response to psychostimulant medication treatment, and alternative pharmacotherapy approaches have been suggested. Anxiety is often accompanied by physical changes and behaviors similar to those caused by fear. Anxiety is not a normal response to stress though stress, if it continues long enough, can lead to anxiety. There are many kinds of stresses in our lives, many of them unavoidable.

According to the cognitive perspective, the most effective way to deal with the anxiety is to transform the anxiety into fear. Then one will know exactly what is bothering them. Anxiety is a problem when our body reacts as if there is danger when there is no real danger. It's like having an overly sensitive smoke alarm system in your body! Research indicates that generalized anxiety is fully treatable and can be successfully overcome over the course of about three to four months if the person is motivated and works toward recovery.

Because test anxiety hinges on fear of negative evaluation, debate exists as to whether test anxiety is itself a unique anxiety disorder or whether it is a specific type of social phobia. Test anxiety is not caused by the test but rather by the meaning that the individual attaches to the test.

If you mentally tell yourself that you are not going to do well or that you have not studied enough, then you will have an emotional reaction that is consistent with that message. Anxiety is a multisystem response to a perceived threat or danger. It reflects a combination of biochemical changes in the body, the patient's personal history and memory, and the social situation.

Anxiety is an emotion that sends our mind into the future. After all, nobody is anxious about the past, right? As an ex sufferer I know exactly what anxiety is and how it could interfere with living a normal life. I also know that there is a cure for anxiety that doesn't require addictive medication. Performance anxiety is caused by the ways you think and feel.

However, many seniors avoid seeking treatment for these disorders, because they feel that the anxiety is normal � "I've had it all my life, it's a part of me.". Performance Anxiety is most commonly experienced as a fear of public speaking. However, people whose career or other interests require them to take the "stage" for other purposes, i.e., actors, musicians, athletes, etc., will experience stage fright as an impairment of their own particular activity.

Anxiety is a generalized mood condition that occurs without an identifiable triggering stimulus. As such, it is distinguished from fear, which occurs in the presence of an observed threat.

Knowing the difference between heart attack and anxiety is crucial. Many people have mistaken anxiety as a heart attack. Put simply, anxiety is fear. It's normal to feel scared before a big event. If fear and anxiety is an ongoing problem in your life, schedule a regular time each week to talk with someone.

The physiological arousal we experience as anxiety is directly related to fear of harm. When we are faced with a threat to our physical well-being that can result in either serious physical harm or death, we respond psychologically and physically. Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress.

It helps one deal with a tense situation in the office, study harder for an exam, keep focused on an important speech. This is because one way to beat anxiety is to let yourself suffer anxiety attacks while developing a passive attitude. This can work but it takes persistence and patients.

Anxiety is a feeling of nervousness, apprehension, fear, or worry. Some fears and worries are justified, such as worry about a loved one or in anticipation of taking a quiz, test, or other examination. The term social anxiety is also commonly used in reference to experiences such as embarrassment and shame.

However some psychologists draw distinctions among various types of social discomfort, with the criterion for anxiety being anticipation. For me, Anxiety is basically a list of article ideas and pitches to send out when I have time. You could really use it for any kind of list, though.

Anxiety is an unpleasant feeling of fear and apprehension. Normally anxiety can be useful, helping us to avoid dangerous situations, making us alert and giving us the motivation to deal with problems. At the other end of the continuum, too little anxiety is grounded in contentment. When we feel too little anxiety, we avoid change, value the status quo, and believe everything will continue to be O.K.

Anxiety is one of the most common yet underdiagnosed mental health problems of Americans; as many as 20% of people seeking primary care have symptoms of treatable anxiety disorders. Untreated anxiety Increases costly visits to urgent care.

Anxiety is a common ailment in our society. However, the drugs available to treat mild-to-moderate anxiety, particularly benzodiazepines, are problematic because they can cause injury, produce side-effects, and create dependence. During the debriefing everything but anxiety is permitted.

