6 Habits To Help You Ride The Inevitable Waves Of Work Stress
Working
really hard inevitably means stress. But it shouldn't go unaddressed. Instead,
use these six habits to help manage it.
While
it's obvious that negative life changes lead to stress, psychologists have
found the positive changes load up our stress levels as well. According to one well-known scale, experiencing outstanding personal
achievement is more stressful than having trouble with your boss or taking on a
mortgage.
Maybe
that's why the entrepreneurial set is prone to panic attacks: Whether we're going
through the trough of sorrow or peak experiences, the volatility we invite into
our lives can be tough to deal with.
Which
is why we need all the help we can get. Writing on the OPEN Forum, author
Bruna Martinuzzi surveys a range of factors to help us better navigate our cognitive
kerfuffles.
1) Step away from the
Internets
We
knew our phones were stifling our creativity. Turns out they're taking
our well-being, too: British studies suggest that the more time you
spend combing through social media on your devices, the more likely you are to
feel anxious and overwhelmed. So put the phone down.
Yogurt
reduces stress--really. Also, Martinuzzi notes,
taking the right vitamins can help too: Dietary
inadequacies cause a decline in the function of enzymes, which can cumulatively
influence our mood states. Vitamins and minerals come to the rescue by
regulating biochemical processes in the brain that affect mood.
Turns
out that anxiety is often just your mind wandering around. To be less anxious, then, we can learn to train it, same as we'd train a puppy.
A gigantic body of research links the quality of our
relationships to the quality of our physical and emotional health. The more we
invest in our relationships, says social science, the more resilient we become.
5) Listen to music
As
John Coates notes in The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, the amount of exercise
you get predicts the amount of emotional
discomfort you can handle. So that's another reason we all need to work
out--luckily it only takes seven minutes.
By:
Drake Baer http://www.fastcompany.com/3015465/leadership-now/6-habits-to-help-you-ride-the-inevitable-waves-of-work-stress?partner=newsletter
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