Tips on How to Handle Pressure and Stress
A collaborative work by High-Advanced students at Pimmit School
· Having a Support team
· Delegating and relying on others
· Recalling happy moments
· Maintaining a sense of humor
· Talking about stress
· Walking
· Accepting the stress or Ignoring the stress
· Thinking positively
· Drinking and eating
· Figuring out how to react
· Staying calm
· Talking to people who you trust
· Putting stressors into perspectives
· Meditating
· Doing your favorite activities
· Praying
· Trying to be confident.
· Altering your environment.
· Having hobbies.
· Pampering your-self.
· Scheduling your time.
· Renewing self image.
· Letting it be.
· Playing games with people you like.
· Figuring out something for refresh.
· Getting into self- hypnosis.
· Driving and concentrating.
· Watching the kid’s happiness.
· Running and lifting weights or doing yoga
· Staying away from e-mail and phone for a period.
· Getting up early and running.
· Working out on a regular basis.
· Getting disconnected when I take off.
· Enjoying with family.
· Sharing the feelings with others trough blog.
· Cheering up myself.
· Taking a rest.
Types of SPA and massages
· Stress relief massage
· Sauna and steam room
· Aromatherapy massage
· Swedish massage
· Hot and cold stone
· Golf massage
· Half massage
· Beauty products
· Heat experience
· Experience shower
· Series of cold and hot treatments
· Therapeutic massage with herbal medicine
· Thai massage
· The clothed massage
· Well trained and experienced therapist is essential
· Cheap and quick(I prefer long) massage
Foods that might help
· Citrus –the vitamin C prevent the release of the stress hormone cortical and help to
Make lower blood pressure
· Walnuts-Many omega-3 fatty acids in walnuts can reduce blood pressure and stress.
· Dark Chocolate-can reduce cortisol levels as well as catecholamine in highly stressed individuals. Can reduce blood pressure and improved mood.
· Black tea – dropping cortisol.
Pay someone to do it
· There are many professional organizers and errand
· Runners who can help you to plan your schedule
Reboot Your Brain
· Meditating in the same spot
· Controlling your inhalations and exhalations.
· Making your own mantra.
· Keeping your mind focused on your breath.
Quick Moves
· Stretching 10 minutes before getting out of the bed
· Do a spinal twist setting on a chair
· Lay down on your back with legs up against the wall for 3 to 5 minutes
· Try putting tongue on the roof of your mouth
· Taking a moment and getting out of your chair a few times a day to realign your neck and upper back muscles
· Making shoulders rolls
· Breath properly
· Squatting using dumbbell
· Punching and twisting your hips
Mind Workouts
· NIA: A lively cardio workout to music, combining dance, martial arts, and yoga
· HYPNOSIS: An altered state of mind from the waking state where you’re worried
· ACUPUNCTURE: The practice of inserting needles into points on the body to relieve ailments
· TAICHI : A series of choreographed poses , turning and extending the body, shifting one’s weight.
· QIGONG : An ancient Chinese healing art, repetitive movements with controlled breathing to stimulate the flow of QI within the body
· BIOFEEDBACK: A way to measure the body’s responses to stress and learn to control them
· REFLEXOLOGY: Points in the feet and hands correspond to organs and glands in the body
Take a Chill Pill
· Today there are many “benzos” (medication to control stress) that doctors prescribe to treat anxiety.
· Physicians are loath to use them long term because they can be addicted.
· Every person reacts differently to antidepressants, but gain weight and low libido are possible side effects.
· Psychiatrists caution that all of these medications should be coupled with counseling.
