Whenever you are feeling Stress & anxiety, find time for the following:
1. Close your Eyes. The act of simply closing your eyes causes a change in brainwave production from fast-paced beta brainwaves to slower, peaceful alpha waves. Give yourself at least 10 – 15 minutes of quiet time with your eyes closed and you’ll naturally feel more relaxed.
2. Deep Breathing. We all realize that when we allow ourselves to be overcome with stress, our breathing cycle is shorter and quicker than normal. To directly attack stress, take deep breaths by inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth. This quickly changes us from a state of intense stress to one of peacefulness
3. Go Jogging & walking. Exercise is a great way to desensitize your nervous system and do away with stressful feelings. Make yourself moving and go for a nice jog, gym, or for a walk.
4. Be Around Calm and positive people. A great technique is to surround you with calm people having positive attitude towards the life. Their beliefs, actions, and behaviourism will naturally rub off into your consciousness. Spending time with stressful, negative, or hyperactive individuals will probably drain your energy and will not aid you in the process of de-stressing.
5. Guided Meditations. Guided meditations usually involve an individual consciously relaxing their entire body. Set aside 10 – 15 minutes to scale your body for areas of tension and replace all tension with a feeling of relaxation. You will feel great and be able to quickly unwind and unstressed after a short guided meditation.
6. Relax your Tongue. It may Sound ridiculous to most people, yet it is an extremely potent way to effectively calm your mind. Calming brainwaves increase when your tongue relaxes, and beta brainwaves (stressful brainwaves) decrease. Let your entire jaw relax along with your tongue and go into a calmer state of awareness.
7. Get a massage. If you just don’t feel like doing any of the other suggestions, getting a quality massage will be extremely effective at reducing your stress. The physical relaxation that results from getting a massage will slow down your stressful mental processing and leave your body and mind with a new sense of vitality.
8. Remove the Root Cause. Ask yourself what event, person, or thing is the root cause of your stress. After you understand what is causing your stress, target and eliminate the root cause in as respectful and peaceful of manner as possible.
9. Accept your stress. The action of accepting your body and mind’s reaction to stress alone will help you recover from stress quicker. When you don’t accept your adrenaline, rapid thoughts, etc., you put yourself in a position to become more stressed out over what is happening to yourself. Accepting yourself will break the cycle and allow you to feel more peaceful.
10. Talk with friends, Release Emotions. Expressing your emotions by having a quality conversation about your stress with a trusted friend will always help relieving stress. Your friends may provide helpful suggestions, encourage your relaxation, help take stress off of your focus, and allow you to get the bottled-up emotions out of your system.
??11. Get involved with the Nature. Experience nature and appreciate its beauty. I have mentioned this in my first article in the 10×10 series to becoming more conscious because it can be a very blissful experience. Appreciating what nature has to offer, by seeing the animals, plants, the encompassing sky, and pure beauty, you will naturally lose focus of stress.
??12. Orgasm. While some may not understand but fact is that the act of sexual orgasm really is a profound way to relax. Usually, after sex, you feel tired. Sex provides a great workout, bonding with a partner, and is really one of the best ways to let go of stress. Though stress may really take your mind off of sex, it may just be a key ingredient in the process of your recovery.
??13. Take a Nap. We already know that taking a nap has been proven to boost brain power, but what you may not think about are the stress relieving benefits that napping can provide. Sometimes the only way for your brain to fully recover is to snooze on it and allow your subconscious to sort itself out.
14. Listen to soothing music. Have you ever tried to listen to some music during stress? Listening to soothing music is good experience and definitely feels great to listen to when feeling stressed. It has potential to shift your thoughts from a cycle of stress to one of calmness.
15. Say prayer. Say a prayer when you are stressed and try to connect deeply. When you can successfully pull of a deep, soulful prayer, it will definitely relax your body and mind.
16. During Winters. Have Sun Bath. Soaking up sun rays naturally boosts levels of the neurotransmitter/ serotonin, and allows us to effectively go into a deep state of relaxation.
Almighty ALLAH Bless you and save you > always > from stress & anxiety.
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