How To Manage Stress?

 

Stress can be defined as a body reaction toward any response exposed to the body on the psychological, physical, or mental levels. It is a normal process through which the body is trying to agree with pressure. Controlling stress starts in identifying life’s stressors, and exactly how to have an overlook on your action towards daily stress level. Even if your life is seems stressful, but some steps can be used to release your stress and depression. Stress is released due to routine life imposed on the individual, and can be managed by several manners such as; psychologically, physically, and socially.

      Firstly, pressure can be reduced psychologically by personal effort. So, the person can manage stress by following some daily issues that calm the soul. For example managing diet which means eating healthy food where sugar level will be normal in the body. Also, thinking positively will relax your brain. Medicinal rubbing or making massage, maintain praying and obligate faith relaxes the body psychologically and feeds the soul.

As well as, taking an extended period of recreation especially when it is spent away from home, or in traveling which makes the individuals feel that they are born again (Staley, 2013 ). Sleeping everyday almost 30 minutes decrease from your depression. Furthermore, determining some aims and working to achieve it, taking some minutes of silence daily, and changing lifestyle in a way that suits your psychological life. If work is balanced in a limited way; this will control your anger. Also changing in home decoration helps in avoiding routine that is surrounding you. Moreover, listening to music and pet breeding helps in enjoying free time .Thus, all of this will manage your stress psychologically.

      Secondly, some physical exercises may control stress. Thus, exercising leads to physical comfort of depression. The best stress reliever is exercising. It releases “endorphins” which is a hormone that makes you feel better, and distracts from daily worries. Focusing on emotional sensations while exercising will help in breaking out of the cycle of negative thoughts (Robinson, Smith, M.A., & Segal, 2018). Also it will take the soul to another world where the body will release all the negative signals that helps in stress. Therefore, stress will be released.

Although exercises and sports are part of medication for people that suffers from boredom and overwork; for sure it gives positive results. Many psychiatrists prescribed first for their patients exercising and sports as a medicine to comfort nerves and get rid of stress and depression. In addition, exercising improves the mood, and then you will enjoy physical and psychological comfort since in following exercising daily or weekly, you will have a slim and healthy body, also psychologically you are restful. Although it helps you to get sleep that was interrupted because of tension, fatigue, and anxiety.

Some exercises that can be suggested: running and walking in places that have beautiful views, swimming with friends in tourist resorts, dancing while listening music, rowing, and climbing hills and mountains.Therefore, following these exercises helps in losing weight, having a healthy and compatible body; indeed this will comfort the body and improve self-confidence.

     Thirdly, stress can be hold socially by building social networks. Being in contact face-to-face with friends relieves stress. Moreover, having conversations with a good listener will flatter your trust and strength your bond. By building a network of close friends can improve your elasticity, or the ability to recover from sadness and failure to cope with life’s stressors (Robinson L. , Smith, M.A., & Segal, Stress Management, 2018).

Sometimes close friends become as brothers or sisters, since they give all the attention for your sadness and anxiety.Therefore, each one should have a group of close friends even though if they are your sisters or brothers because nobody can help you as they can do.

“Suzanne Hird” in her article “HOW TO MANAGE STRESS” explains that “…such a manner would lay out the problem in a civil, formal fashion that cannot be ignored. This approach, she says, is most likely to yield an acceptable solution” (Hird S. , 2015).

 Thus, having friends and relationships with others will make you feel that you are not alone, and people you know love you. Because of that they will listen, help, and encourages you. They will always try to make you happy; also they will help you to get out from the atmosphere of sadness.

    In conclusion, stress is a natural state that every human being passes through it because of tension, effort, over thinking and pressure. The most important thing for people that are suffering from stress and depression, they shouldn’t give up because they will suffer later from other psychological problems. Therefore, when some symptoms appear, try to read about what should you do, or ask a psychological doctor that helps you in following some tips daily, and finally stress will be managed.

 

References:

http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=6abe392a-995c-4b86-9905-811f4a1dfdb1%40pdc-v-sessmgr01&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=101798310&db=a9h (Hird S. , 2015)

https://counseling.uiowa.edu/self-help/stress-management-strategies/ (Staley K. , 2013)

https://www.helpguide.org/articles/stress/stress-management.htm (Robinson, L., Smith, M., M.A., & Segal, R. ,2018)