Laughter and tears came out, but as soon as individuals began to show anxiety, usually manifesting itself in hyperventilation, then they were made to stop and breathe. Anxiety is usually triggered by a situation that involves a decision or judgement; tests and exams are common precursors of anxiety in educational settings.

He also pointed out that anxiety is linked to a special state of preparedness: it looks as if the subject is defending himself against some horror with the help of anxiety. Anxiety is a old habit pattern that my body responds to. I am going to calmly and nicely change this old habit. Generalized or "free-floating" anxiety is distinguished from phobia because it is not triggered by a specific object or situation.

Notice there are multiple places where library anxiety is common: initiation, sometimes selection, exploration, and collection. The important thing to remember is that anxiety is very common among people seeking information. If not it's likely that your anxiety is inappropriate. Later we'll look at ways of combating anxiety but for now it's enough just to learn how to recognize it. Pooch1:

Anxiety is a debilitating experience that can leave you feeling alone and helpless. Childrens' anxiety is especially traumatic as they are not able to discern fears that are able to be overcome.

Again, do not take stimulants if anxiety is your problem! In fact, be sure to cut back or eliminate caffeine, decongestants and any other type of stimulant you may be exposed to. Another serious type of anxiety is chronic anxiety, which is often defined compared to panic attacks as less serious but more generalized.

There are many people that feel a vague sense of anxiety which never reaches the intensity level of a panic attack. When performers are on stage, their anxiety is channeled into focused energy. Practice taking sample tests with your study team, and you should be more confident during the actual test.

Anxiety is a very treatable disorder. Separation anxiety is a phase. Every child goes through it, every childcare book covers it. My anxiety is pretty through the roof. I have been peeing a lot lately - sometime 2x per hour (not every day - just sometimes).

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Work? Life? Balance? How To Create Ideal Work/Life Balance in a 24/7 World

by Dr. Nicola D Bunting

What are your thoughts about Yahoo recently withdrawing the treasured right to work at home?

The viability of work-life balance is a hotly-debated, contentious topic. I've read recent articles suggesting that it's good to merge your working and personal life and that its positive that some companies make it easy to work all day and often at night by providing dry-cleaning services and free food and drink (I strongly disagree by the way)! Or another article complaining that working mothers are unfair on their single colleagues because they leave early and expect them to do an unfair share of work.

When you work at home, where (and when) do you draw the lines between work and home? And how do you do that? If you work in an office, what time do you leave, and do you then continue working later at home?

Where work begins and ends has never been more important to resolve

Do you find yourself spending Sunday evening checking your work emails and getting ready for Monday morning?

On Thursday at 8 pm do you find yourself desperately trying to finish an urgent report instead of having dinner with your partner or going to the gym? When you're on the school run, are you multitasking with your mobile? Heaven forbid, are you taking work calls by the pool during your summer holiday?

Uh oh! What about your work life balance?

With boundaries between your work and your life so blurred at the moment, work time encroaching on you time like a hungry amoeba, work-life balance may seem like a quaint, outdated concept. Is it realistic or even possible? If so what does it mean and how do you get it?!

Here are 10 tips to help you achieve the nirvana-like state of mutually inspiring work life balance. And yes it IS possible, as I know from 12 plus years coaching high-performers to achieve more while having & enjoying a life!

1) You need to love your work (or be able to adjust it or your approach to it so that you DO love it). Or change jobs or even career if not. Fundamentally, for work life balance to be possible, your work needs to reflect your values and strengths, to be harmonious with your vision and purpose. If your work works with your values, there can be a connected flow between your work and your life with mutually energising momentum. But if you don't love your work now, it's impossible to create great work/life balance as your work and life are intrinsically incompatible and opposed: it is literally your work or your life. You're checking yourself out when you check yourself in.

2) Get clear on what your values, strengths, passions are, so that you can make sure your work aligns with them. Change your job, your career, or start your own business if it doesn't. Creating a clear, inspiring personal vision and purpose is powerful, not just effective, but even transformative.

