How to calm down in just a few minutes!

Feeling stressed a little more than you can take? Whether in your workplace, school or home? Here’s a few simple tricks to stop that sudden outburst.

In this modern way of life, full of hassles, demands, frustrations and deadlines, many people feel stressed and eventually feel that sudden outburst of feelings.

As PsychologyToday defines it, stress is simply a reaction to a stimulus that disturbs our physical or mental equilibrium. A little bit of stress, known as “acute stress,” can be exciting—it keeps us active and alert. But long-term, or “chronic stress,” can have detrimental effects on health. You may not be able to control the stressors in your world, but you can alter your reaction to them.

So how can we handle stress and cool off in just a few minutes? 

Here are some few tricks for that:

1. Close your eyes for a few seconds. Tell yourself repeatedly “Take it easy. It’s going to be ok”.
2. Delay your reaction by doing some inhaling/exhaling exercise or by breathing in/breathe out. This will put some clarity to your mind. You will feel like your system just restarted by doing this for a few seconds.
3. Count. Before saying anything, just count from 1 to 10. This will separate your emotion from your action.
4. Take a leave. Get out of the office, go to the pantry, or just go away. This will help you settle down in just a few minutes. A different environment will eventually change your emotion, your mood.
5. Splash some water on your face or better, drink some water. This will lower up the tension building in your system.
6. Listen to music. This will divert your attention for a while.

Source:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/stress

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