Best Ways to Manage Stress
30 Easy Ways to Beat Stress
Richard Malishe
Copyright 2020 by Richard Malishe
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Congratulations on purchasing Best Ways to Manage Stress, and thank you for doing so. This book should enable you to change your life by reducing the stress that you feel.
The following chapters will discuss what stress is, but more importantly, they will discuss how to defeat stress for good and stop letting it control your life. Stress is a normal part of life for many people. Everyone has felt the dreadful tension that comes with being stressed at some point in their lives. It is normal to feel some worry when life puts obstacles in your way. Some people have very little stress in their lives, and they are lucky, but many people chronically deal with stress, and it ruins their emotional and physical well-being. They end up never doing what they want because they feel so worried about what might happen.
If youre one of those people who constantly feel stressed or even if you just have moderate stress, this book can help you feel better about your situation. It will also give you the skills you need to address your stress and kick it out of your life. Theres no reason to keep worrying because that worry you feel is only going to stand in your way. Let yourself live to your fullest potential by clearing your mind from the mental cobwebs that always come with stress.
There are plenty of books on this subject on the market, thanks again for choosing this one! Every effort was made to ensure it is full of as much useful information as possible; please enjoy!
Chapter 1: The Roots of Stress
What Is Stress?
Youre probably familiar with what stress is in the broadest terms and know that t is that feeling of pervasive fear. It is a heavy burden that weighs on your mind, and it makes you scared to act as you want to. A poll by YouGov showed that seventy-four percent of people felt so overwhelmed by stress that they couldnt cope. This statistic shows how prevalent stress is in our society. Everyone has felt stress at some point in their life, but while stress is a normal reaction of your body to perceived threats, it can also get out of hand. Some people are so stressed that they spend all their time worrying, and that worry impedes their ability to complete the very tasks that cause stress in the first place. With so much stress, people become self-fulfilling prophecies, and they arent able to accomplish their goals because of the constant fear that something might go wrong. Thats no way to live. Its okay and normal to have stress because stress is a normal human process, but its not okay to have stress that never goes away and is a daily struggle. Stressful events will happen, but you can alleviate the lingering impacts of these events with certain techniques that will be detailed in this book.
In short, stress is your reaction to changes that are happening around you. These changes can, by mental, physical, or emotional. They dont have to be big changes even. Simple changes such as the barista putting cream in your morning coffee when you like it black can make you feel like youve lost control and fill you with that stressful sense of uncertainty and dread. While the wrong coffee isnt usually a threat to your health, it invokes your natural response. Basic consistency feels like safety to humans, and when something interferes with that consistency, we feel like everything is starting to go wrong. With just one bad incident, your whole day can teeter off course. Our brains have learned to love habit and repetition, so to defy stress, we need to embrace the changes of our lives and learn that they are acceptable and that we can handle those unexpected parts of our lives.
Stress is not always a negative part of humanity. It helps keep people safe. Your body gets stressed because in hard to handle situations; it must react in ways to keep you alive. Your brain is focused on survival, and the animalistic part of your brain often acts before the conscious part of your brain can step in, meaning that stress responses arent necessarily rational. They are meant to help you in pressing moments that dont allow you to stop and think. Unfortunately, because the part of your brain responsible for conscious thoughts is a bit lazy, we often default to our instincts based on past experiences. So, if you ate a bad piece of sushi before that resulted in food poisoning, your brain may feel stressed at even just the idea of eating sushi again. You rationally know that the sushi will probably be safe to eat, but you cant shake that negative response you have to it. Analyzing every situation is arduous and takes a lot of energy, so whenever it can, the brain will respond habitually, and thats when you see stress kicking in.
When you are stressed, your body tends to react with its fight or flight response because it thinks that you are in danger and that it needs to take immediate action to protect you. This response has been programmed into you from years of humans having to endure strenuous conditions that required a constant fight for survival. This response is instinctual, and you dont analyze decisions when using this response because, in many situations in human history, taking time to ponder what you were going to do when in danger would put you in more danger. What this means is that, for instance, if you see a snake in the forest that is ready to bite, you wont necessarily have time to think Should I stay and fight or should I run because the snake may have already bitten you by the time you have that conscious debate. Thus, the fight or flight response is unconscious, so your body invokes this response before you can even process why your body is reacting that way.
