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| Top Stress Relievers | 1. Breathing Exercises
Deep breathing helps to reduce stress, it oxygenates the blood, provides you with a feeling of refreshment, it relaxes muscles and quiets the mind. Breathing exercises can be done anywhere. Begin with the Karate Breathing Meditation and basic breathing exercise.
2. Meditation
Meditation requires deep breathing and complete frustration. While meditating your brain begins to function like sleep, it leads to the release of hormones and the maintainance of health. When you concentrate on achieving obstruction from everything, your stress level will lessen.
During meditation you should place yourself in a comfortable position. You may sit on a cushion, on the floor or in a chair. See that your feet touch the ground, you may also put a stool under your feet if it is required. It is advised to have your hands palm-down on your thighs or knees. There are some suggestions that energy flow through the body is better in an upright position.
3. Guided Imagery
It needs some time for practice, it helps to get rid of stress and relax your body. It is easier comparing with meditation, because it is easier to focus on ‘something’ than on “nothing”. Listen to natural sounds as the background for a better result.
Guided imagery is used to lessen stress, it includes physical relaxation of the body. It is very beneficial and it one can use it together with treatment. Using an imagery tape, the participants of quided imagery session relax completely; all of the senses relax too. A relaxing scene is recommended. They can ask and answer questions of their imaginery guide that is present in their mind. Participants get in touch with deeper levels of wisdom that are present on a subconscious level. Imagery helps you to obtain deep relaxation, provides you with insight and wisdom. Such practice of relaxation and stress reduction can be performed anywhere. Such practice need practice and demands costs necessary for the services of a professional therapist or tapes. Guided imagery is easier comparing with exercises or yoga. The risk of having side effects is excluded. Comparing with progressive muscle relaxation or breathing exercises, it needs more practice. If you compare it with self-hypnosis, you do not need to focus on ideas that are available in your subconscious mind, you focus on ideas that are apart from it.
4. Visualizations
It is connected with guided imagery, during which you imagine yourself achieving purposes like being rich and famous. It is recommended to visualize yourself on purposes you want to achieve.
5. Self-hypnosis
Self-hypnosis may connect the elements of guided imagery and visualizations, you make your subconsciousness to enhance your abilities, to give up bad habits, to relieve pain, have healthy habits, and even find a solution! You need some practice and training, but it really works.
6. Exercise
Many people exercise for weight control and maintaining physical and physical health. It is used to distruct from stressful situations. Exercise maintain our spirits via the release of endorphins.
The reasons for exercises’ use are:
1. Exercise releases tension that is available in the body.
2. Exercise releases emotional tension.
3. Exercise releases endorphins and promotes a feeling of wellbeing and self-esteem.
4. Exercise helps to maintain health and wellbeing, it reduces stress.
5. Exercise makes you social, lessen stress and leads to meditation.
7. Progressive Muscle Relaxation
After tensing and relaxing of all the muscle groups in the body we feel tension followed with relaxation. It does not demand special training or equipment. Tense all the muscles in your face for ten seconds, then completely relax them for ten seconds. Do the same with your neck, shoulders, etc. Such practice can be done in any place, relaxing and lessening quickly and easily.
8. Sex
It is interesting to know that sex helps to relieve tension. Unfortunately, people avoid sex when they have high stress levels.
9. Music
Music therapy is very good for health, it helps to get rid of mild (like stress) to severe (like cancer) health problems. The right music can reduce your blood pressure, stress level, relax your body and mind. Use various kinds of music as effective stress management.
10. Yoga
Yoga is as old as over 5 thousand years! It unites the practices of such stress management techniques as breathing, meditation, imagery and movement. It's necessary for physical health and flexibility.
11. Cognitive Puzzles
Crossword puzzles or working on other thinking games is a kind of ‘brain exercise’ that leads to focused concentration and mental stimulation. You need distraction for such brain exercises.
12. Cognitive Restructuring
It is performed when you place yourself in a situation that differs from your usual life. You may play the role of a therapist. You change the way you usually look at things during this technique.
13. Karate
It is necessary to develop self-discipline, get rid of frustration and tension, and feel safety and defense.
14. Swimming
It is necessary to get in shape, refreshen and relax.
15. Walking
Walk during your lunch break, in the morning before having a shower, etc. While walking you can leave all your problems and meditate.
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