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Stress Management/How to Develop Positive Stress Responses

You can change your physical response to stress!

 

This willful effort is vital to your physical and emotional health.  These healthy habits WILL ease anxiety or depression.  (Need  help in building new habits? http://www.stickk.com/)

• Exercise
• Eat a balanced diet
• Leave extra time in your schedule to get things done or get to places
• Reduce the number of things on your ”to-do” list
• Practice saying ‘no’ to requests you don’t have time to do, can’t do, or don’t want to do
• Schedule time just for yourself for meditation and fun
• Have a favorite place to go, either physically or in your mind
• Repeat positive phrases to yourself, like “Nothing lasts forever…This, too, will pass.”
• Laugh at something each day
• Write in a journal

What do you do that helps you feel more relaxed, calm and peaceful?

Pick a Specific Way to Reduce Your Stress