Coping with stress
The benefits of exercise,meditation,yoga,relaxation & laughter in reducing stress have been documented.But these are the ways of reducing stress after it has occurred.It is equally important to understand how to prevent stress-to make you resilient & better equipped to respond to change without developing stress. what is needed is the ability to accept change as a challange.
Right attitudes & thinking are the key.What is possible is the ability to learn to be hardy instead of helplessness in the face of any change or challenge.How should we prevent the stress response from getting aroused?Remember it is not the situation which causes worry & stress,but how you perceive it and also how you react to it -it is all in mind .While you can mould your mind to make yourself resilient & adaptable ,the filp side is that it is not as easy as it sounds.How we behave or think is dependent on our conditioning ,which in turn is based on our life-experiences & social values.
The best ways to go about is
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Become aware of your bad habits i.e. the stress-provoking behaviours or thoughts.
- Replace these behaviours with those that tend not to provoke such responses.
- Awareness-since it is often difficult to recognise or be aware of our own thoughts or the behaviour which are stress-provoking,we should try & pay attention to the signals emanating from our body-pain,discomfort or any abnormal sensations.These signals are the result of the stress response being provoked by faulty thought-processes or behaviours.
However if you start feeling the pressure,nip it in the bud with few stress-busting exercises.
Relax from head to toe........
Stretch away stress.......
Get physical exercise.....
Massage magic.....
Meditation matters.......
pranayam(breathing exercise).....
