How do you deal with stress while at work?
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Stress is your body's reaction to how you think about things.
Typically you feel a tightness across your shoulders and you may experience a shortness of breath.
Letting it go on too long may cause panic attacks because you feel you no longer can cope.
There are two things you can do. One is a mental exercise and the other a physical exercise.
Take a deep breath.
Remember some time when you felt you could really handle the situation, when you felt confident about your abilities.
Often when you are given a promotion you get that feeling that your efforts are being recognized. Thats the feeling you want to get.
See yourself doing your job now with that same feeling
Take another deep breath.
Several times during the day, stop for a moment, take a few deep breaths and remember how you felt.
Organize your day so that what has to be done is done first. Leave some time at the end of the day to do what you love doing. That way you go home feeling better than if you schedule it the other way.
Remember to smile at everyone you meet. And during breaks exchange jokes or stories with someone.
I have a website where I discuss ideas about thinking
http://themeaningisyou.com
Read the articles. They are free.
I learned how to deal with stress at work by not taking myself quite so seriously.
depends what work do you do?
breathe deep every now and then
take a break every couple of hours, walk around
go to the gym on your lunch break
smile!
I try to focus just on the task I'm working on, and block out everything else. If the stress is something outside of work, you need to set it aside, because you really can't resolve it when you're at work, wait till you get home. When stress gets to be too much, I stop and take some deep cleansing breaths to get calm, and ask God's peace to surround me, and think of the Serenity Prayer.
concentrate on the work not to get missed. avoid talking unless it is deemed necessary. and listen to the music (using a bluetooth with a very low sound just in case you'll be called up, then you can still hear them).
Check out this great site called www.relaxationhelp.com
it's the only site on the web that offers a free daily relaxation tip emailed directly you every day. It's a fun and informative site that takes on such serious issues as stress, office stress, financial stress, travel stress, lack of sleep and many others. It teaches people how to deal with a broad variety of circumstances.
I go to YouQA.com .
seriously.
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