Relaxation Tips: Try this to reduce stress!

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October 30, 2016, 12:05 pm

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Relaxation techniques can reduce stress symptoms and help you enjoy a better quality of life! Relaxation is a process that decreases the effects of stress on your mind and body. Im sure when life gets crazy and we get hit with a bunch of things all at once, our relaxation techniques get put at the bottom of our lists.

Here are some ways to relax and reduce stress...
Deep breathing
Hypnosis
Massage
Meditation
Tai chi (Chinese martial arts and form of meditative exercise)
Yoga
Music and art therapy

Along with those here are some other techniques:
Autogenic relaxtion (You repeat words or suggestions in your mind to relax and reduce muscle tension)
Progessive muscle relaxtion (In this one, you focus on slowly tensing and then relaxing each muscle group)
Visualization (you form mental images to take a visual journey to a peaceful, calming place or situation)

Cant wait to try some of these techniques to help lessen my stress and help focus on my mental health! Hope you all enjoy!

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Lynne

Lynne

Ermini2 I do something for stress relief that really helps me so much. It is a mediation of sorts I guess?

Lie flat on your back, close your eyes and try to relax for a while, let your mind drift. After about 5 minutes focus on your body, where the stress is. See if you can find where you are holding your stress.

Then start right at the top of your body bit by bit with tensing and then relaxing.

So make your whole body relaxed and then scrunch up your forehead,your eyes, your ears and mouth as tight as you can and hold it there for a while and really feel it. Then relax it.

Then focus on just your shoulders, tense them up and hold it there... then release.

Do this all the way down your body finishing with your toes.

Afterwards feel what a difference that makes to your body and your mind Relaxation Tips: Try this to reduce stress!

Relaxation Tips: Try this to reduce stress!

10 years ago

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ermini2

ermini2

oh wow, i think ill have to try that soon. sounds like a pretty good way to reduce some stress and relax! thanks Lynne!

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Lynne

Lynne

It works so well for me, especially before bed if I am all worked up!

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CryptoGuru

CryptoGuru

Well when it comes to stress my life is affected by it on a daily basis. I have so much going on in terms of business and family stuff that i cannot avoid being stressed out everyday. Some days it causes chest pains and other things. I do not know how to properly cope with my stress and its hard to find time to unwind and relax. I need to try some of these things because if i don't do something im going to die of a heart attack by the time im 30. Every little thing gets to me and i have really bad days and can go into a violent rage if it gets super bad. I also have anger issues so both hand in hand are the recipe for disaster. I have this bad pain in my chest i know its a muscle thing so im going to try a muscle relaxing technique tonight. Thank you for sharing this one will really help me.

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augusta

augusta

Awesome writeup,I really need this now that I have been so stressed from work for a while now.For me when I'm stressed I do more of sleeping to regain energy, strength and look fresh.

I will try the listed ideas and see how it goes.

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saygorem

saygorem

Thanks for this post. I am very stressed by work and doing home chores but I see to it that I give myself a time to take a nap and relax a little bit after work. When I am watching tv to relax, what happens is I get more stressed by the programs in tv now. So I refrain from watching long hours of tv series and movie to lessen stress.

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Heatman6190

Heatman6190

This is definitely a good tips on how to relax and relieve oneself of stress. I basically take up meditation, massage, music and yoga in my bid to have complete relaxed mind with little or no stress at all.

Long stress if not controlled or managed might end up being very bad for ones health. It would give one an unending migraines which would cause serious hallucinations in some serious cases. So I definitely admonish people to try and get involved in stuffs that helps relive you of stress of body and mind.

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overcast

overcast

I think Meditation and relaxation apps are the best approach here. You can try some of the apps like Maya Mindfulness and Calm. Those two apps are good enough in many ways. You can see that there are times when such apps can be used to get the stress off. Always keep yourself into the mood of the "mindfulness". Remember where you are and what you're going to do. And that's how you're going to get to solve the problem.

I think it takes time to reduce the stress. But with the cognitive behavior therapy and the mindfulness. And that's the thing about the part where to reducing stress is something one can see. So take slowly and one thing at a time.

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Blank629

Blank629

Thank you for the tips you given. I will definitely try this. I always have a stress due to work and my transportation because my house is far from my work. With this, I hope I find my solution to my problem about stress. And I will try to tell this kind of relaxation to somebody who needs it.

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Pixie06

Pixie06

I have tried meditation, massage and yoga and can say that they work wonders. However I don't really have much time for yoga now. I listen to meditating music mostly everyday. This helps me feel relaxed and also helps to clear my mind. The good thing is that there are so many meditating music which one can download for free from the internet. Moreover there are also many self guided meditation videos available on YouTube.

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Destiny00

Destiny00

Making art can be so therapeutic. I also find that yoga helps me to de-stress; and I really love the physical aspect of it. Deep breathing helps me when I am in the situation, yoga is preventative, and art therapy helps with processing feelings.

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chrisbarett

chrisbarett

For a long while, I slept very badly at night because the bed was not comfortable and that's why my back of my neck started to hurt a lot. At first, I didn't pay attention and I was just trying to forget but it didn't help. A friend of mine advised me not to wait but to go to Thai massage and get rid of this problem. Of course, I listened to her and tried. The effect was amazing. In just a few procedures the pain disappeared and I started sleeping well. I tried several types of massages there, one of the best was foot massage. Has anyone here tried Thai massage? How was your experience?

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UgrozaVeka

UgrozaVeka

Stress is a very common situation in which many people are and unfortunately few can evade this and our society is full of such persons and it is sad. I also was in such a situation and I know how hard it is so I can totally understand you. What helped me was red vein borneo kratom and I know that it is not so ok that I didn't manage to find another solution but this is life, everyone has the right to do what he/she wants. The most important thing is that it helped me and I didn't get addicted.

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chrisbarett

chrisbarett

Never heard of it. Maybe it's worthy a try.

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PoisonJay

PoisonJay

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PenelopeEll

PenelopeEll

Thanks for your advices! I used to smoke when I was a teenager and wanted to seem cool to my classmates. I wanted to be a real dangerous guy. I smoked vape, marijuana, cigars and cigarettes. My parents have smoked for over 40 years and I saw them with cigarettes in their mouths my whole childhood. What's strangest, it made me uncomfortable as a preschooler. I was ashamed that my parents had bad habits. I don't remember exactly when I stopped smoking. It probably happened after I discovered kratom bali red. It helped me to normalize my sleep, eliminate depressive disorders and anxiety. I didn't need cigarettes anymore for relax

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AmandaSwon

AmandaSwon

I would choose this list:

meditation
massage
magic mushrooms
walks

This all helps me a lot to get rid of stress or just tension.

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