Stress Relief in MinutesWritten by Trevor Dumbleton
For those who are suffering from stress, just about hardest thing to find is stress relief. Stress can often continue itself on its own energy and, as it mounts up upon itself, it builds itself into an absolute mental frenzy. Unfortunately, this sort of mental frenzy is ultimately counter-productive and leaves mind so frenzied that it cannot actually take care of whatever is causing stress. Thus, stress relief is a way to help mind attend to necessities of life.The first thing you need to realize about stress is that you can get rid of it. In fact, you can control your mind and your emotions and you do not need to hang on to stress. If you learn to get rid of stress all on your own, you will be able to get rid of it that much easier next time. You control your brain a lot more than you know. With that in mind, first way to help give yourself stress relief is with your feet. That is, if something is causing you all sorts of stress, you need to simply stand up and walk away from it. This will give your mind break it needs to calm down and come to grips with situation. Simply allowing it to stress you out more and more is simply not a productive plan. So get up, walk away, and give yourself a break. Once you have walked away, there are several things you can do for stress relief. One of easiest things is simply cleaning house. That's right, vacuuming, dusting, ironing, scrubbing floors and cleaning countertops will actually help you relieve stress. Simply organizing messes and cleaning away dirt will help you immeasurably. This is because you will be taking care of messes, much in manner you want to clean up messes in your life. By sweeping away dust and grime, you will be taking charge of your own home and, in a way, removing clutter from your life by removing clutter from your home. Another method of stress relief is through a hobby. This can be model ship building, stamp collecting, or any number of other means to help you keep your mind off of things. Likewise, woodworking or even fishing can help you get some stress relief and clear away fog of anxiety that can arise from stresses of everyday life. By focusing on something other than what is pressing you, you can get rid of those piling stresses that threaten to take you over. Hobbies give your mind something to concentrate on. And by concentrating on something completely meaningless, your mind can finally relax and let go of pressures that build up with every little concern.
| | Coping with Environmental StressWritten by Trevor Dumbleton
An increasing problem in today's world is environmental stress. This is a type of stress caused by increasing pollution in air we breathe, water we drink, and even in sounds we hear. Though environmental stress seems to be simply a physical problem, it can actually alter ways that our minds work. However, too much environmental stress can also cause physical problems that will ruin our health and lower life expectancy.One of most common, and most noticeable, types of environmental stress is air pollution. As factories churn out smoke and carcinogens, we are forced to breathe air that is filled with poisons. Whether we notice them or not, we cannot avoid them. Our lungs are constantly subjected to small particles that stick in lung tissue and gasses that can find their way into our bloodstream. Obviously, this is not a good situation, because we cannot exactly afford to stop breathing. As well, we are subjected to a whole variety of chemicals when we drink water. With all chemicals that are used in farming, or sprayed on our lawns, or poured into our water supplies, water we drink is filled with all sorts of poisons that are doing our bodies no good. Once again, we cannot afford to stop drinking water, but we do need to be aware that water we are drinking contains a lot of things that we would not want in our bodies. However, there is not much we can do to avoid this situation. Obviously, filtered water is superior to simple tap water, but even water filters cannot remove everything from our water. In fact, we do not want filters to remove all of substances, as water contains many electrolytes that are essential to ensuring proper functioning of our bodies. Even bottled water is not safe, as water has to come from somewhere and that somewhere is usually either a stream or from ground. Unfortunately, streams are filled with particulate matter and chemicals can soak into ground. However, some water is simply taken from municipal water supplies and those are not safe either. Thus, this is a problem that needs to be faced in day-to-day life.
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