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watching funny YouTube videos. When it being overloaded or overwhelmed, and
comes to stress relief, laughter is an instant responding with issues that cause you
fix, when you’re laughing you’re enhancing stress. Are you sitting in traffic swearing?
your intake of oxygen-rich air, which Getting more headaches or stomach aches
helps your heart, lungs, and muscles. Plus, lately? Take it as a cue to ask yourself how
you’re releasing feel-good hormones like to get out of the current situation. Maybe
endorphins, which can ease tension and you need to roll your shoulders a few times
add to an overall sense of well-being. and then go take a short walk. It’s about
building up an awareness and having the
15. Work with your Hands and Get self-knowledge to check in and adjust.
Creative
Creative and artistic endeavours like
drawing, painting, or knitting, gardening
can be relaxing for a lot of people. For
some people it’s a chance to tune out
other distractions and focus on one thing
at a time. For others, it’s an outlet to
express emotions. As we grow older, our
handwriting and signature changes. It
is important to practice your signature,
so that there are no problems with
banking and other legal documents. Don’t 18. Avoid Mindless Snacking
underestimate the power of creativity to Are you snacking because you’re bored
ease your mind and bring you joy. and eating thoughtlessly from your snack
drawer that is within easy reach? Rather
16. Travel through Food than self-impose strict rules on what foods
YouTube is full of recipes from different are off-limits, try intuitive eating. It’s not
countries, different foods of various a diet so much as a way of eating that’s all
cultures from all over the world. Hence, about giving your body what it needs when
even if you can’t travel abroad, you can it needs it. Intuitive eating doesn’t restrict
take a trip there via YouTube. One way to any specific foods or have you counting
do this is to follow the recipe from a place calories. It’s a practice in which you listen
that you have never been too improvising to your body and pay attention to what you
in your own way. It could end up being need in the moment.
completely different but as you go along
tasting it at every step you could end up 19. Practise Gratitude
with something completely different but Practise gratitude and be grateful and kind
nevertheless delicious. to others for what’s going right in your life.
Clinical studies have found that people who
17. Understand and Be Aware of what regularly practice gratitude report better
gives you Stress well-being, physical health, and increased
Self-care is about knowing how and optimism about the future. Practising
what gives you stress. When you’re kindness is sometimes easier said than
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