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Manage your physical and psychological well-being so you can resist harmful effects of stressful events.
- Have people you can turn to for emotional support
- Be moderate in your consumption of coffee, tea, soft drinks, and drugs containing caffeine. Caffeine stimulates the sympathetic nervous system and may promote even more nervousness and tension
- Eat an adequate breakfast each day (hunger can leave you less able to cope with stress).
- Stretching and flexing muscles of the neck, arms, shoulder, back, thighs, and midsection reduce the chance that these muscles will tighten up and produce common indicators of stress-headaches, neck ache, and backache.
- Regular exercise will also aid in elevating your mood and encourage a healthy self-concept, improving your ability to cope with stress.
Monitor your present level of stress so that you can recognize early warning signs of stress and do something about the problems causing it.
- Recognizing early warning signals of stress-related problems is the second step in reducing damage caused by stress.
Maneuver to avoid extremely stressful situations by eliminating the causes of stress and changing your reactions to stressful events.
- Arrange stress - plan around stressful situations.l Try not to plan stressful activities at the same time.
- Have a positive attitude
- Accept and discuss - accept the fact that you are going to have stress and that you can control the unwanted side effects.
- Clarify responsibility - set clear priorities for yourself and your family
- Improve time management - Time, managed well, can help reduce stress resulting from too much to do in too little time.
- Learn to RELAX!
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