Healthy Ways to Relieve Stress

Stress is the emotional and physical strain caused by our response to pressure from the outside world. Stress seems to be a part of our lives that are difficult to avoid, especially for those of us who live big city. A solid routine, traffic jam, high work pressure, a short deadline work, romance issues, financial issues, phobia of something, and many more things that cause stress. Prolonged stress can also affect health, both physical and mental health.

And sometimes we do a variety of ways to relieve the stress, but most of us are relieving with stress in ways that are not healthy, such as smoking, drinking alkhohol, or take it out with a lot of eating, also called "emotional eating". These methods only have a momentary effect in relieving stress, and it adds an adverse effect on our body. We should know that there are many healthy ways to relieve stress.

• Exercise. Cardio become my favorite sports to relieve stress. Jogging, cycling, swimming, or playing football is an example of a fun exercise to relieve stress on the head. Whatever your favorite sport, do it right away if your stress begin to descend
• Meditation or yoga. This method is also one of my favorite ways. Maybe meditation or yoga are unpopular with the public. Meditation is not difficult, but it was not exactly easy. The essence of meditation practice is to manage our breathing, and circulation of oxygen going to the brain, it will certainly reduce our stress loads. Meditation will spur our thoughts become more positive
• Immediately clean yourself. When you come home from work, and the condition of the brain is overwhelmed with work, get to the bathroom, take a bath and clean yourself. This will make yourself become more fresh. Go to the salon for a spa can also be an alternative.
• After you take a bath and body refreshed. Immediately rest, adequate sleep will also affect your mental health. make sure to sleep 7-8 hours at night. And try to get up early, do not oversleep.
• Go to a fun recreation. Go on a vacation to a place that you like. Look for leisure or weekend. Nature recreation is my favorite place to take a load off my mind. You can take a vacation with friends, family or even alone.  Aloof, sometimes also a way to forget all the stresses in life
• Watching movies or listening to music. Watch comedies that make you laugh, or listen to music that is fun. Do not watch the movie and the song contains sadness, this will only add to your stress. hehehe
• And the way that I think is the most powerful, is hanging out with your friends. Gathered, talking, joking with our comrades will be an effective way to relieve stress. With notes, hanging out with friends and doing positive activities. Do not get together then just get drunk.

If you are experiencing severe stress and prolonged, and the above methods can not help to reduce it, I suggest contacting a psychiatrist. Don't underestimate the stress. However, if we take immediate action when stress comes to attack, I believe stress can be easily overcome. So, just leave your bad habits to relieve stress, change in ways that are more healthy to get a better quality of life.