How To Overcome Stress

How To Overcome stress

In my last blog, we discussed about the impact of stress in our life. How the younger generation is much more impacted with stress and mental health issues.  Now we are going to give you information based on real facts and researches that can help you overcome stress. And if you are not stressed then it will keep stress away from your life.

The most important thing is to live in present. Let me explain here, most of the stress is because of our thoughts related to future or past in our life.  So first thing what we have to do is to stop overthinking which causes stress in our present life.

 

Second thing is to do our karma without thinking of the results.  We should tell ourselves that we are not going to lose our peace no matter whatever the results are positive or negative.  We are not letting anything to destroy our peace.

Now here is the main thing. Everything resides in our mind. It’s a strongest weapon that human being can ever have. But the main thing is only few people can control its power. So instead of letting your brain to control you, better you learn to control it as per your needs. Our third method to overcome stress is to control your mind.  It’s very common and everyone knows about it. We called it mediation. Yes meditation helps you to overcome stress and also gives you a new way of living life.  There are many blogs and videos that can guide you How to do meditation.

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Start to spend some time with yourself. Give at least 20 minutes to yourself in a day with no phone calls, no internet, no any friend or relative around you. Get some fresh air in the morning. Try to go in a park or garden.  Walk on the grass barefooted. Feel the dew drops on your feet. Inhale the fresh air. You can also meditate in the park or garden that will be great. But, if not then simply spend some time alone in the nature. Nature is the best remedy for your mental illness or stress.

Spend time with kids, that will definitely make you smile and let your forget your problems for at least few minutes. Play with them, be like kids and laugh like them.

Sit close to your parents and grandparents. Go and talk to them. Tell them what how was your day, ask them how was there day. Make jokes of others. This will helps in maintaining peace and love within family which directly makes you stress free. Give importance to each and every member of you family.

Most importantly do what you are passionate about. In our daily life very few people are following the passion.  It’s truth that our daily busy schedules are make us so much tired that we can’t even have much time to do things what we love.  But, instead of wasting time on internet and television we must make time to follow our passion. If you are passionate for playing any sport then go and start playing for at least one hour a day. It will not only make you happy but also lets your body release chemicals in your body that will help you to release stress and makes healthy.

Make sure do some noble works for humanity like charity food, clothes and other things which can change the life of some needy people. This will make you feel alive from inside. You will feel happy and good from inside.

Keeps distance from harmful things like drugs, smoking or regular drinking? These things will not going to solve your problem in anyway. So better do these things occasionally not daily or habitually.

One other important thing that you can do is to read any good book which gives you positive vibes. You must read at least 15 minutes before going to sleep.  This will not only help you to get better sleep but also makes you more positive for the next day. There’s a scientific reason ne3hind this. If you make an habit of reading good books before going to bed that thing will make an positive impact on your mind. It helps you to forget all the negative things what happened in the whole day and makes you feel positive for the next morning.

Keep these things in you daily practice and I am surethat will improve your life. Feel free to ask anything. If you have any other ideas that can hels to control stress, then please share with us.

Impact Of Stress In Our life

What is stress? Any idea? Well I am sure you all know all about stress. Yes, I am not talking about the physical pressure on any object. Here, I am talking about the mental pressure. Yes, mental stress. A state of mental or emotional strain caused due to our surroundings or habits.

 In this competitive world, everyone is facing a little or more stress in his life. Someone is stressed due to his/her job or work, someone is stressed because of his family issues.

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Someone is stressful due to broken heart. I mean, almost every second person in this world is stressful due to one or other issues. But the question is do we need to get stressed? What are its impact on our daily life and health?

Recent studies has come to a conclusion that almost 89% of the youth is stressed due to one or other reasons which is almost doubled than the last decade.

Why the youth is getting impacted by this much more than the older people?

To know the answer, University of  California did a survey on two teams of different age group. In this survey, one team has 10 members of age age group 20-30 and in other team 10 members of age group 35-50.  Research authorities monitored there daily routines especially diet and work environment for 15 days.

And the results were very unimaginable.   Why not you guy’s guess which team was better?   Well, I’ll tell you the result. As we previously thought that the team with the age group  20-30 should be happy then the other team. But, the result was totally opposite.  Beside of having a good lifestyle and economic health people with younger age group were more stressful and depressed from their life.

Most of the people were taking help of alcohol or other things to remove their stress.  This thing ruins their health and put them in more worst condition with passing time. Where as team with older age group was seems to be more relaxed and happy from their life. They were earning well, living life with many family responsibilities still happy and little satisfied. They were spending times with their families in the evening instead of spending them outsiders. Most importantly they were not regular drinkers or chain smokers like the younger team. Team with old age group were seems to be much relaxed instead of having much more troubles related to families and health or work as compared to younger group.

May be this is because of their maturity with time or their capability to adapt changes easily. So hope we know now, what we are doing with our life. Problems are part of our life but instead of getting stressed with this and make bad habits of regular drinking and smoking, we should try to live with peace and give priority to our Personal Care Products . In our next topic I will bring you the techniques to overcome the stress and live peacefully.