3) Take time for your life... Assuming you do fundamentally love your career and your job (you may love one but not the other of course), you still need to take time for your life in order to feel balanced and happy. All too often people make the mistake of trying to fit their personal life around what is left of their time and energy after they finish work. Guess what? They are then exhausted and out of time and their personal life gets put on hold. Which isn't sustainable-you will get squeezed out and ultimately burnt out. Your relationships will get impoverished, your health will suffer, you will be miserable... So make crucial appointments with yourself or they won't happen - i.e. I know a news anchor who works out 4-5 days a week at 5.30 am. As challenging as it is to get out of bed so early, especially in winter, she finds that her new energy reserves make every other challenge seem like a positive opportunity she can sail through successfully. Scheduling regular date nights, gym times, meditation times, spa appointments etc is absolutely key. Equally, set boundaries for your work, around travel, not working evenings or weekends etc. The resulting balance will actually make you more successful as well as happier.

4) Accept sometimes balance will tilt one way or another because of unusual circumstances, but have that be an exception for a predetermined short period of time. You might decide to take an extended holiday for a month. Fab! You might have an urgent project that will have you working all hours for 2 weeks. OK! But don't say, for example, that you will knock yourself out for a year at work in order to achieve something. You won't get that year of your life back, and you're setting dangerous precedents and habits that will compromise your quality of life.

5) Practice exceptional self-care. Because you're worth it and it will allow you to feel your best and deliver! That means physical self-care-eating lots of fruit and vegetables, not just sandwiches, drinking lots of water and not so much coffee, and getting brilliantly physically fit by creating the discipline to exercise regularly. And don't forget care of the soul too, just as important, whatever that means to you.

6) Be mindful. Be present. Don't multi-task. Being present rather than distracted makes you centred and grounded and also creates an impression of gravitas and presence. Multitasking with young children is particularly dangerous. A client told me recently that her young daughter threw something heavy at her in sheer rage when she was distracted from their play date by a business call.

7) Achieve more success through balance... Far from compromising your work effectiveness, individuals who protect their energy by looking after themselves and maintaining strong boundaries, are able to demonstrate more creativity, big-picture thinking, better empathy and communication skills, all qualities that are essential for long-term success. With my own executive coaching clients, I consistently see evidence that better work-life balance correlates with professional achievement and promotion - without exception, in fact.

8) Happiness..If you have better work-life balance, you are likelier to enjoy a more rewarding, inspiring, and restorative personal life, be happier, and have higher self-esteem. If you look after yourself, you give yourself the message that you matter and are worth taking care of.

9) Resilience... Poor work-life balance will lead to getting stressed out, exhausted, depleted, and ultimately burnt out. It's not sustainable. It's therefore in companies' interests too to make sure that their driven high-achievers aren't overdoing it.

10) Career leverage... Balance allows big-picture clarity about your career vision, the space and mental energy to nurture your professional networks, keep your head above water, understand the bigger trends in your industry, connect with head-hunters, get invited to speak and raise your profile, be front of mind for exciting new job opportunities. Whereas being exhausted by over-working and under-living just gets you stuck and keeps you stuck.

Let me reassure you that your fulfilling work can inspire (and be a part of) your happy personal life, and your happy life can inspire your successful work. I have many former and current coaching clients who have created exactly this kind of mutually reinforcing energising balance. So what's the secret?

As the poet E.E. Cummings says, "There's a hell of a good universe out there, let's go!".

One of my favourite quotes about the beauty of balance is from poet W.B. Yeats - Among School Children:

Labour is blossoming or dancing where

The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.

Nor beauty born out of its own despair,

Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.

O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,

Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?

O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

To dance, you need balance!

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Kitten Therapy: The Prescription for Stress

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How To Use Stress To Your Betterment

By Andy Gibson

For some, stress is hard to live with. For others, it's hard to live without.

As soon as, a 36 year old working woman opens her eyes and sees that's she's over slept by half an hour, she has the sinking feeling that it's going to be one of those days when nothing seems to go right. Rushing to get ready for work, she dashes a glass of hot milk on the kitchen floor, and then hurries out only to find that the trains are delayed because of a power failure. After finally arriving at her office, late of course, she learns that her boss has moved up an important deadline that will keep her working late every night for the next week. Then, when she gets home, she finds that the washing machine has broken down.

