Stress Management Stress in small doses can help you develop coping skills for life challenges. Too much stress can make the heart work harder, raise blood cholesterol, trigger headaches, and increase the risk of depression, heart disease and other serious health problems. To help manage stress, follow the tips below. Action Steps:Loosen tense muscles with […]
Stress Management Simple movements help relieve tension. Stress doesn’t only wreak havoc on your mind; it can cause aches and pains in your head, neck, shoulders, and back. Research says that daily stretching can reduce muscle tension, increase blood flow, and improve range of motion and coordination. Stretching safety tips: * Warm up your muscles.
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Stress Management Relax your body and mind with yoga. You don’t have to be like Gumby or Stretch Armstrong to benefit from yoga. This mind-body practice uses physical poses, controlled breathing, and meditation to relax the body and mind and ease the spirit. Health benefits of yoga: Growing evidence shows that yoga may be an
Stress Management Stress is the way you react to any change (good, bad, real, or even imagined). What is Stress? These are ways the body responds to stress: * Pupils dilate (get wider). * Breathing speeds up. * Heart rate speeds up. * Oxygen increases in the blood. * Blood moves to major muscles. *
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Stress Management Connect with your spiritual self. In general, spirituality is a path to finding purpose, meaning, inner peace, and hope in life. It involves your personal values and how you relate to others. For some people, spirituality includes an organized religion with its set of beliefs, symbols, and rituals. For others it is being
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Stress Management Manage your time to help you manage the stress that comes with unfinished business. * Keep a “To Do” list. Use a method that works best for you. Examples are paper post-its, computer software/apps, a daily or weekly planner, and your smartphone. * Prioritize and assign times to complete tasks. Check off ones
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Stress Management Most people expect too much of themselves. Attempts to accomplish too much in a short period of time causes lots of unnecessary stress. The result is something doctors call hurry sickness, a constant state of rushing around trying to meet an endless line-up of self-imposed deadlines. Stress is the inevitable by-product of this
Stress Management * Plant trees and other greenery to add oxygen and help lower carbon dioxide in the air. Replace some lawn with shrubs and trees that shade the house to save on cooling and heating costs. * Create a garden and maintain it. Use manual tools for lawn and garden work, if possible. If
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Stress Management If you’ve ever mentally rehearsed a speech before you gave it, you may already have some idea of how advance playacting can help you prepare for stressful situations. (Athletes, musicians, salespeople, and actors do it all the time.) The idea is to imagine yourself feeling calm and confident in an otherwise stressful situation
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Stress Management Whenever you’re tense, your pulse speeds up, your muscles tighten, your skin perspires, and your hand temperature increases. These changes can be easily monitored by a biofeedback machine, a device that provides “feedback” in the form of sounds or lights that go off in response to the tension and relaxation. Then by doing
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