My top 5 ways to relieve stress

Many people get stressed. It can be about all kinds of things and often concerning things like school, performance, relationships and our careers. When I was younger I decided that stress was not for me so since then I have tried to prevent stress from happening. Now I want to share my 5 best ways to relieve stress so we can all live a stressfree life. Of course this may or may not work for you but something to consider.

1. Meditation

Mediation helps to clear your head and keep your focus during the day. I usually only mediate for 10-15 mins per day but even though it is a small quantity the calm breathing and mindfullness during those minutes help a lot. It makes me more deliberate and aware of my feelings and in this way I can notice the stress early on and deal with it.

2. Laughing

Did you know that children in average laugh about 300 times a day while grown ups laugh about 5 times a day. I think it is a pity because laughing is seriously the best. If you are feeling stressed I dare you to call your funniest friend, watch a comedian or read funny stories. Laughing relieves your stress response and relaxes your whole body. Laughter helps to release endorphins which is a feel good chemical and lower your cortisol levels.

3 Training

Training similar with laughing makes your brain pump out endorphins which was the feel good chemical. This will ease tension and you will feel relaxed and excited afterward. If you manage to implement this as a habit it help your general mood and your sleep, and we all know the stress of not sleeping enough.

4 Planing (prevention before cure)

Plan your week or even month. If you know what stressful events that are going to happen and what you have to be done with then you can schedule it. It helps to ease your mind by transferring your thoughts to a paper. When you know what you have to do and have a reasonable timeplan it is much easier to manage it.

5 Look it from a bigger perspective

Sometimes you have to stop taking everything so seriously this includes yourself. Try to look at the stress from a bigger perspective. Will this matter in 5 years? Have I not encounter worse? Have other people experienced similar things and survived? Yeah you get it.