5 Effective Ways To Reduce Your Stress

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

5 Effective Ways To Reduce Your Stress
(with permission from: http://sane-ramblings.blogspot.com/2012/04/5-effective-tips-to-reduce-your-stress.html)

Stress reduction is crucial to your health and well-being and what follows are 5 effective and easy to use ways to slash your stress and make you feel far better as you seek greater happiness in your life.

1) Take a walk. Get away from the pressures of your day if only for 10 minutes. A walk will let you clear your head, exercise your body and it may even stimulate some new ideas to help you accomplish more.

2) Drink water. Keep the water bottle handy so you can easily cleanse your body of its waste and keep it functioning at peak levels. By contrast, caffeine loaded drinks are unhealthy and can make you more jittery.

3) Delete non-essential email. You have enough to accomplish without being distracted and having your time wasted by meaningless email.

4) Turn off negative television shows hours before bedtime. News shows and investigative reports are usually based on everything bad the producers can find. This will only detract from your sleep and it will take you longer to fall asleep. Rest assured, bad news is almost always willing to await you, you don't have to seek it out before you attempt to go to sleep.

5) Meditate. This is the most important of today's 5 ways to reduce your stress and it is so easy to do. Take 10 minutes out of your day, lay down and relax your muscles and rest your spine. Then close your eyes and breathe deeply, inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth, as you clear your mind. After 10 minutes you will feel calm, refreshed and ready to make the most of your life.

Dear reader, follow these 5 effective stress reducing ways and they will do wonders for you as they have me.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Aside from that

don't worry about things over which you have no direct control : just wears you out thinking about them.

And avoid affairs with married women.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

2. If You're married...

avoiding all affairs would result in less stress.

[saras]

7. Proof that life has other values than reducing stress

Elvis Costello once confessed to stirring up trouble in his relationships in order to have material to write about.

[flamingdem]

9. Are married men okay?

[Blue_Tires]

3. i don't do #5 enough

[Egalitarian Thug]

4. Edit #4. Turn off the television. n/t

[H2O Man]

5. Recommended.

"Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream ...." -- John Lennon

[Gregorian]

6. Quit your job and move away from the city.

You can add those two things to the list that I already follow. Yet stress keeps tagging along. There isn't much I want in life. But there's a lot of stuff I don't want.

To me the biggest things are those we don't want. At least in a modern society. Noise pollution, light pollution. We can't always turn those off.

[A Simple Game]

8. 6) Get out of GD or Politics and go to the Lounge at least 30 minutes before going to bed.

MFM I miss you, hurry back.