Fight with stress
Simple exercises and ways to relieve stress:
Fear or anger make us slouch and bury our heads in our arms. Effect? Worse blood supply and unnaturally tense muscles, which causes neck and headaches. Therefore, to overcome stress, you need to straighten up, lift your head, move it, relax your shoulders. You can also stretch like a cat. Then make a few circles with your arms and grab your hands behind your back.
When stress hits you, stand up and suck in your belly, then take 10 deep breaths. Inhale as much air as possible and exhale slowly. Just think about breathing, it’s an effective way to deal with stress.
Under stress, you clench your jaw in a subconscious defensive gesture. This can lead to chronic headaches. You will unlock them by yawning a few times.
Close the curtains, turn off the phone. Lie on your back and put a flat pillow under your head. Straighten your legs, move your hands away from your body and slightly bend your elbows (you can rest them on your hips). Breathe slowly and deeply, and mentally repeat to yourself, “I am lying still, breathing slowly and evenly.” Concentrate on the parts of your body, think about them intensely to push away gloomy thoughts. After a few minutes, stretch, slowly sit up and go back to your interrupted activities.
Isometric gymnastics also gives excellent effects in the fight against stress. Lie comfortably, tense your entire body for a count of ten, and then relax your calves, thighs, buttocks, stomach, chest, and arms in turn. Rest for a while and repeat this exercise at least 5-8 times. Then lie down for a minute, breathing calmly and deeply.
It is the senses that register the stimuli that cause stress. So try to offer them something relaxing. The sight of the trees, the garden, the sea offers almost immediate relief. Also the sound of waves, falling rain, singing birds are really soothing to the nerves. Classical music works this way too. The smell of your favorite perfume, fruit or flowers relaxes you almost immediately. It has recently been discovered that nothing is as relaxing as the smell of cut grass.
Scented candles can also be a way to relieve stress – cinnamon, lavender, cedar. The smell of fresh oranges, baked cake or coffee brewed with cardamom has a relaxing effect. And in the bedroom it is good to keep sachets scented with herbs.το. Κοιμηθείτε για τουλάχιστον 7-8 ώρες την ημέρα.
