As the demands on your time, energy and money increase from year to year, you may respond to this situation with anxiety. You may also feel pressured by demands that you always do your best at work, be a good family member or have to be able to meet someone's needs. But this stress and anxiety is very risky for health, so you must be able to find ways to deal with stress and do it.
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Method 1 of 2: Responding to a Stressful Situation
Step 1. Realize if you are experiencing stress
Feelings of restlessness, rapid breathing, dizziness and outbursts of anger are some signs that stress is already taking a toll on you physically and mentally. Try to find out what causes the stress you are experiencing, and this is not a difficult thing to do.
Step 2. Take a few deep breaths
Find an excuse to get out of the room for two minutes of stress-relief breathing. If you can't leave the room, do five breaths of 10 seconds each in the room.
Step 3. Ask yourself whether you are in control of the situation
If you can't control the situation, you should turn your attention to what you can control. If you can determine what you can control, you can relieve the pressure you are facing.
Step 4. Don't respond in an offensive manner
Experts who are used to tough negotiations believe that this method is absolutely not going to get you what you want. You need to be able to think rationally and try to find arguments that make both parties feel win-win so as not to provoke anger.
- People are often unwilling to accept an outcome or a proposed option if they receive a response that is unfriendly, angry or offensive-even if this choice actually works in their favour.
- You'll be better able to get what you want if you first calm yourself down by taking a few breaths and responding without being overly emotional.
Step 5. Form a team
If someone else is going through a difficult negotiation like you, divide up your tasks or try to work it out together. Having moral support from the team will take the pressure off your shoulders.
Step 6. Prioritize the things you can control
Make a to-do list and divide these tasks into steps. Situations that stress you out will become more manageable.
Step 7. Try using a spell
Repeat words such as "Keep calm and keep trying," "This situation will pass too," "Keep doing it until it works" or "I will try to accept what can't be changed anymore." Try to get an app that contains spells like these, replace the image on your desktop screen with this one or listen to a song that sings your favorite spell, like “Hakuna Matata” or “Everything will be fine.”
Method 2 of 2: Reducing Continuous Pressure
Step 1. Set a schedule for rest
Set a timer on your phone so you can take a 10-minute break every hour. It can be very beneficial if you can take a break during lunch time and come home when work is over when you are facing a very stressful situation, because your body needs rest to recover from emotional and physical stress.
Step 2. Work on getting enough sleep
It's a good idea to set aside an extra 30 minutes to an hour to sleep when you're under a lot of stress. Write down all the tasks you need to do before going to bed so you don't get distracted from thinking about them.
Step 3. Take at least 30 minutes to exercise every day
Exercise can lower high blood pressure, deal with stress and help release hormones, such as serotonin, which keeps you positive.
Step 4. Don't drink too many caffeinated or alcoholic beverages
Caffeine can help you stay focused, but you may be overstimulating yourself from the stress you're under. A little alcohol can reduce anxiety, but actually alcohol will increase stress on the body after one or two drinks.
Step 5. Strive to be a capable person, not a perfect person
Nobody is perfect, and those with very high ideas of perfection will feel more pressure if they don't achieve it. Try to do your best and keep moving forward.
Step 6. Accept the error
Try to find wisdom from a situation that is not to your liking. The ability to learn from mistakes will distinguish people who are constantly under stress from those who are able to learn because they have experienced stress.
- By trying to understand every response to stress you've ever experienced, you may be less surprised and stressed the next time you have to deal with a stressor.
- Don't let mistakes destroy your self-esteem. Everyone can make mistakes.
