It's time to relax; read below to know how

Today’s world is very stressful. Everyone live in a non-stop daily routine, connected to work all the hours of the day, not knowing how to relax at any time. What most of the people do not know is that if we never take our time, if we do not relax and chill out for a moment, we will not be able to work properly; it is impossible to do our job correctly if we do not permit our brain to relax a little bit. So it is very important to include the word “relax” in our ever-growing to-do-list!

Stress can have a big impact in our lives and it can have effects such as being unable to sleep, having really tight and sore shoulders. Stress also can have health risks like heart disease, strokes and high blood pressure. But as we can have all these problems, we can have the solutions too, that is why we can reduce the impact of stress just doing some things.

First of all, we can meditate. Meditation is the most important point of any stress management program. It helps to calm the mind and to relax the body. It is a good star for relaxing ourselves and it really can help us to improve sleep, concentration and well-being. We only have to practice it few minutes per day and it can help us so much to ease anxiety. To do it, we only have to sit up straight with both feet on the floor, close our eyes and focus our attention on reciting a positive mantra such as “I love myself”.

A second tool that relieves stress quickly is doing exercise. It is a healthy and easy way to relax, and there are a lot of types of sports to do. The most relaxing sports are yoga, tai chi or walking, but you also can play football, basketball, tennis, … Furthermore, you can meet new people and get fit at the same time. Even more, you only need ten or twenty minutes to feel clear, relaxed and calm. It does not matter which sport do you try to do exercise because all of them help you to gain clarity in your thoughts, which were stressing you out become less important. It also helps you to gain clarity in your thoughts because you can see what is important or what can be let go of.

Finally, another technique we can use is breathing properly. We can do it everywhere just closing our eyes and counting to three. However, if we would like to do it deeper it is also very easy. We just have to put our hand on our stomach and feel how does it move when we breathe. We have to pay attention to it, how we breathe out and allow our stomach to deflate. This is going to calm us completely.

With these three easy steps everyone knows how to de-stress. The next step is just to try it out. A lot of people think that there is no time to do it, even to try it. Have someone think why? It is just because we live in this stressing world. It is time to think about it. We must work, obviously, but we also have to relax and to have fun. We must considerate our twenty-four hours a day and distribute it equitably! We will work better and be happier. Now it is the moment!