It’s something that can strike at any given moment. The feeling of stress and anxiety is something we’re not immune to, especially in the modern day. You could be celebrating your wedding, applying for a job, or just feeling weighed down by life, and stress strikes. But, are there any worthwhile solutions that we can all take on board to stop us feeling stressed out by life in general?
A solid structure
Look at exactly what you’re life consists of. Is everything haphazard? From your life in general to your approach to the fundamentals, a haphazard life means a haphazard mind. Something like money stresses every single one of us in one way or another. So if your attitude to spending money is one of the main reasons you feel stressed, you can look at structuring it accordingly, either by addressing your spending habits by getting professional help, so you can sleep sound at night. You can learn more about what a professional institution can do for your financial planning, but in looking at what does stress you in the first place, by taking appropriate steps and learning to structure life better, it gives you a perspective which gives you the ability to break down a problem. Stress hits us when we feel we can’t control something, but there are so many things that we can control, and your day today living is one of them.
Hacking our biology
Stress occurs from a physiological standpoint. You might have heard of the fight-or-flight response, which is inherent in our biology, as we needed it to escape mammals when we were cavepeople. Now, we can feel stressed over the tiniest thing. Hacking our biology is one of the best ways to achieve a sense of control over this. Nowadays, you see so many options to control your stress, from diaphragmatic breathing, to mindfulness and meditation. Breathing is one of the best places to begin, because it gives us control over our nervous system. The more we do it, the better we can cope with stress, and so, we can focus better on tackling these difficult tasks in life.
Accepting what you cannot change
Because stress is about gaining control over something, a feeling of acceptance over certain things will immediately relax you. There are things in the world which we can control, but there’s so many things that we can’t. We can’t change what other people think about us, and we can’t make people do our bidding, because this is unhealthy for them and for us. This is one of the hallmarks of a controlling personality, and for those people who has a control freak-like nature about many facets of life, ultimately, feel more stress. But in learning to accept there are so many things in life that we have no control over, this will give us a better ability to focus on what we can change. In essence, the only thing we can change in life is ourselves. This is the key to everything.
Yes, life is incredibly stressful now, but that’s not to say we cannot use certain tools to get us from day to day.
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