8 TOP TIPS TO HELP...
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Issue 89 2020
8 Top Tips To Help You Manage Stress Did you know that there are over 360 physical symptoms of stress, causing it to impact on our health, quality of sleep, relationships, in fact every area of our lives? It’s one of the biggest causes of absenteeism from work, but we can experience stress at any age. Children often go through unappreciated levels of stress, from peer pressure, worry about exams, concerns about their body image, their popularity. Adults often have work, family and relationship worries and stresses to contend with. Older people may stress about their health, finances, their quality of life. Every age can bring its own stresses and pressures. Let’s look at eight tips to help you manage stress: ● Acknowledge that some stress is good for you; it makes you perform better, think
outside the box, dig deep. Stressed people often get more done in a day, frequently achieving more than they originally anticipated because of their heightened levels of thinking caused by being on alert. But living in a constant stressful state is harmful to health, quality of life and happiness. ● Learn to recognise your amber lights, those traffic light signals that warn you of your rising stress levels as they get perilously close to halt or red. It may be that you get headaches, insomnia, become more irritable, lose your sense of humour, your skin complaints flare up again. Tune in to these warning signs and do something about them before they worsen. Take a break, listen to music, go for a run; intercept when your stress levels give you those warning signs. ● Many people find that a worry/stress list is a good way to manage stress as it helps them itemise everything that needs to be done. A list provides reassurance that things
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