Stress And How To Avoid It

Everyone knows that stress isn't good - that it can get ontop of us and effect our wellbeing. What most people don'trealise is that stress can effect much more than just ourmood or mental state. Stress has been shown to have adetrimental effect on many parts of our body and indeedpeoples health in general.

Most people are so used to stress and tension in their livesthat they do little or nothing about it until it begins tohave major negative effects on them. Everyone suffers fromstress - but it is important to sit up and take notice whenthat stress begins to effect you.

Stress has a negative effect on your mental processes, itcan make you moody, anxious and unable to calmly cope withlife. However stress effects all of your body. Stress cancause many afflictions such as high heart rate and bloodpressure difficulties. These are two key indicators ofstress being a problem so if you suffer from them then it istime to try to reduce the stress in your life. By actingearly you can dramatically reduce your stress level and yourhealth should return to normal.

If you're wondering about whether or not you should reducestress in your daily life, the answer is probably yes. Evenif you do not feel overly stressed out all that often,stress reduction will still improve your life. Since beingtoo stressed can have major long term effects on yourhealth, this is one case where you're probably better safethan sorry.

Reducing your stress is not difficult, a little time spentplanning how to change your life can make a huge difference.A small effort will go a long way to making you feel betterabout yourself and others.

The first thing that you should do is to sit down and make alist of all the things that are causing you to be stressedout. It doesn't matter whether or not you think somethingshould be stressful - write down anything that genuinely isstressful to you. Then, go through the list again and seewhich things you can eliminate from your life.

Obviously you wont be able to elminate everything on yourlist from your life, there are some things like work thatare simply necessary. But there will be lots of things onyour list that you genuinely can address. Doing this, evenwith only a few of the things on your list, can make all thedifference in your stress level.

Relaxation is something that you should add to your scheduleon a regular basis. There are few things that reduce youroverall stress level like a good time spent relaxing.Therefore, you should set aside a period everyday to relax -and make sure that it's actually scheduled, after all,you're doing it for your health.

Exercise is another excellent way to combat stress, it willmake you feel better and more confident. It is particularlygood because it will make you fitter also, so your healthwill benefit doubly.

If you start working on stress reduction, you should startseeing improvements in your health right away. Also, evenif you are not noticing that your health is improving rightaway, you should still feel confident that it is - the morerelaxed you are, the better you should feel. Start workingon stress reduction today, and have a healthier lifetomorrow!

Peter Sachford is the webmaster of FP Health which is a popular and extensive resource for health information.For more information, go to:http://www.fphealth.com