Steps to Deal with Stress

Jamie Smartkins
3 min readAug 3, 2020

Since we are born, we deal with stress throughout our lives. We can’t fully avoid stress as it arises most of the times through unavoidable circumstances. Thus in order to minimize the effect of stress in our daily lives, we must follow the below mentioned steps to reduce stress by a larger margin in our lives.

1)Talk to your friends

Many times we are lonely in life or there will be situations where we’ll be leading a solitary life. Students go to college and study, professionals travel short distance or long distance for work. Either way, they might be missing their parents or close friends as they might be studying or working in a different city in a new place. Thus many times they may feel lonely and when you are studying all alone or returning home from a 9–10 hour in the evening, there is no body beside you to talk. In these situations, grab your mobile and start calling your parents, best friends and talk. Free your mind and you will not feel stressed anymore. Share your thoughts with them and you’ll be relieved.

2)Manage your time

The biggest challenge in dealing stress is managing time. Manage your time well to remove stress from life. Check this article on how to manage your time efficiently.

3)Live in the present

People feel stressed thinking of their future too much. Whether they will pass the future exam, whether they will get promotion at workplace, whether they can buy their dream car or dream house. These so many unknown questions keeps their mind busy and eventually they are stressed. The only solution is to live in present. Life will take its own course and we should not be bothered by it. The more we try to think about it, we will fall in the trap. Thus live and enjoy your life. Living with what you have at the moment is worth more than what you will gain or earn in future.

4)Avoid bad habits

Avoid consumption of alcohol, smoking. These doesn’t help in decreasing the stress level but increases the stress level. Thus change your bad habits with good ones. Replace them by having some candy or some chocolate.

5)Get enough sleep

Nowadays people doesn’t sleep well and this is really harmful. Sleeping for at least 6 -8 hours a day is must to get the desired energy to work the next day. If you don’t sleep well, you will unable to focus at work and you will be stressed. Sleep well and relax. Try to sleep early and get proper sleep and you will see the result the very next day.

6)Exercise, mediation and yoga

Last but not the least any form of exercise, meditation and yoga is helpful in relieving stress. If you are not interested in any of the following, dance in front of the mirror. Put your favorite dance track and simply dance. Dancing is also a great form of exercise and it relieves stress instantly. If you don’t know dance, join some dance classes nearby.

--

--