How To Relieve Stress With Mental Toughness?

Knowing how to relieve stress at work is more about your mental toughness than picking the right stress management techniques.

Do people around your office make you feel frustrated?

Customers, clients, colleagues and even your boss can makes you feel stressed with their individual characters and behaviors.

Then you need to make yourself mentally tough.

Mental toughness is an essential stress relief skill required to be resilient to all the pressures and stresses in your working environment.

Feeling frustrated and upset with what someone has said or had done create tension and stress to your body.

Ronald Glaser, director of Ohio State University's Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research acknowledges that stress produce abnormal changes in the immune system.

Ronald Glaser and his wife Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, a clinical psychologist also from Ohio State University studied the mind-body connection.

They found that chronic stress and psychological stress impeded wounds from healing and impaired the effectiveness of vaccines and stresses also weaken the immune system of caregivers. usatoday

Physically you will easily feel tired and emotionally sensitive.

Your body becomes prone to back pain, headache, faster heart beat, upset stomach and sweating.

However, there is more positive effect created when you responded to these potentially stressful situations.

Carol Ryff, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said that there is a science emerging that says a positive attitude is not just a state of mind.

It also has links to what is going on in your brain and in your body." usatoday

Without realizing it, when you react and respond to the people at work, you are creating tensions and stress to your body.
Stress does not happen to you, it happens because of you.

You unwittingly increased the stress to your own life.

What should you do about it?

* Change your focus.

* Train your mind to focus on solutions not the problems.

* Be open minded, do not have negative aspects of people that bother you.

* Move on, do not dwell on the problems.

* Focus on what you want not what you do not want.

* Solve the problems or mistakes instead of being upset because someone disagrees with you.

* Put your mind on the task at hand not on other people's opinions of you.

* Look at all the goodness you can achieve instead of hating yourself up over one or two mistakes.

* Be on your good nature and sense of humour when with a demanding client.

Studies have found that pain is a psychologically constructed experience. msnbc

How to relieve stress is not about finding the ideal stress management technique.

There will always be people who say and do things you do not like, those who disagree with your opinion and disapproved of your choices.

If you let these resistances undermine with what you do, you will never be free of stress and pressure.

Looking for ways on how to relieve stress will makes you ignore the solutions that is closest to home which is your own thoughts and actions.

Finding stress relief is not as simple as picking up a stress management book and try out all the suggested stress management techniques.

Instead, be mindful of what you focus on and watch your stress shift.

One positive lesson that comes out of this situation is realizing that life is too short to waste time getting drained from stress just because of what or how other people communicate with you.

Live today and at every moment because there is no guarantee of what tomorrow will bring.

Posted by: Mo Salle

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