As the world is advancing, more and more people complain about increased levels of stress leading to depression and many other diseases. However, what many people do not realize is that making simple techniques to reduce stress a part of their daily lives could make a huge difference. However, equally important is the fact that you try getting to the root cause of it too. For that purpose, you would need to seek professional help.
But what you can do on your part is to adopt ways that may aid you in reducing your stress levels.
Tips & Techniques to Reduce Stress
Here are some of the tips to minimize stress in your daily lives
Breath Focus
It means what it says, to focus on your breath. Here is how to do this. Take long, deep and slow breaths. As you are doing so, you are allowing your body and mind to disengage from any distracting sensations and thoughts. This particular exercise is particularly helpful for people who are struggling with eating disorders. Or are having some form of sleep problems.
However, certain people should not try this breath focus exercise. For example, people who suffer from health issues involving breathing difficulty. These include problems like respiratory ailments. It is better that you consult a doctor before trying this technique if you suffer from any such issue.
Meditation
Did you know that meditation can help you deal with insomnia as well? Although the causes of insomnia are different for different people. But meditating can put you in a relaxed state of mind. Researches suggest that meditating daily aids in altering your brain’s neural pathways. Thus, making an individual more resilient to stress.
And as hard as meditating might seem, it is as simple as sitting up straight with both your feet on the floor. However, concentrating could be a difficult aspect of meditating. And if you find yourself struggling to get there, do not worry as many people find it hard to concentrate at first. But things get better gradually. It will also help you in bettering your brain health and memory.
Decompress
You might not have heard of this technique before but this also helps in reducing the stress to a great extent. The name might fool you into thinking that it is hard to do tasks. However, it is as simple as placing a warm wrap around your neck and shoulders for 10 minutes. While doing so, close your eyes and try to relax your back muscles, face, upper chest, and neck. Following this, remove the wrap and use a foam roller to give yourself a massage. You will feel tensions getting released from your body.
Did you know that getting lethargic and feeling lazy are signs of poor health but they might be related to stress as well? Therefore, if you take out time to decompress, you put your body in good shape and health.
Crank Up the Tunes
Studies suggest that listening to soothing music can also help you in releasing the stress from your body. Especially if you are suffering from high blood pressure, anxiety, or have issues with your heart rate, soothing music can be your best friend. However, you will have to do some extra work for this and create your playlist so that you can listen to a series of songs for some time in a row without having any interruptions. That will put you in the mood.
In case you are wondering about the type of tunes that may help you, then you should look for nature sounds and try to focus on the melodies. Research proves that listening to such music is better than many other techniques to reduce stress.
Move that Body
Apart from listening to songs, moving the body (read: dancing) can be of help as well. You might not believe it but dancing can make you forget the biggest of your worries. For example, an issue as big as male infertility or financial problems. Although, the feeling will be temporary if you make it a part of your routine, you will be able to reduce the levels of stress that various issues bring in your life.
However, note that moving your body not only implies that you have to dance. Instead, exercising, walking, doing yoga, and the like are also a part of moving your body. And all these activities allow your body to release the ‘feel-good’ hormones. Thus, making it easy for you to cope with stress.
Repetitive Prayer
Many people would find this method rather funny, but it helps. In fact, some people think that it is one of the best techniques to reduce stress. It doesn’t take much to practice this technique either. All you have to do is silently repeat a phrase from a prayer or any short prayer while you are practicing breath focus. However, this method would be more useful if religion is meaningful to you.
Having discussed these techniques, however, does not mean that they are the only ones. Also, you cannot just rely on one technique. You will have to use them in combination. But before that, you need to know what is it that is putting you in stress. For example, you might spend your days thinking about why smoking is bad or the harm that it would cause to your body because you are a chain smoker. So don’t just think or stress about that, instead, do something about it, and ultimately get rid of it!
