Modern life is full of a lot of pressure. If you are not careful, it will accumulate pressure in your heart. You will often say "I feel so tired" unconsciously.
In the era of the COVID-19 epidemic, we are more concerned about physical symptoms and will be screened promptly. In the era of high pressure, we should also pay attention to the related signs of psychological stress.
Ways to Relieve Stress and Anxiety
Below I will introduce two common causes of stress loss; three stress-reducing prescriptions for accumulating happiness in life. See if they help you and release accumulated stress.
1. Get rid of the two major stress problems
When life is full of pressure, we will hope that the pressure will disappear completely, but when life lacks pressure, why do we also feel headaches? On the other hand, we often have this mentality. We are busy with something right now, so how can we have time to relieve stress? But sometimes, you need to put down what you are doing and relax. Let us first understand two important concepts related to stress:
(1) Inverted U Theory - Learn to regulate stress and maintain high performance
Life is spent on daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea. To survive in society, one needs to play many roles and maintain a family. Harmony, building interpersonal support, and managing intimate relationships. What's more, in the age of the global village, changes in the external environment are closely related, such as the new coronavirus epidemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, rising prices, etc., which will affect daily life and cause stress. The Inverted U Theory tells us that when life is full of pressure, we will feel tense, anxious, and have increased emotional ups and downs;
When life is stress-free, we will feel dull, boring, and unmotivated. However, people perform best when they are under moderate levels of stress. Therefore, even if we cannot control natural and man-made disasters or the changes of the seasons, we can learn to adjust our own pace and divide the original large number of work tasks and challenges into several small tasks, spread out the workload or the things at hand, and maintain priorities. Reasonable distribution, step-by-step completion, and adjustment to the level of pressure we bear in our hearts can help us cope with these pressures more efficiently.
(2) Exhaustion funnel - long-term stress leads to exhaustion, nourishing actions restore the mind
Physical fatigue can be recovered by rest and sleep, but it does not necessarily restore mental fatigue. Have you ever been at this moment when your work is extremely busy, or you are experiencing a low point in your life, living a life where you have trouble sleeping and eating, and the days are like years. You really want to have a good rest, but the tiredness, emptiness, and low mood in your heart never go away.
Slowly you don’t want to do anything to adjust and improve yourself, but life is still full of pressure. At this time, the life circle begins to gradually shrink, like a funnel that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Your life only leaves you with stress and worries that you can't get rid of, but very little leisure and nourishment to replenish your energy. People can easily be pushed to the edge of physical and mental exhaustion. At this time, please remind yourself to temporarily put down and slow down all the things you are doing, and start to pick up some things that make you happy and relaxed. In this way, through the actions of nourishing your heart, you can slowly inject vital water into your life. On the contrary, you can gradually restore your inner fatigue and have the opportunity to increase your efficiency in doing things.
2. Accumulating happiness in life, three stress reduction methods
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Good physical and mental health also depends on the three stress reduction methods practiced in life.
(1) Create variability in life
Working often takes us a lot of time, so when we relax, planning activities of different nature or adjusting the work arrangement process can help change our mood. If you usually do more physical work, you can calm down and do something like listening to music, reading, browsing mobile phones for information entertainment, etc. during your break; if you often sit in an office, you can plan sports and leisure activities, such as swimming, walking, fitness, yoga, etc.
(2) Pay attention to the balance of mood
Life is changing rapidly, and emotions will actually arise within us.Facing different emotions, occasionally taking time to ask yourself three small questions is a good way to adjust your emotions, such as: (1) What mood am I in now? (2) What is the reason? (3) What can I do to make it better? Feeling better.
If you have more mood swings than before for up to two weeks, you should pay more attention to the possibility of depression, but don’t be too nervous. First go to the Internet to search for information about depression related introductions and self-screening measures for depression. Table, according to your own situation, try to communicate with family and friends, get together and other activities to see if it is relieved. If you still cannot confirm it and you are in a state of panic and entanglement, you can go to a nearby hospital for psychological intervention or treatment.
(3) Support in establishing interpersonal relationships
Keep in touch with relatives and friends, and you can also do whatever they like and engage in things of interest together, such as sports, dinner parties, and travel. You can also ask others to introduce some activities that you have never thought of, such as reading clubs, art exhibitions, group gatherings, etc. You can experience a new life and have the opportunity to get to know each other better.
Work is always busy, and things often come to your door one after another, but as long as you are willing, you can temporarily put down the things at hand at any time and give yourself a little leisurely moment of peace and ease.
