How to Overcome Our Mental Stress : Ideal step to reduce it

13^thJanuary, 2013, Hyderabad, India – Stress is a natural and unavoidable feature of modern life. When the pressures of life become too much and we can’t cope, stress operates like a screw gradually turning tighter and tighter. Often we don’t realize that we are under stress – until the pressure becomes too much. It is when we spend too much of our time in a state of high stress that our health begins to suffer. When this happens, our bodies will begin to show some of the characteristic symptoms of high Stress.

Symptoms of Stress include –

• ·         Tense muscles , shoulders and back
• ·         Insomnia
• ·         Fatigue
• ·         Boredom and Listlessness
• ·         Depression
• ·         Abuse of alcohol, Cigarettes, or Other substances.
• ·         Eating too much or too little
• ·         Diarrhea, gas, constipation
• ·         Palpitations – heart skip
• ·         Phobias
• ·         Tics, restlessness, itching

·         Worrying about any symptoms we might have can also to our stress

Stress can’t be eliminated so it should be managed. Managing Stress is an important aspect of every individual’s life. First identify the unrelieved Stress and then work towards changing the source of Stress.

Possible actions plans are as follows:-

  

1.    Exercise regularly: A healthy, flexible busy makes for a healthy alert mind.

• 2.    Keep busy: This tasks our mind off the problem.
• 3.    Relax: Take time relax, meditate and visualize.
• 4.    Positive Mental attitude: Keeping a positive mental attitude will overcome our stress.
• 5.    Balanced diet: We must have in our diet healthy foods: fruits, fresh vegetables and Vitamins B and C. We must cut down on caffeine and nicotine; both these are drugs that build up our resistance.
• 6.    Communicate with a person close to us: We should open our heart to those nearest and dearest to us. We must set aside specific times to communicate and talk honestly to share our thoughts, worries, feelings, dreams, disappointments and problems.
• 7.    Let go of our emotions: It’s natural and will help the healing process.
• 8.    Pray to God: If we are religious or a spiritual person we can for the answers to our stress problem.
• 9.    Keeping sense of human and trying to be happy.

These actions will reduce the intensity of emotional reactions over a period of time slow, deep breathings will bring heart rate and respiration back to normal.

Relaxation techniques can reduce muscle tensions. Eat well-balanced, nutrition’s meals or diets. Get enough sleep. Pursue realistic goals. Which are meaningful to us, rather the goals others have for us that we do not share.

 Inspiring Quotes of Swami Vivekananda:-

  “ What ever you think that you will be, if you will be if you think yourselves weak, weak you will be: if you think yourselves strong”.

“Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man. Strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don’t bother your head with religious theories, cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind”.

“Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected”.

“No one step back, that is the idea…. Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us!…. What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards…. Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune”.