Stress Management is the ability to maintain control when situations, people, and events make excessive demands. None of the stress management techniques that we look at today will require expensive materials and fortunately, stress management is largely a learnable skill.
Simple stress reduction suggestions, including diet and good nutrition, no junk food and lots of fresh unprocessed foods. Exercise and physical fitness are also top on the list; frequent exercise is probably one of the best physical stress-reduction techniques available.
Art can be a wonderful tool in the use of stress reduction, one that comes to mind is mosaic torn paper collages; when you are doing this art project you are using all of your mental senses and tend to not dwell on the things you are stressed out about and when you are finished with the art piece you have created a personal piece of art that gives you personal satisfaction.
Cognitive-behavioral techniques such as, imagery is a powerful method of stress reduction, when combined with physical relaxation methods such as deep breathing; learn and experience yoga techniques for dealing with crisis situations; self-awareness; meditation; Qi-gong; EFT; ionic detox foot baths and many more. These are all simple, easy and are all very effective.
Learning to manage time effectively may help a person to control stress. You also need to be well aware of stress symptoms in order to wisely manage your pace in moving to your goals. Handle each task as it comes, or deal with matters in some priority of like which has to be done today and then let the rest go. Like they say, don’t sweat the small stuff.
The secret is to not only treat the symptoms of stress but to eliminate the cause. As a very wise individual once said, “Managing stress is like weeding your garden you can never get rid of the weeds completely, but you can keep them under control.” When you’re less stressed, you enjoy life more. As you learn and practice these techniques, your stress levels will decrease and your mind and body will become calm and centered.