How to choose your stress management method
Have you decided to take charge of your life and learn to manage your stress? Congratulations!
After you've put some tips into practice in your life, you want to dig deeper, but you don't know which method to choose.
There are indeed many different methods and one can sometimes get lost.
In this article, I suggest you discover 7 essential principles for choosing your stress management method (s):
- body and mind are one
We feel like we have a mind and a body.
However, it is not! We have a body-mind.
What happens in the body affects our mind, what we think always has repercussions on our physical feeling.
You are not convinced?
First the first ...
What do you think?
What do you perceive as emotions?
How do you feel for a physical sensation?
Then the second ...
What do you think?
What do you perceive as emotions?
How do you feel for a physical sensation?
Are you convinced now?
A good method of stress management can have a psychic approach, but will have an impact on your body or mainly physical: on your actions, on your motivation, on your social life and even on your social life and your libido.
- Our bodily experience is a precious ally in managing stress
We are usually totally cut off from our bodies and the signals they send us. Too preoccupied with our “do” mode, we are too infrequently connected to our physical sensations.
A good stress management method must take this dimension into account in order to rehabilitate our body.
- Breathing is our best help
Of the 20,000 breaths you took yesterday, how many were you really aware of?
Breathing is fundamental, because it is one of the only functions in the body which is both voluntary and involuntary.
But also, because you only need to hold your breath for a few moments to realize how important it is.
A good stress management method should be based on breathing.
- Only the present tense exists
Stress is in a way a disease of time: instead of living centered on the present, we live preoccupied with a future that is not yet there and tormented by a past that is no longer. However, it is precious to be fully aware of how we are feeling, without judgment, in the present moment.
A good method of stress management should give us the experience of the present moment.
Our brain is endowed with plasticity
We are sure now. Our brains are not frozen. He can learn and unlearn. Also, it is possible to make him stop taking certain circuits to make him take new ones. As simple as that.
A good method of stress management should teach us other perspectives on past situations or future events.
- our brain needs regular training
Just like physical training, stress management training should be repeated, repeated, repeated. Regular practice is the key to successful lasting change.
A good stress management method should include regular exercise that you do almost every day.
- autonomy of practice is a key element
After a guided learning phase, the person must become an actor in their health and well-being and become fully autonomous in their practice.
A good method of stress management must allow perfect autonomy of the practice.
In total,
8 stress management methods caught my attention.
These are Sport, Sophrology, Autogenic Training, Acupuncture, Cardiac Coherence, Hypnosis, EMDR
If you think a quality method should be on this list, please let me know.
One final tip: try to stick to a practice, then dig deeper. If it doesn't suit you, try a different one, but don't multiply several practices right away.
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