Eliminate Stress For Good With These Tips!
1. Mind rest, not mindless.
Recharging your brain doesn't always mean that you need to lie down or sit in front of something mindless. So, rather than find mindless activities, find something that fills your mind with quiet. Walk outside and listen; look at art. Access the abstract parts of your brain that have been sleeping and give the analytical part of your brain a chance to chill.
Expert Nugget #1: “Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.” — A.A. Milne
2. Body health = brain health.
Say what you will about eating healthy, but it has a direct impact on how you feel about yourself. How you feel about yourself also has a huge influence on your mood. Choose the right food. Too much sugar can bring you up but it will bring you down and it will make you feel horrible.
When you're feeling good about yourself, your other stresses won't seem quite as bad.
Expert Nugget #2: “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” — John F. Kennedy
3. Negativity is a choice.
It's a poor choice that has become increasingly easy to make the more anonymous our interactions with people become.
Road rage has us yelling at the old lady who didn't see the light turn green right away. Online forums have us arguing with Internet trolls as if we're defending a dissertation on which our lives depend.
The simple solution? Acceptance. There are situations when it's worth saying your opinions but there are times when it's better to keep quiet and just accept things. There are things you can never control, there are things that you should leave as is.
Expert Nugget #3: “What's gone — and what's past help — should be past grief.” — William Shakespeare
4. Read a book.
“Oh, but I don't have time for that! I have laundry and dinner and the dog need his medicine and —” newsflash: If you distill all of the time you spend on social media and watching TV and cut that time in half, you'll have more than enough time.
We move between cell phone, laptop, desktop, conversations, Facebook, etc. We never really slow down enough during the day to focus on just one thing for any length of time.
Reading a book forces you to do that. Stop. Focus. Read something with some depth and do not check your phone after every three sentences (because that defeats the whole purpose).
Stop and focus on one thing for a few minutes. This brings back your focus and will help you be more creative. You'll be amazed at how calming it is.
Expert Nugget #4: “Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason, mastery demands all of a person.” — Albert Einstein
5. Don't stress until there's something to stress about.
Modern technology primarily centers on making everything in our lives easier and everything we want more accessible.
Because of this, we have become increasingly incapable of dealing with life when things don't go our way. If we could simply take a step back and look at our life's big picture when something is causing us stress, our stressor would probably seem much smaller and inconsequential than we let it become.
Don't stress until there's actually something to stress about.
Expert Nugget #5: “One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.” — Aldous Huxley
6. Make something new.
It could honestly be anything. The point here is to see something from conception to completion.
No task lists, nothing unfinished, no lingering things left undone.
Cook something new, paint something weird or write a crazy, nonsensical story. There is something incredibly cathartic in the act of creating.
Expert Nugget #6: “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.” — Joss Whedon
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