15 Things That Help to Reduce Stress

 

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 15 Things That Help to Reduce Stress

Sources of stress can be anything. Stress has several sources. Everything we think of, see, feel or touch is a source of stress. Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense. It also the difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension (strain). Tension is the feeling of hostility that are not manifest. It is the physical condition of being stretched or strained. Strain is also a nervousness resulting from mental stress. Nervousness is the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters. It is an uneasy psychological state. It is a sensitive temperament. At this point, let’s look at the factors that help to reduce someone stress. These factors are:

1.       1. Courage: This the quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear. From this meaning of the word courage, you can see that having courage to doing that you are supposed to be doing really go a long way to reduce your stress. The inability to face danger or risk associated with our dreams has compounded people stress. Learn to have or develop courage. It will surely minimize your stress.

2.       2.:Poise: Is to prepare oneself for something unpleasant or difficult. Many people are suffering from too much stress because of a lack of poise. Seldom, do they prepare themselves to face difficulties. That is why in the face of difficulty, they quickly or easily give up. When you prepare yourself for something unpleasant or difficulty, your mind will remain stable and calm. By so doing you are learning how to manage or reduce your stress.

3.       3. Having faith in yourself: Faith is the confidence that we have in ourselves or in a person or thing such as our dreams. When you have confidence in yourself, it boast your self-esteem or pride in yourself. It makes to become bold and brave. Faith helps you to lift your head up and face your problems. But the problem of doubt of people is causing more harm to them unknowingly to them. Doubt compound people stress but having faith helps to reduce the stress.

4.      4.  Acceptance of daily problems: Acceptance of our daily problems is one thing most people find difficult to do on daily basis. We are quick to complain about our problems. But it is often said that, we should go to the end of our strength before we complain. This is a tall order that people find too hard to comply with. The more people complain unnecessary about their problems the more they tend to increase their stress. We can do better by accepting our daily problems and by that action, our stress is reduce drastically.

5.       5.:Perseverance in bearing our problems: The inability to persevere in accepting our daily problems is one of the cogent reason why many people remain stagnant. It is the perseverance in bearing our problems that keep people still chasing their dream. They are able to do things they would otherwise not like to do. Most especially, dealing with depressing duties or distasteful work. Perseverance helps in reducing stress greatly.

6.       6. Putting pleasure into your work: Most people do not like to put pleasure into their work. They behave as if they are forcing them to do their work that will bring or put food on their table. When you learn to put pleasure into your work or duty, you are actually helping yourself to reduce your stress. But if not, you indirectly increasing your stress.

7.       7. Being optimistic or positive: When you are optimistic, you are expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds. It means that you are cheerful, rosy, hopeful, positive and upbeat. Expecting the best in every situation is an ideal way of greatly reducing one’s stress. When you are expecting the best to happen or come by, it makes you to stay focus and happy. And your mind is stable as well. Therefore, to reduce your stress, learn to be optimistic and positive.

8.       8. When you wait or stay patiently for the things you prayed for to occur or shine: When you prayed and labored for the things you have prayed for, you are doing yourself a great deal and then waiting patiently for the things you prayed and worked for to shine is indeed marvelous. Staying calm or waiting patiently for something is a kind of therapy for managing your stress. But impatient, is killing many people and thus, increases people’s stress.

9.       9. Positive thinking: Thinking is a difficult exercise. It is the process of using your mind to consider something carefully. When you carefully engage in positive thinking, you are changing your world for the better. It is through positive thinking that you can meaningfully find solutions to your problems. Negative thinking is one major obstacle in the journey to greatness or to achieve something worthwhile. Negative thinking compound people problems and thus, increases their stress as well but positive thinking on the other hand is a good way to manage and reduce stress.

1: 10. Stable or Calm mind: Mentally healthy people have stable or calm mind. Their minds are not everywhere. They are focus on what they want to do or achieve. Wavering and indecision has led many people to nowhere. The inability to take decision as at when necessary has limit people in their achievement. Unstable mind is an enemy of self. It makes somebody or people to become restless, inefficient and effective. Most people tend to abandon their work along the way due to the problem of unstableness of mind. Thus, they directly worsen their situations and thereby increases their stress. Learn to make your mind stable. So that, you can reduce your stress.

11.   11. Doing the right things at the right time: One way to reduce one’s stress is to do the right things at the right time. The failure of people not to do the right things at the right time but at the wrong time is a great disservice to themselves. This is why people find it hard to gain certain things the way or manner they would have loved to gain. The habit of not wanting to do the right things at the right time or doing things at the wrong time is also abating and increasing people’s problems. Our stress tend to increase when we do things or works at the wrong times. When we are supposed to do something, we allowed procrastination to steal the time away. When we do our works at the right time, we are consciously reducing our stress.

12.   12.:Doing your work well or rightly or in the right way: Apart from trying to do your work at the right time, which is a good thing in itself, learning to do that right thing well is better. Most people even when they are actually doing the right things they don’t do it well. This is the beginning of their ordeals. It is good to do the right things at the right time but is better to do those right things rightly or in the right ways. Doing your work well helps to reduce your stress a great deal.

13.   13. Doing what you are supposed to be doing: Most people of great will spend most of their time doing every other things but what they are supposed to do. They often left the main thing behind. They get busy all day doing the things whose gains are more of short-term or urgent. Those things with long- term profit are most often kept at the background. Most people often love to go after things that please their mine even when those things are not the main or major. Going after what pleases you, instead of what you are supposed to do or be doing, is a sure way to increase your stress. If the main things are left undone, it then means that nothing has being done. Doing what you are supposed to be doing is a stress reduction process.

14.   14. When your power or level of actions is at the level of your desire or equal to your desire: Our desires have different actions to make them come true. If the power of your actions are not in the corresponding level of your desires, it becomes too difficult to achieve those desires. If your actions and your desires are not in the same level, you can’t achieve that desire. The two must married each other. When you put little effort into what you are doing, how do you expect to achieve that thing? It is impossible. If you must reduce your stress, you must up your game by raising your actions to be at equal with your desires. Most people don’t get to achieve their desires because their level or power of actions is at the lower level while their desire is at the upper level, thus, they increase their stress.

15.    15. Forgiveness:  forgiveness is one of the way to reduce your stress because you free yourself of inner pains. It helps you to free yourself from bondage.  Forgiveness is not only limited to other people who offended us. But also include our ability to forgive ourselves of our past mistakes. Most people tend to hold unto the past and refuse to let go. This actions of holding unto the past is a promoter of stress. Forgiveness helps us to move away from the past and focus on the future. If you find a way to reduce your stress, then forgiveness is one of such effective way.                                           

The above fifteen things are some of the things that help to reduce stress in our lives. Stress is part and part of our daily actions or activities. We can’t do without stress, is always there. It is your ability to manage or reduce it that counts.