Managing Stress

How to Relieve Stress

 

Identify your triggers

Once you know where your stress is coming from—a relationship, kids, workload, a health problem—you can sometimes reduce or prevent the stress. Even if changing the trigger isn’t possible, a shift in perspective may help mitigate stress.

Stay connected

Maintaining, improving, and increasing healthy relationships with supportive friends and family powerfully promotes resilience. Many find that connections with a faith family, neighbors, and even pets, help them feel positive and energetic, even if children and grandchildren aren’t close at hand.

Stay active

Physical activity releases feel-good endorphins. Taking short walking breaks several times a day is a powerful tool for channeling stress. Exercising or joining yoga, dance, or tai chi classes with friends also helps achieve step 2—staying connected.

Find your “pause” button

“After experiencing times of great change, high demand, or significant loss, it’s essential to press pause and rest. Often creating time and space for rest means saying “no” to invitations and requests for help, at least temporarily,” says Callahan. Consider spending quiet time daily: contemplation, reflection, and breathing fosters resilience and calm.

Plan your fun

To prevent the daily rush from consuming your life, plan your fun — activities that suit you — for the day, week, month, or year.

Reframe your thinking about stress itself

Stress responses, including faster heart rate and breathing, evolved to improve our performance in stressful situations. Reminding yourself of stress’s evolutionary value may improve your performance and paradoxically reduce feelings of stress, in that you’re not adding “stress about stress” to the stress the original trigger aroused

Tips on managing stress eating:  https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/tips-to-manage-stress-eating

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