Stress awareness month, heh.... I definitely had my fill of stress this month! I recently read an article about how to feel better when you're stressed and thought I would share some of the tips:
1. Calm Down: Before anything else, calm yourself down. Do not panic. Close your eyes and take a deep breath.
2. Feed Your Mind with Positive Thoughts: it's easy to fall into a vicious cycle of negative thoughts - break the cycle. Feed your mind with positive thoughts - read spiritual texts, motivational books or inspiring quotes.
3. Remember Good Things: remember the good things in your life, remember the good people around you.
4. Look at the Big Picture: put the stressful event in context.
5. Believe that Everything will be OK: what you believe has a big effect on you - if you think things will go wrong, they just might. On the other hand, if you think things will be OK, they just might.
6. Exercise: exercise relieves the symptoms of depression and anxiety.
7. Forgive: Forgive yourself or someone else.
8. Take Action: Things won't get better if you do nothing.
9. Say Something Positive: Whenever you are about to say something negative, stop yourself and take a deep breath and make it positive.
10. Think About Other People: Take the focus away from yourself. Think about other people and how you can help them.
(Thanks to Dermascope for including that in the April 2010 issue.)
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