Day To Day Stress Tips

• Leave Your Work At Work – It’s important to not bring work home. Home is your sanctuary and that means no work at home.
• Get A Quality Night’s Sleep – Sleep restores your body so getting quality sleep is important to your well being and health of your body. It’s best to set a sleep schedule and follow it. This means not sleeping in on the weekends or staying up late.
• Take Frequent “Me” Breaks At Work – Whenever possible take a few minutes for yourself during work. This could mean doing a few deep breathing exercises, drinking some tea or doing a few yoga poses. The more “me” breaks you take, the better you will be able to deal with stress.
• Learn To Delegate Tasks – One of the big mistakes we make is to take on more than we can which will leave us anxious, overwhelmed and stressed out. Instead, it’s best to delegate tasks to co-works, family members or who ever to help you accomplish the day’s tasks.

Stress In The Workplace

Stress comes in many forms at work. It can be anywhere from deadlines to social riffs or asking for a potential raise. Whatever the case, stress can creep up so you need to be on the lookout for any type of stress. If you find that stress is overtaking your day, use these simple techniques to quell any stress.

Stress Suggestions In The Workplace

• Take A Micro Break – if anything you do, take frequent mini breaks of 2-3 minutes. Close your eyes and stop thinking about work. Take a few deep breaths and then re-focus back on work.
• Do Simple Yoga – Stretching your arms or legs in a chair or on the floor will help alleviate stress and increase blood flow.
• Take A Walk – Instead of sitting during your 15 min breaks, go outside and take a brisk walk. Over time this little bit of exercise will help with any mental or physical stress you may have.

5 Proven Ways To Combat Stress

1. Mediation – Meditation will allow you to control your state of panic by inhibiting adrenaline in your system. The use of music to meditate is extremely effective.
2. Exercise – Even though you may not feel like running around, it really does help in alleviate stress. Taking a brisk walk or little jog in the fresh air does wonders for your body. Exercising increases neurotransmitters in the pleasure centers and helps fight off adrenaline.
3. Massage – The simple act of a massage releases tension on your muscles and soothes your aching body. Use a little soothing music and aroma filling body oils to set the mood. Have your husband or boyfriend to massage you. This heightened sexual tension is great to help fight off stress.
4. Eating – In high stressful situations, many people stave off food. This is a big mistake. Food gives energy to your body and well help diminish that butterflies in the stomach feeling. Just eating a piece of fruit in the morning, a salad at lunch and a sandwich for dinner is enough to sustain you during this high stress time.
5. Aromatherapy – The smell of aromatherapy candles really puts people in a different state. It’s been known that lavender soothes your body and emotions.

Stress causes your body to go into flight or fight mode and pumps your body of adrenaline and cortisone. This overworks your adrenal glands which can cause you to become on edge and later tired and listless.

It’s nearly impossible to avoid stress but there are ways to lessen the effects. One great way is aromatherapy. Aromatherapy uses your sense of smell to relax your brain and adrenal glands and soothe your mind. Certain smells from oils bring about certain feelings.

When you use aromatherapy, make sure you are in a quiet relaxing room of the house such as your bedroom or bathroom. Take a few deep breaths before lighting any aromatherapy candles or aromatherapy oils. As you continue to deep breathe, let the smell absorb your senses and let your mind wander to where it wants to go. Doing this will alleviate any tension you may harbor on your back.

Some common oils to soothe the mind and relax the body include, but are not limited to,
- lavender
- sandalwood
- chamomile
- nutmeg
- neroli
- orange

Explore your senses tonight!