We hold stress physically in our bodies – and that be a can be a real pain in the neck – just for starters.
The daily stresses of work, family, and our busy, overbooked lives can add up to a variety of physical aches and pains. It is common knowledge that stress is associated with headaches and backaches, lack of focus and concentration, high blood pressure – the list goes on.
Stress can cause muscles to unconsciously tighten, which, in turn, leads to shorter muscles and ligaments and decreased mobility in the joints of the shoulders, hips, and spine. Even worse, the stress-induced muscle activity actually steals energy needed for other critical functions and wastes the body's important nutritional resources. All of this, of course, causes more tightness, more aches and pains, and, indeed, more stress.
Learning how to manage stress is critical to your long-term health and wellbeing.
Corporate massage can help you manage the physical and emotional effects of stress. Seated massage is designed to increase joint mobility, greatly reducing muscle tightness and overall pain. In addition, it allows the body's regular metabolic process to work effectively, so that the nutrients your body needs for healthy living are readily available. Finally, your corporate massage therapist can recommend stretches and other exercises to keep your body strong and flexible.
Taking regular stress breaks is essential - even five minutes will help. These mini-breaks can be anything from taking a walk, to deep breathing, or a few minutes of stretching. Since eliminating stress is next to impossible, learning how to manage it is critical.
Daily stresses can be triggered by situations which cause us to become irritated, hassled or frustrated. Often the point of conflict can be small, but our reaction to it can be disproportional. Perhaps it triggers something larger we haven't dealt with in our lives on a deeper level. Sometimes the "straw that breaks the camel’s back" is the final small aggravation on top of everything else.
Here are a couple of fast exercises you can do to eliminate some of those daily stressors, e.g. traffic congestion, long lines, personality clashes etc.
First, make a list, numbering from 1 to 10. Rate for yourself how bad something is from a little situation to a real catastrophe happening in your life. Number one might be spilling coffee on the counter and number 10 breaking your leg or a serious catastrophe. If traffic congestion irritates you or a driver cuts in front of you on the road, use this exercise to remind yourself to stay balanced and clear on your perspective.
Relatively speaking you can find something positive in every time and place. Practicing patience will also allow a more visceral release of that which is bothering you.
One more tool is to be grateful for the positives around you. As you touch on that which you are grateful for, you attract to you more of the same.
Take a break when you seem overwhelmed with stress, breathe and stay in perspective.
For more troublesome issues, Write a “dump letter” – write a detailed account of the one issue that is plaguing you – everything is included – unedited and raw. Run free with a whole account, with all the expletives and exposed emotions included. Keep writing freefall, and keep writing even when you think you’ve said it all. Continue scribbling on the page, because as you scribble, you will find another wave – another layer of grievance will emerge. There is no structure to this writing, because nobody will see it.
Keep it overnight. Next day, read over your letter. Add anything more that you think of. Then, when you are done, extract any inspired phrases from your letter that may actually be useful in moving forward, and write them down as a reference for later. The rest you will probably find is junk - garbled raw emotion, which upon reading again, has lost its heat.
We have the ability to pay attention to and create our thoughts. The stress comes because we are unaware of this habit of running our mind on autopilot. The success comes when we realize that we are the only thinker of our thoughts, and we can create our thoughts, then our feelings, and then our actions, that we desire.
So, living our lives with our mind on autopilot can be a stressful habit, and paying attention to and creating our thoughts is a successful practice. When we are in charge of our thoughts, we become in charge of our feelings, and then we become in charge of our actions.
The daily stresses of work, family, and our busy, overbooked lives can add up to a variety of physical aches and pains. It is common knowledge that stress is associated with headaches and backaches, lack of focus and concentration, high blood pressure – the list goes on.
Stress can cause muscles to unconsciously tighten, which, in turn, leads to shorter muscles and ligaments and decreased mobility in the joints of the shoulders, hips, and spine. Even worse, the stress-induced muscle activity actually steals energy needed for other critical functions and wastes the body's important nutritional resources. All of this, of course, causes more tightness, more aches and pains, and, indeed, more stress.
Learning how to manage stress is critical to your long-term health and wellbeing.
Corporate massage can help you manage the physical and emotional effects of stress. Seated massage is designed to increase joint mobility, greatly reducing muscle tightness and overall pain. In addition, it allows the body's regular metabolic process to work effectively, so that the nutrients your body needs for healthy living are readily available. Finally, your corporate massage therapist can recommend stretches and other exercises to keep your body strong and flexible.
Taking regular stress breaks is essential - even five minutes will help. These mini-breaks can be anything from taking a walk, to deep breathing, or a few minutes of stretching. Since eliminating stress is next to impossible, learning how to manage it is critical.
Daily stresses can be triggered by situations which cause us to become irritated, hassled or frustrated. Often the point of conflict can be small, but our reaction to it can be disproportional. Perhaps it triggers something larger we haven't dealt with in our lives on a deeper level. Sometimes the "straw that breaks the camel’s back" is the final small aggravation on top of everything else.
Here are a couple of fast exercises you can do to eliminate some of those daily stressors, e.g. traffic congestion, long lines, personality clashes etc.
First, make a list, numbering from 1 to 10. Rate for yourself how bad something is from a little situation to a real catastrophe happening in your life. Number one might be spilling coffee on the counter and number 10 breaking your leg or a serious catastrophe. If traffic congestion irritates you or a driver cuts in front of you on the road, use this exercise to remind yourself to stay balanced and clear on your perspective.
Relatively speaking you can find something positive in every time and place. Practicing patience will also allow a more visceral release of that which is bothering you.
One more tool is to be grateful for the positives around you. As you touch on that which you are grateful for, you attract to you more of the same.
Take a break when you seem overwhelmed with stress, breathe and stay in perspective.
For more troublesome issues, Write a “dump letter” – write a detailed account of the one issue that is plaguing you – everything is included – unedited and raw. Run free with a whole account, with all the expletives and exposed emotions included. Keep writing freefall, and keep writing even when you think you’ve said it all. Continue scribbling on the page, because as you scribble, you will find another wave – another layer of grievance will emerge. There is no structure to this writing, because nobody will see it.
Keep it overnight. Next day, read over your letter. Add anything more that you think of. Then, when you are done, extract any inspired phrases from your letter that may actually be useful in moving forward, and write them down as a reference for later. The rest you will probably find is junk - garbled raw emotion, which upon reading again, has lost its heat.
We have the ability to pay attention to and create our thoughts. The stress comes because we are unaware of this habit of running our mind on autopilot. The success comes when we realize that we are the only thinker of our thoughts, and we can create our thoughts, then our feelings, and then our actions, that we desire.
So, living our lives with our mind on autopilot can be a stressful habit, and paying attention to and creating our thoughts is a successful practice. When we are in charge of our thoughts, we become in charge of our feelings, and then we become in charge of our actions.
1 comments:
That dump letter suggestion was really good. has come at a really good time for me. Forgot how powerful that can be. Work is crazy at the moment and i feel like i don't have an outlet....so thank you.
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