In our day to day life we come across several things which makes our mood happy and jolly while some makes us sad. About 55% of population has moderate to severe levels of stress in which 12% has stress due to demands and goals which are unreasonable or unachievable in their set period of time which they cannot achieve or acquire.
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Habits to Maintain Stress Level to Normal
People are unable to respond appropriately with increased stress problems. They don't know proper ways to tackle this, however everything is under their control. Stress hugely impacts the life of an individual, due to increased stress and tension ones efficiency is reduced his/her personal life is also effected which includes regular fights, improper communication and lack of understanding too.
Immediate occurence of stress can be seen in form of headaches and high blood pressure. In severe cases continuous stress level can put an individual into depression. Doing regular physical exercise, yoga, meditation, cardio workouts, normal breathing exercises like Anloma pranayam (In yoga) can hugely reduces the increased levels of stress and that too quickly. Satisfaction is the biggest thing believing in what you have loving yourself for your capabilities can build huge trust on oneself. This will motivate an individual. Thus he/she will not face any problem of stress in his/her life.
Tips to Maintain Mental Stress Level
Eating too much junk and oily food during a period of continuous stress will not only increase this stress level but increases our body weight. This is very harmful for our health so eating healthy food is good to reduce this stress. Eating white bread and drinking Alcohol during stress also adds fat to our body thus increasing our weight. Stressed situation in family, workplace, friend circle, between couples can put an individual into depression causing several health problems. Extreme stress condition should not be ignored and one should take medical help in such cases.
During acute stress alot of chronic disease can occur whose symptoms are visible and can be easily identified. Actue stress for many days can lead several health issues like headaches, heart disease, insomnia, joint pain, ageing. If this disease is not treated it may last for several years. One should monitor their health if they remain in stressed condition for whole day.
What to Do?
As we know that Hypertension followed by CAD (Coronary Artery Disease) is the major health issue which occurs from continuous Stress. Regular exercise is the most important tool to fight this issue. If one is not comfortable in doing exercises they can go for morning or evening walk atleast 4-5 times a week. This helps in proper blood circulation leading to lower release of stress hormones. Also one should avoid living in a company of people filled with negative thoughts. Spending time with friends and family members which motivates and support us are the ways to reduce this stress level. Other things include hiking, trekking, fishing, mountaineering etc completely changes the mood towards the positive aspects of life thus helping alot in reducing high level of stress.
One should understand the cause of stress and things which triggers it. This will inculcate problem solving attitude within an individual and also reduces the stress by building a positive approach towards the problem or situation which causes it. Living in a good company of people who supports and motivates in tuff situation will definitely reduce all the stress and tension in life. Being in Stress is always problematic therefore one should always try to avoid or reduce it.
