Stress can cause many physical illnesses and should be kept under control in order to live a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life. Below are some activities you can do to help alleviate stress.
1. Meditate:
Meditation is a very good way to calm your nerves when you are under stress. Spend a few minutes each day to just focus on your breathing, empty your mind, and let all your stress melt away.
2. Exercise:
Spend 30 – 60 minutes each day to do some kind of exercise that you enjoy doing. Exercise leads to the release of endorphins that help to alleviates stress and pain. When you feel stuck on trying to resolve an issue, sometimes it helps to just take your focus off the problem and concentrate on something else that you enjoy doing. By doing this, your conscious mind starts to relax and allow your subconscious mind to process the thoughts in the background. Oftentimes, the solution will come up after your activity, or the next morning after you’ve had a good night’s sleep.
3. Listen to your favorite music:
Sit back and listen to some comforting music for a while. Just 5 or 10 minutes will help to calm you down and clear your mind.
4. Read a book:
Immerse yourself in a book you enjoy reading for 15 – 30 minutes at the end of each day to switch your mind from an active beta state to a more relaxed alpha state.
5. Play with your children and/or pets:
Children and animals have a very pure and bright energy vibration. Spending time playing with them is not only essential for their emotional well-being, but will also take you to a much happier state of mind as well.
6. Yoga:
Yoga reduces stress by encouraging deep, rhythmic breathing. Doing 15 to 30 minutes of yoga-stretching exercises every day will help to lower your stress levels, relax your muscles, and improve your posture.
It is very important to do enjoyable things every day just for yourself. You will become more happy, more loving, and have much more of yourself to give to others. You deserve to be happy & healthy, so make sure that you are taking good care of yourself everyday, and work towards having a stress-free life.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar ~