My recipe to deal with stress

How do you manage stress?

In today’s fast paced world, the stress is integral part of our lives. You can’t avoid it or even live without stress.

So best way is to learn to deal with stress. Make friendship with the stress and live happily with it.

Actually stress becomes worrying when it starts affecting your mental health. And subsequently it affects your physical well being. This can only happen when you don’t know how to deal with it.

There are numerous ways to deal with the stress, many fellow bloggers have suggested the ways to reduce the stress and deal with it.

Why Stress comes

First let’s understand, why the stress comes and can we completely avoid it by change of lifestyle. My answer is No. In today’s complex, uncertain and volatile world, the stress is inevitable. You can’t avoid the stress, it has become integral part of your life.

You come out of the house and the traffic congestion brings stress to you, you meet your friends and their sufferings brings stress. There is stress in the job, in the relationship and in the society. There is no place which is stress free.

Ways to deal with the stress

I have found out some ways, which help me to deal with the stress. Let me share my ideas to deal with the stress.

A Hobby: Develop a hobby which you love and immerse in the hobby. It will keep the stress away or at least reduce the intensity of the stress. My hobby is my terrace garden. I forget the world around me, when I work with my plants. It is beautiful feeling to watch your saplings grow to a big plant.

Sports : If you play some sports or love to play,please devote some time towards the game you love to play. For example,I love to play Table Tennis. With every ball I hit, I blow away the stress or anger and get fully relieved when I finish the game.

Ikigai : It is the Japanese philosophy that finding some purpose for living. It could be your hobby or some social activity or something else. This purpose of life or Ikigai drives your life from morning through night. It keeps you engaged and fully active throughout the day. It is secret to longevity.

Forest Bathing : Spend some time with nature. Immerse yourself in the deep forests and you will be relieved of your worries. It is proven after lot of research that the green colour is soothing to eyes. You will feel fresh when you spend time with beautiful places and natural wonders.

Meaningful Connections : This is extremely important to develop and nurture meaningful connections. Spend some time with friends, enjoy their company and share your stories. You can even share your worries with friends. Sharing the worries reduces the stress at least by half. While you share the worry, it becomes more clear to you and then the anxiety reduces.

I follow these simple principle to combat the stress. Many of them work with combination. But surely they will help you.

Another quick therapy I follow, is walking alone for an hour or so. When you feel stressed up or anxious on something, I go out for a walk. And I am fully fresh and relieved when I return from walking.

Find out, which of these work for you. Share in comments.

Thank you my dear readers for stopping by

Stay Happy and keep smiling 😊