Contrast that, with a retired executive, who wakes up at his usual time, has a leisurely breakfast with his wife and then heads off to the club for a game of golf with friends. He returns home in the afternoon, takes a nap, and then has an early dinner and watches a movie on the video.

Which person is under more stress? From the outside, the answer is obvious; the lady is the one under pressure. On the inside, however, the answer may be just the opposite. Retired executive may be ready to explode, while the working woman may be handling her situation calmly.

Most of the stress, we experience does not come from an outside source. Its something we create ourselves, say the experts. People's reactions to similar events vary widely, and what may see very stressful to one person may not bother another person very much at all. The difference lies in how people perceive the events, not in the events themselves.

Some people, it seem, perceive the most innocuous events and common places as parries or threats. Such people are chronically stressed or stress addicts. It's almost as if they have a physical carving to make themselves upset. They go fine for days at a time, then boom: they have got bad TV reception, or found a film of dust on the window still, and they're all twisted into knots. The bad spell could go on for days at a time. And it is so predictable. No matter how well thins are going, sooner or later, such persons go berserk. If nothing happened to trigger, the stress, they'd find something.

Such chronic stress can lead to a host of physical problems ranging from mood disorders, gastrointestinal distress and heart irregularities to peptic ulcers, cardiovascular disease and stroke.

That's not to say we should try to avoid stress altogether. At times stress can be a tremendous motivator, spurring us to complete our work or handle a difficult situation. Other stresses aren't beneficial, but are unavoidable: a death in the family, being fired from a job, debilitating illness. The secret is not to seek to avoid all stress, but instead to learn how to deal with it effectively.

The Nature of Stress

Thought stress may spring from our minds, in order to master it we first have to understand and what it does to our bodies and that means traveling back in time several million years. Back then, stress meant facing a charging tiger, not standing up to a tyrannical boss. For our caveman ancestors, the proper reaction was either fight or flight. Either alternates called for a burst of energy triggered by so called "stress hormones," substances that increase heart rate, blood pressure and muscle strength, and quicken our reaction time. All those changes are beneficial if you are facing a snarling tiger, but not so healthy when you are faced to work with a two legged version of one day after day.

The source of stress has changed over the years, but the physiological responses are still the same. When we are facing financial worries, for example, the stress may last for months or even years. After a while the body naturally starts to tire, and then we begin to experience abnormal physical responses like depression, tiredness, sexual dysfunction, bowel and urinary irregularities, aches and pains, and heart palpitations. And in certain people, stress may be the trigger for more serious illness such as ulcers, coronary heart disease, and stroke.

What is the reason behind people's differing reaction to Stress?

Some researches believe the answer lies in the body itself. "People react differently because of complex and subtle biochemical factor," say Dr. Ray Rosenman, co-author of Type A behavior and your Heart and Director of cardiovascular Research at the Stanford Research Institute. "There are definite anatomical and biological reasons for the wide spectrum of responses people have to anxiety and stress."

In this view, our differing responses to stress are largely beyond our control, set by the physiological and genetic factor that cannot be changed. According to Dr Rosenman, for example, women seem to be more prone to anxiety than men, a difference he attributes in part to differences in the hypothalamus.

Other experts believes that the answer lies in the mind, in long held behavior patterns and belief systems that influence the ways we perceive and deal with stress. How we view the world, says this school of thinking, is pretty much formed in early childhood. Then we go through life under the illusion that we are making our decision at a conscious level. When in reality we're being guided by long standing sub conscious beliefs.

To illustrate, take the example of a person, who as the non rational, subconscious belief that he needs the constant approval of al his relatives, friends and co-workers. Obviously he is not going to get it, which leaves him feeling abandoned and rejected. While a co worker may see a boss's bad mood simply as an irritant, this person may convince himself that it's a sigh he's going to be fired. The key to dealing with that stress is to recognize what his underlying belief is, and then modify it.

