Natural stress reduction techniques

The stress levels of people working in metro cities are way too high. May it be a barking boss or the headache of controlling sleazy, lazy or dumb employees. What is more surprising that Indian villagers who toil in their fields day and night never know a thing called as stress or strain. If you do not want to go to stress relieving classes and want to acquaint yourself with a few techniques which can be followed while in the office or home, follow the procedure given below.

1. Anything that hampers your peace and tranquility should be avoided.

2. Listen to soft silent music which can bring your hyperactive brain to normal conditions.

3. Rest for a few minutes after every hour.

4. One simple way to stay calm is to reduce the breath. Breathe in and hold your breath as far as you can. Hold the breath only as long as you feel comfortable with it.
5. Closing your eyes for a short while can also help a lot.
6. Stop thinking for some time. The project will continue only if you stay healthy.
7. Talk to your spouse over the phone. Talking to someone who loves you makes you forget everything for a while.
8. Imagine that you are the only person living on the planet.
9. If your boss shouts at you, imagine that he is dead and you are dancing at his funeral.
10. Do moderate Yogasana and Pranayama exercises. Do not kill yourself with them!
11. If your family life is troubling you, it is time to bring your better half a gift and spend some fun time with each other.

Do not jog. Jogging is an excellent way to increase your stress levels. Everyday jogging is not a good option from any angle. If you are really stressed out at your office you need to stop jogging and go for morning walks. But your morning walk must include walking in the grass with bare feet for at least ten minutes. It has been found that walking on green grass (and also looking at it) makes your eyes feel cool and reduces the burning of stressed eyes.

If you take to too much of walking you are going the wrong way and increasing your stress while trying to decrease it. Let me make myself clear. Jogging is a remedy for those people who are inactive and who cannot put their bodies into immediate action. Thus, if you are active enough to get stressed at your workplace you do not need jogging. And if you are hyperactive and over stressed, jogging is again a big no. People who feel fatigued while working need to bring their cholesterol levels down and hence it is advised to them to go for a little bit of jogging. A stressed person doing jogging early in the morning is exactly like an overheated pan which may catch fire.

IT Stress? Then here is the solution:

No coffee. Coffee boosts your performance for a while and acts like a mild drug which triggers your brain into hyperactive mode. But the effect does not last for a long time. And hence you find many people in the IT industries going for a cup of coffee every hour or so. Coffee makes you feel stress free and fresh for a while but it increases the stress on your stomach. Too much of coffee will increase your chances of getting gastric. But, a brain stimulating beverage makes your brain happy and keeps it active and fresh. In such cases I would suggest you to go for tea. Tea is pretty mild and is also a medicine. I myself drink 300 ml tea whenever I plan for a night-out. The only problem that you might face (if you drink too much of tea) is that you will need to rush to the tinkle zone much frequently. But a little bit of tea will cause you no such trouble and will keep your mind and body healthy and fresh all day long.

Take frequent breaks. Whenever you feel that your body needs a little rest close your eyes till the burning dies out. Sitting for five minutes without thinking will give your brain a good break and it will feel fresh and work at a faster pace. This will also give some break to your tired fingers if you type too many codes or letters everyday. Stretch out and relax your complete body for a while. You will feel much better than before. Keep your eyes more on the keyboard and less on the screen. I type dozens of articles everyday and also write HTML codes sometimes. I do most of it by looking at the keyboard. This reduces the stress on your eyes. When the whole article or piece of code is over, look at the screen and fix your bugs while compiling the program. This will increase your concentration and save most of your time and keep your stress levels quite low. If you compile your program after typing every single line, you are wasting half of your time on something unnecessary and also increasing the stress on your eyes. Type the program top to bottom and then fix the bugs. This will give you the ability to see the whole program and fix the major bugs which require more attention. When you see a whole program, you get a general idea of what you have done and you get to know the exact piece of code which has to be altered. This is a quite effective technique and works very well in reducing your stress levels.

Simple things like maintaining a straight posture and keeping the computer screen as far as possible are very effective in stress reduction. I type tons of articles everyday and have to see the computer screen again and again. My eyes used to burn a lot under the stress it was subjected to at the onset of my web journey. And I spotted the exact reason one fine day. I reduced the brightness of the monitor and the stress on my eyes was reduced by almost three times. If you are going to spend too much time with the computer screen and your keyboard, it will be a good option to reduce the brightness of your screen to around 20% in order to keep the stress levels of your eyes low. Keep the background color blue if this option is present. Blue does not create much stress on your eyes and your eyes feel happy while watching the computer screen. At other times you may increase the brightness of the screen. Though this may seem to be a headache it is a very good tip to reduce the stress of your eyes which have to fight with the harsh computer screens everyday.

Sitting as far as possible from the computer is a good way of reducing your stress. The screen should be at least two feet away from your eyes. All the computer cables should be thrown to the farthest corner. It has been discovered that Electromagnetic waves flowing across these cables can create heart problems. Hence it is also a good option to keep you mobiles in the pocket of your trousers (away from the heart).

Take your time to see green trees. The green of nature makes your eyes feel very pleasant and will slowly drain its stress levels. Use eye drops no matter what your doctor says. It is a simple thing to understand: if you use eye drops your eyes will remain stronger for a longer time which will keep you away from the optician for many years. And hence your optician will look forth to make sure that you keep visiting him again and again by saying that you do not need eye drops. This will keep his pockets happy. Simple business! So, do not listen to anybody and use eye drops. Prevention is better than cure. If possible it is advisory to buy monochromatic powerless spectacles which keep UV rays away from your eyes and also protect it from the bright monitors.

One more thing: do not let your scalp become dry. Oiling the scalp will keep your eyes cool and your healthy eyes will be devoid of stress. The stress on a person’s eye who does not apply oil to his hair while watching a computer screen is much higher as compared to the stress on a person’s eye who has oiled his hairs. Non-sticky oils will also play the trick if you hate sticky oils. But as far as I know meditation is the best technique for stress reduction. Particularly Sahaja Yoga stress reduction meditation (completely free) was a very effective technique for stress reduction. For more information on it visit www.sahajayoga.org. The best part is that it is completely free and you won’t lose a buck nor will you lose any of your precious time while doing it. Hope the above information was useful.