Work Place Stress

The fast pace of work leaves little time for a moment
of stillness and relaxation; something that you need
to help combat all the daily stress in your life.

Here are some easy steps for you to do to help create
some stillness in your life.

After you finish your work day, you’ve eaten, don’t
plop down in front of the TV. Take a few minutes to
learn how to calm yourself with stillness.

Turn off all the noise around you, the TV, the phone
or anything else that may distract you. Turn down
the lights in the room, sit in a comfortable chair,
close your eyes and relax. You may only be able to
be there for a few minutes, but try to increase
the time of sitting a little each day.

Notice how you feel. Are your muscles all tense from
work?

Are there any little aches or pains in your body?

What do you heard?, the traffic outside?

Just relax while you notice how you feel or listen to
the things around you.

Now concentrate on your breathing. How are you
breathing?

Try a long slow breath in and leave out a long sigh.
Make the breathing out longer than breathing in. This
will help to relax you. After a few seconds of deep
breathing, notice how you feel.

If you are still tense, take a few more breathes and
notice if the tension is gone.

Don’t worry if your mind wanders away from your
breathing:it takes practice to calm the mind. Once
you notice you aren’t concentrating on your breathing,
return to focusing on it.

Remember how it feels with the tension out of your
body, how relaxed you feel, how the muscles feel
when relaxed. The deep breathing helps to slow down
your body and relaxes the mind.

When at work take a few seconds to recall how the
calmness felt. Give your mind a few seconds of
calmness and see what a difference it will make in
your work day.

Remember to relax, deep breathe to relieve the stress
of daily living, a few seconds will work wonders.

When you are under Stress, your body can build up
lots of tension: the aching back, sore shoulders or
stiff neck from bending over the computer or other
machines for hours, are sure signs of tension built
up in the body.

All this tension drains you of your energy. You are not
only tired, but become irritated very easily, you start
to snap out answers when asked questions and lose
your patience when you have to repeat something.

Getting up and walking around to get your blood
flowing back to the muscles will help a little.

To manage the stress when you finally get home,
take a soothing fifteen or twenty minute soak in a
warm tube. Add your favorite fragrance to the bath
water, and don’t forget to put up the
“do not disturb” sign.

Get in and relax, letting your mind wander over happy
things or something that you enjoy.The warm water
will help your muscles to relax. The tension just
seems to flow away, while you relax your mind, and
calm your nerves. The moisture heat works better
than the dry heat of a heating pad.

If you can’t soak, a nice warm shower will help sooth
the muscles while you let your mind relax.

After a bath or warm shower, a nice long night’s sleep
will help you get off to a fresh start the next day.
Even a short nap will help to make you feel like a
new person.

Don’t forget it is important to take time out for
yourself. A little bit of pamper time on a regular
basis will stop all the little aches and pains from
turning into something major.

Part of good Health Care is preventing the little aches
and pains from your daily Stress from building up and
causing major problems.

Now that you have a few things that you can do to
prevent work place stress, here is somethings to do
when you are away from work to manage stress.

Always get plenty of rest.

Your body needs from 7 to 8 hours of rest nightly to
regenerate from the physical strain. This helps you
to have a clear thinking mind and a good source of
energy when you awake.

If you cheat your body of its’ rest, you may spend
the day trying to work with a foggy mind and not be
able to concentrate clearly on the work at hand. You
will become easily confused and become frustrated.
Thus your emotions will be hard to control.

Don’t forget to eat a good breakfast so you will have
the energy to start your workday off right.

Nothing worse than having no energy until break
time, when you finally get something into your
system, then trying to play catch up from the
morning and still keep up with the other work
you need to do.

That will add alot of stress to your system.

Your body needs its’ rest. And no one can provide rest
but you. So take care of your body and your body will
stay healthy for a long time.

You are responsible for your heath care.