A Commonsense Approach

Most stress reduction programs rely on a few basic techniques that anyone can follow:

• Keep a stress dairy to record the things that are causing your stress, rating their importance on a scale of one to ten. Then list and rate your responses to that stress. A ten response to a two problem is foolish.
• Exercise can be one of the best stress busters of all.
• Modify your diet to cut out those substances that may be aggravating your stress. Eat well balanced means and reduce intake of caffeine, salt, alcohol and cigarettes.
• Learn relaxation and meditation techniques and practice them regularly. Growing numbers of books and tapes can teach you the basics, and even a few minutes of such techniques each day can calm and refresh you.
• Build a strong support network of family and friends to help you trough the tough times. Sometimes all it takes to relieve stress is a long conversation with a good friend.
• And perhaps most basic of all, don't sweat the small stuff. Realize that most of the stress we have in our lives probably won't seem that important in a year or even in a month. The secret to reducing stress is realizing that life is good in spite of the daily irritations.

Addictive Stress

Whatever it's underlying cause, some people may come to believe that being stressed is normal, and that can't function effectively without it. Stress for them becomes a kind of addiction, a fix needed to feel complete.

Take the example of an executive with a financial planning company who puts in long working hours in a very stress environment. At the coaxing of his wife, he finally agreed to take a three week vacation. Once there, however, he couldn't relax because of a whole new set of stresses he created for himself: worries about the safety of their hotel, irritations with the house keeping staff, and a frenetic schedule that took them t every tourist sport. "I thought that once he got away from the office, everything would be fine," says his fine. "But he actually seemed more stressed on vacation than he did before. It's as if the thought of totally relaxing scares him to death."

Such stress can simply be a self destructive habit, or a way of avoiding other, more serious problems: "I've got so much stress at work that I don't have the energy to deal with my mother's illness." By focusing on minor irritations, a person may try to overcome deeper worries or avoid them, leading to a continuous spiral of stress.

Some researches speculate that the key to understanding addictive stress lies in the same physical and emotional responses that underlie addictions like smoking or drinking. Dr Paul Rosch, president of the American institute of stress and a clinical professor of medicine and Psychiatry at New York Medical College, says that people can become hooked on the adrenaline secretions released during a stressful reaction. "When that happens, they have alterations in certain brain transmitters that provide a sense of fulfillment," he says. "If they can't get that adrenaline boost, they can't get that pleasurable feeling. It's a similar mechanism to the one involved in other addictions."

Such findings may explain the pleasure some people claim to feel when they are under stress. "The only time I feel truly alive is when I'm working under an impossibly tight deadline," confesses one woman. "Once the pressure is off, everything seems flat."

Beating Stress

Unless we isolate ourselves completely from the world, of course, we are going to have to live with stress. And the best way to do that, say doctors and psychologist, s not through artificial controls like tranquilizers, but through lifestyle and cognitive changes.

"The best advice for dealing with stress is simple: find out what makes you feel anxious and then take pains to avoid it," says Dr. Rosenman.

But there are many stresses that we simply have to learn to deal with: a long, congested commute to work, the chronic illness of spouse, money problems. These are things we may have little control over, and thus they are the most potentially damaging.

What we do have control over is how we react to such problems. As the example at the beginning of this article shows, it's not so much what the outside stresses are, as how we deal with them. Various techniques can help you change your behavior patterns in ways that can relieve the physical symptoms of stress.

More deep seated, cognitive changes may require outside counseling or more introspective approach. Certain fundamental attitudes play an important role in the stresses experienced my many older people, for the anxieties they feel are often not the obvious ones of a high pressure job or the struggle to raise a family. Instead they may be concerned with declining health, the loss of friends, and a feeling of not being productive after retirement.

As we age, we need to develop new coping skills to deal with the new source of stress in our lives. One of the most important issues is related to self worth. Often we commit the error of "ego rating' equating our worth with our productivity or with other people's evaluations of us. We may think that if we are not productive at the same level that we were before, then we have diminished worth. As our lives changes, we need to define ourselves in new ways.

The lesson is one that we should all learn: stress is a controllable and treatable affliction. With sufficient effort and understanding, it doesn't have to be a life sentence.

