Everyone knows what stress is. Or just thinks he knows? Let's deal with the stress itself, and then we will give ourselves "vaccinations" against stress.
Do you think taking a shower is stressful? Or is it a stress relieving ritual? In fact, both.
Any movement is stress for the body and to take a shower, you need to at least get up, take a towel and walk to the bathroom. Although this is insignificant, it is a load on the body, and when our muscles tense up, it is stress for them. The bottom line is that while doing this you do not experience stress, and for the biological body it is stress.
Similarly, it happens in the head when we need to communicate with a stranger at an event or learn English, only in this case we experience tension. This means that stress can only be measured by the degree of acuteness that we experience in relation to an action that is stressful for us. Chronic stress occurs in cases of constant worries about any reason, mainly fears, avoidance of trouble and negative thinking.
I have great news for you! We can control the effect of stress on us. How to use stress to develop and move forward? The fact is that we avoid stress too much and forget that all the difficulties, troubles and challenges allow us to develop and learn, to become stronger.
I will not urge you to avoid stress, but on the contrary, the more stress, the more development and results in life. It is very easy to defeat stress and use it for the benefit of development, zero it if you want. You just need to give the body physical activity.
What happens in this case? The fact is that during physical activity, brain activity decreases, while it decreases to a very significant extent, but after completion, on the contrary, it rises to a new level, which will be higher than before the start of physical exercise.
A lot of research has been done on this topic, and they all say that people who exercise their bodies are less sick, more productive at work and much more stress-resistant than their colleagues.
In other words, physical activity is a tool for relieving stress and not just for relieving it, but for making stress good. Let's look at an example of how this can be applied. One girl who started smoking and drinking due to stress used this technique with physical activity. In her life, there was a series of failures, parting with a loved one, difficulties at work, relations with friends deteriorated, and she began to fill this stress with wine and light cigarettes. But then, at the moment when she wanted to smoke or drink, she took and squatted, so after two weeks she already could not imagine life without squats. She replaced the typical methods of dealing with stress with physical activity, which fundamentally changed her condition.
Use one simple rule - the more stress in your life, the more you need to exercise so that the brain can work and develop properly.
You don't have to buy a gym membership for this. You can take a break every 25-30 minutes, during which you can sit down several times, do push-ups from the floor, or shake your abs, especially if you are a freelancer, if not and you are embarrassed to squat in the office in front of everyone, then I understand you perfectly. In such cases, you can go to the toilet and squat there. You can use your lunchtime for a walk.
Everything is in your hands, use stress for good!
