What reduces your stress levels? I very much liked seeing a poster today with ten top tips such as:
Make time for fun
Offer and accept help
Learn more about something that amazes you
See the poster and other simple suggestions here:
http://www.stresslesstips.org/
We're all beautifully different tho so I challenge you to write your own top 10.
Mine would include:
Hug someone I love
Hug someone I don't yet love/have never met
Sing, sing sing sing - out as loudly as I can
Dance - just put some music on and get on my feet
Phone/email/see a friend and remember just how much I'm loved
Talk it out and get a less intense perspective
Go outside and breathe in some fresh air/look at the clouds/touch the grass/stroke some bark
Read a book - doesn't have to be a novel - just something that pulls me out of my distress
That leaves me 2 more to think about/steal from other people's ideas. It's tempting to include "eat nice stuff" - tho I eat so much rubbish food I suspect it doesn't reduce my stress in the longer term. And I do like a nice bath, but cleaning it/sorting out enough hot water can increase the stress too. I shall keep thinking what my other two might be.
And of course what is interesting is I don't make so much time for these things as I could...
Another early start tomorrow but I will definitely factor in at least some of these tomorrow. Hope you have a day full of things that make you happy/reduce your stress too :D
just put the kettle on for my first brew of the day. want one?
ReplyDeletebusy group meant I didn't get to offer round the cake so have had to bring most of it home - d'oh!
nearly forgot to put any of my top tips into practice, then remembered and looked up at a wonderous cloud formation - yay!! hope you're remembering your own stress relief measures :D
Love this link that includes inspirational stuff on how we are all in closets and how not having whatever our own "hard conversation" is, is long term stressful, not short term stressful.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.upworthy.com/a-lesbian-was-tired-of-answering-wether-she-was-a-boy-or-a-girl-so-she-served-up-some-pancakes?g=2