Stress and Health Management: A Guide to Keeping Yourself Balanced
When coping with stress, many people only focus on what is causing their stress and attempt to fix this problem without making any changes to anything else in their lives. What they fail to realize is that stress and health management are tied together and if you are not living a healthy life, your stress levels will increase dramatically.
First Steps in Stress and Health Management
The first step in managing your health and stress should be to track everything going on in your life so you have a realistic picture of what is causing your stress and health management issues. Go to an office supply store and get a black scientific journal. For the first week do not try to make any changes in what you do day to day.
Write down everything that stress you out and at what times you get stressed. Also, write down what you are eating and any exercise that you may do throughout the week. Once the first week is complete you should have a very valuable and realistic look at what your weekly activities look like and can begin working on your stress and health management. The first thing to look for is what you are eating and doing on days you feel stressed. Did you skip breakfast only to get overwhelmed before lunch?
On days you work out do you notice that your stress levels the next day are lower? This helpful documentation will make stress and health management far easier. Most people after performing this exercise will look at everything going on in their lives and try to fix everything all at once. This is absolutely the wrong thing to do as radical change will cause more undesirable stress. The key to stress and health management is small incremental changes that effect your well being for good.
If you notice days that you do not eat breakfast you do become more stressed, for the first week try to make sure you eat something every morning and see how that affects your stress levels. Breakfast does not have to be something complicated, a simple piece of fruit or bowl of cereal should be all you need. Once you see a positive affect from the change you make, try to change something else. Slowly you will notice that your everyday life gets better and better with each small change and you will be well on your way to successful stress and health management.
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