I firmly believe that the whole universe is inter-connected. Our body, mind and spirit are deeply rooted with each other. If body is sick, the mind cannot relax or feel good. And if mind is not relaxed, it will give birth to stress and that will lead to chronic health problems.

So, it is clear that in order to posses a sound body we must have a calm and peaceful mind. Without a sound mind we cannot expect our potential growth or development.

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Stress and How to Cope With It

By Awnish Todi  |   Submitted On March 02, 2016

Stress is a normal response to difficult situations. We often confuse it as some form of mental pressure caused due to our own inability to deal with things. But that's not what it is. Stress is not an action, it's a reaction. Stress is our reaction to various external factors.
Before we get to the whole coping part, first we need to understand a few things about stress that are essential.

1. Stress is not always bad
Stress is the body's way of reacting to a challenge. When faced with a tough situation, there are a whole lot of reactions that the body goes through. Increased pulse rate, adrenaline boost, faster response to stimuli and among those, stress is one.
But the same stress that 'stresses us out', also makes us quicker and more prone to handle situations better. Stress makes us do our best. So it isn't always a bad thing.

2. Stress varies from person to person
Some people are inherently calmer and more composed, compared to others. So, their reactions also are different. Stress levels change vastly across different people and are not to be compared at any stage.
If I can deal with a tough situation well that does not make another person's stress or panic a bad thing. It is after all only a reaction.

3. Stress is not always an illness
There are a variety of stress related disorders. But just because a person is prone to stress, does not make them a patient. Stress disorders, like all other disorders are something that cannot be confirmed unless clinically diagnosed.
Thus, stress in daily life is as normal as it can be.

4. Stress always has a trigger
May not be something happening at the moment. Sometimes the trigger of stress goes back in time, that we don't even recall the incident. That is because our mind is an expert at suppressing information that can be distressing. But no stress, ever comes without a trigger.
Stress that is positive or good for us in some way, is called Eustress and the one which makes us all panicky and unable to see straight is Distress.
Modern day MNCs encourage some amount of work stress to ensure that employees push ahead and don't get too comfortable. Although as the position becomes more and more powerful, eustress becomes distress. Let us now look at some stress related disorders.

1. General Stress
This is your old school, before an exam, important day type of stress. It is so normal and so vastly experienced that if you don't experience it, people think you're a bit weird (in a good way of course!).
General stress requires nothing more than a few deep breaths and a cool glass of water. It goes away as fast as it came.

2. Acute Stress
This is in a way, the big brother of general stress. It is not in any way damaging, but it makes you completely frazzled and leaves you exhausted.
This would be the stress people experience when work load is doubled, during year end or when you study for a history test and get the math paper in hand. The situation is overloaded and so the brain becomes irritated and you start sweating and panicking.
Acute stress can also be dealt with the old ways, but the best thing to do is to simply let it pass.

3. Episodic Acute Stress
This is one of the serious types. It's one thing to be stressed out, but something is off when a person gets worked out about almost everything. Even things that is not stressful. So be it their wedding day or their nothing day, there is something they will stress about.
For people with episodic stress, things get out of hand very quickly. Calm becomes chaos in the blink of an eye. They take on more than they can chew and at the moment of truth, they are about to explode.
Episodic stress patients are often studied for crisis management purposes just to get a grasp of how masses will respond to a situation.

4. Chronic Stress
While acute stress can be thrilling and exciting, chronic stress is not. This is the grinding stress that wears people away day after day, year after year. Chronic stress destroys bodies, minds and lives. It wreaks havoc through lives.
If you can imagine what the stress must be in a situation of war, then I assure, you can imagine what chronic stress is like. It requires medical help and proper treatment.
While Chronic Stress needs proper medical attention, the other forms of stress can be dealt with. One can even cultivate a habit to deal with it.
For people whose daily lives involve stress (stock brokers I see you!), these few tricks always come in handy.

