37 Stress Reducers
March 5, 2007 by Liz Lewis
Filed under How To, Philosophy, Prevention, Treatment, Your Mind
Reader’s Digest has posted 37 stress reducers and they kick off their list with a doozy that everyone should take to heart.
1. Embrace the number one truth about stress: Only you create it. Stress isn’t defined as a large workload, a difficult child, or a rise in terrorism. Stress is your physical and mental reaction to these external stimuli. Remember the truism about alcoholism? The one that says admitting you are an alcoholic is more than 50 percent of the cure? The same is true for stress: Embracing the fact that stress is your reaction to external stimuli — and not the stimuli themselves — is half the battle toward managing it. You can’t change a crazy world. But you can learn to handle it with humor, humility, and hope. Not coincidentally, virtually every stress-relief method that follows is about how to improve your reaction to external factors…
It’s a good list and well worth a bookmark in my, er, book.
37 Ways to Calm Down Fast – Reader’s Digest via Lifehack.org
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