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Do you spend your time rushing all the time trying to keep up with near-impossible deadlines? You’re not alone, thousands and thousands of people from all around the world deal with super busy schedules both in their work life and personal life. While trying to stay on top of all the things that need to be done and trying hard to get everything done on time. You, them, and sometimes even myself. Forget one very important matter in all the busyness. That’s our personal well-being. Our personal wellness, mental wellness. It’s vital to our health to keep these things in mind. Even more so due to the amount of stress all this hurrying costs and causes us in our day-to-day living.

We all know that stress affects our mental wellness, there is no question about it. You get headaches, feel burned out, worried if you fall behind, have anxiety when things start to pile up, and/or fear something will happen if it’s not done just right.

Stress also affects your physical wellness. The effects of stress can take their toll on you physically including your organs, central nervous system, your heart, blood pressure, even your cells, and immune system.

It’s vital for our whole personal wellness, physical and mental to try and keep stress in check. You, me, and everyone else need to learn to manage stress before it destroys us. The danger of stress is very high. I’m sure you have seen some signs in your life from time to time. It includes things like feeling worn out, fatigued, heart beating too fast, trouble catching your breath, anxiety, depression, blood pressure too high, body feels weak, getting sick more often, and feeling burnt out.

So for the sake of our personal wellness let’s do something about it. It’s our life so why not make it a super happy healthy lifestyle while we are at it? Here are some suggestions to try to help clear the path and reduce the amount of stress that tries to get in the way during our journey of life.

Highly recommended methods for managing stress

Do a random act of kindness. Stress melts when you do something nice for someone for no particular reason at all. It could be as simple as a smile or pointing out something you like about the person. It can be done anywhere at any time.

While traveling down your path of life, make sure to include doing an activity every day that you enjoy. Anything at all. Maybe a hobby, coloring, going for walks. Any activity that allows you to simply relax and/or makes you feel good.

Take a breather. Sometimes with stress, your mind can run out of control with thoughts and worries about the future. Other times it spins out of control going over events of the past of how you could have done something different. Whatever the reason is why your mind is spinning, stop by focusing on your breathing. Seriously, just place all your focus on how you breathe. Control your breathing with deep inhales and slow exhales. It might take a few minutes however it does help reduce the stress your mind is creating.

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Let your feelings be free. There are times when you are overwhelmed more so with feelings than thoughts themselves. Now feelings are not facts, however, they are important. When you’re stressed out due to your emotions. Go and find a place where you can take some time to relax and allow yourself to feel the way you feel. It’s OK. You might need to express them to someone or write them down. Don’t bury or suppress them. Rather, for a moment of time, acknowledge this is how you feel. Let your emotions out, let them flow, don’t hold onto them, just let them go free.

Make sure every day to take a break. If at all possible, go outside. Take some time to be in the moment. Enjoy the air, the scenery, and even the weather. Take a moment to enjoy where you are here and now. It’s one of the best paths to living a better and more enjoyable life. When you are taking time to be in the moment you are also creating positive experiences in life.

As with all paths traveled there are usually road signs. Choose your own signs and place them on your desk, or wall, fridge, where ever you can, but make them yours. These road signs could be motivational posters and/or quotes, an affirmation you like to use, a personal mantra, A vision board, or dream collage, or any things that inspire you.

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Slow down, and try to move at a pace where you can comfortably breathe. Slowing your pace down when you work, walk, or even when you’re having lunch, will reduce your heart rate and blood pressure. In turn, doing things at a slower more relaxed pace makes doing them less stressful.

During times when maybe you can’t slow down for whatever reason at least make it a point to take 30-90 seconds to pause and be mindful. A few seconds to at least check and observe how you feel without judgment. Simply being aware of your current situation reduces stress, because you chose to pause, you’re back in control. Whether you choose to keep going fast or to slow down. Things are not as stressful if you’re the one deciding the pace.

Through the course of the day, take quick little stretch breaks. Sometimes you’re working so hard on something that you may even get into the zone. Make sure to take a quick moment to stretch your arms and or legs, and back. It helps to relieve the tension our bodies may be feeling due to staying in one position too long.

Best Path to a Happier Healthier Lifestyle

Knowing how dangerous stress can be on your health use these suggestions to help manage the stress you deal with in your life. Most definitely feel free to share the ideas with any of your friends, colleagues, family, or whomever you like. Now go create a super happy healthy lifestyle, you owe it to yourself and no one else can do it for you.

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