Coping with stress

• Always, DEEP BREATHES. Don't argue, simply follow. Breathe deeply and breathe often.
• Water. Drink it slowly and prolong the drink. Don't gulp it all down and expect to be calm. The more time you take, the more time you get to process things.
• Use a stress ball. Those smiley faces aren't a joke. They release tension from your muscles and that helps you relax physically.
• Be patient. Nothing is going to happen sooner than it is meant to, simply because you're about to burst a nerve! Close your eyes and be patient.
• Be prepared, if you can. This is what you need to do before events that are inevitably going to happen (EXAMS). Be prepared well in advance. No stress.
• Count down from 100. With every number down, think like it's one point of stress leaving your body. By the time you hit 0, you'll be back to #1.
• Know you are human. Like seriously! There are limits to what you can and cannot achieve. So stop biting off more than you can chew. Accept only enough work and do it perfectly.
• Have some quiet time alone. Have some beverage (whatever you please) and let the negativity get out on its own.
To end, get this one right up there on your list of best quotes -
"Tough times don't last. Tough people do."

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Stress and how to avoid it

Today is #NationalStressAwarenessDay.  For my first ever blog I shall cover the topic of Stress - something that most of us come into contact with every day.

Stress is a constant in the lives of many of us; in small amounts it can be useful eg to keep us focussed to meet a deadline.  However, prolonged exposure to stress and stressful situations can have adverse effects.  Common causes of stress are work-related situations:

 

• a difficult boss or harassment from colleagues
• deadlines or a heavy workload
• a lack of training or a dangerous job
• long hours and a resulting unhealthy lifestyle
• demanding third parties such as customers or suppliers
• Some other causes include illness or emotional problems, financial worries, bereavement, divorce, job loss or a traumatic event

 Learn to identify stress situations

• Make a note of when you feel stressed - the situation that is triggering it, your thoughts and mood

• Do you show any physical symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, difficulty sleeping or concentrating, irritability or depression?

• Look at patterns and repeating triggers to identify stressful situations

• Once identified, create a plan to address them

 

Know how to avoid these situations, or act to lessen their impact

• Try to address the issue directly - can you ask for more training at work or more flexible working  hours; can you speak to someone about difficult work colleagues, perhaps human resources

• Voice your concerns and be more assertive – you have a right to be heard

• Is compromise an option to reduce the stress of the situation

• Can you avoid the situation completely or give up the task for someone else to complete

• Can you break down the trigger into manageable pieces so that the activity no longer causes you to become stressed

• Learn to say ‘No’ – people will respect you for it and will be much less upset than you suspect

• Walk away from stressful situations or count to 10 before reacting; a short period of exercise, such as a 5 minute walk, can be a great way to recalibrate your mood

• If this is not possible, think about whether this will be important to you in 5 years’ time?  If not, perhaps it does not warrant the importance you are attaching to it; try to see the bigger picture and focus on the positives

• Try to accept the situation and understand that there are always stressors in life that have to be dealt with or accepted

• Seek help from friends - talk through the issue with friends, family or colleagues that you trust.  Not only those that will give you the answer that you want, but someone who might challenge why you feel this way about a particular situation

• If this does not work and the situation continues to feel overwhelming, seek professional support

 

Coping with Stress

• Eat healthily with a variety of fruit and vegetables, protein and fat

• Take part in regular exercise particularly group activities to release tension

• Set aside time to relax with activities such as yoga, meditation and deep breathing

• Get a good night’s sleep on a regular basis

• Learn to manage your time by prioritising important jobs and being more efficient

• Don’t take on too many tasks by learning to say ‘No’

• Understand that the world is never going to be perfect and you can only do your best; none of us is perfect

• Laugh more!! and find humour in everyday life

 

But did you know…… Stress can be good for you!

• Helps boost brainpower – stimulates production of brain chemicals which strengthens connections between neurons

• Short term increase in immunity – produces chemicals that boost immunity temporarily

• Makes you more resilient – you learn to cope with stressful situations

• Motivates you to succeed – helps to focus your mind to a specific task or deadline, and can make you more creative

• Exercise involves a good form of stress, on the body, and has positive results, such as the release of endorphins

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