How I reduce my Stress

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So I'm gonna write today on how I deal about stress. And maybe you can apply it into yourself too.

Stress is the number one factor that deprives you of your happiness, your energy and your willingness to be productive. So if you want to be productive here are some tips I've used in the past and using the present to reduce stress immensely from your life.

Stress is usually inhibited by something such as depression, anxiety or overthinking. But for me, the main problem is overthinking. That is what can lead to depression and anxiety and I'm going to give you some ways to stop overthinking and overcome this sort of mindset.

First tip I have for you guys is to be optimistic and by that I mean is see the good things in every situation. Always look at the positive side of every situation. Your mind will get into this habit of positive reinforcement. Your mind will constantly shift its thoughts to the positive things in any situation. Your mind will have a very good job at forming habits out of the things you're constantly thinking about. So if you're constantly thinking positively, your mind is going to have an easier time to just think about positive things and if you're constantly thinking negatively, your mind will have an easier time to just get into that sad, depressing, stress filled mood.

A good habit I formed personally is writing down what I'm grateful for every morning. I'll wake up and write three things that I'm grateful for now. This may seem like absolutely nothing like it's doing nothing but these are the types of things that your subconscious mind will take into effect. Your subconscious mind is actually controlling 95 percent of your acts and your behaviors. So in essence by doing this practice, you're actually reprogramming or hacking your subconscious mind and you'll get into this mindset a lot easier.

The second tip I have for you guys to reduce your stress levels is to exercise more. Now I'm sure you know that exercising obviously makes you a healthier person. But it makes you a much happier person as well. Not only will you feel better about yourself but when you're exercising you release endorphins or the chemicals that reduce stress in your brain. So I would suggest doing some type of cardio or weightlifting four to five times a week and not only does that help your brain perform and function better but that also helps you sleep a lot better. And having better quality sleep ultimately will lead to less stress and overtime.

Again, you're just forming a habit. So it's going to be easier and easier for you to get you up and go exercise if you're doing it consistently. Combining exercise, combining better quality sleep and combining being optimistic and thinking positively will allow you to become a more relaxed and happy person.

The third tip and personally what I think is the most important tip to reduce stress in your life is to meditate. Meditation is essentially is to train your brain to reduce stress. Live more and think less. There have been endless studies that show what meditation does for the brain. So not only does meditation help preserve the aging brain but it also reduces activity in what's called the monkey mind.

The monkey mind is the mind that is worrying the mind that is in the past or future and most of the studies say that its effects on the brain rival antidepressants for depression and anxiety. So not only does it make you less depressed and less anxious which reduces stress overall, it can actually help you concentrate and focus better. By focusing on what really matters, you're training the brain to completely relieve yourself of that stressful mindset.

The fourth tip I have for you is to find out what is stressing you out and think of the solutions. This could go hand-in-hand with positive affirmations kind of you're thinking of how can I make this work better? How can I get over and accomplish what is causing me so much stress?So instead of overthinking it and stressing about it more, relax and write down what is stressing you out and what you can do to make yourself less stressed.

Writing it down and figuring out the solution is the most important part but if it's something that you can feel like you can completely remove from your life without causing more stress then just let it go completely. You don't need to keep things in your life that are unnecessary, that are stressing you out. You need to let go of a bad lifestyle habit, a toxic relationship or even just material items. And by material things I mean things you can spend money on. You need to change your focus to the more intrinsically valuable things that you can't put a price on. It's very important to realize that the intrinsically valuable things are will really matter in life. A lot of people don't realize that the material you overspend and overbuy is only going to bring you temporary happiness. The intrinsically valuable things that matter most are the things that are going to bring you the most happiness.

The fifth and final tip I have for you to reduce stress is to be in the present moment. All stress resides when you think you are, when you're so caught up in either the past or the future. By being mindful or being present, you become an observer of your thoughts from moment to moment without judging them. With mindfulness, you are simply just being you are completely in the present moment. You're not judging your thoughts, you're just letting them come and go and by not grasping at your thoughts or pushing them away you're actually just awakening to the experience of life completely.

Living is living in the present moment. Nothing else exists but the present moment. This might seem like a tough thing to think about that nothing else exists but if you really think it over and over, it makes sense. There's no point to be worrying about the past because the past is unchangeable. There's nothing you can change about it so why even think or worry about it and the future has yet to happen and it's completely unpredictable. All that matters is here now.

So those are the things I've done in the past up intil now to reduce my stress. I hope this helps.

Thanks for reading.