5 Stress Management Secrets Every Busy Woman Should Know

Stress kills more people than one can ever imagine. Regardless of the fact that stress affects our lives in the worst ways, there are people who still deny calling it a psychological disorder. Living a life full of stress hinders our everyday activities and reduces our ability to live happily. When stressed out, one is more prone to catch diseases and fall sick. So women, here’s a post for you to tell you the stress management secrets by David Martin.

Stress Management Secrets

I am a working woman myself, and our hectic work lives, as well as many responsibilities, contribute to our stress. Hence, it is necessary to know the Stress Management-tips and tricks to alleviate stress.

• De-Clutter Your Life

You may have seen a few episodes of the home makeover shows and observed how they clear out the entire clutter from their space and reorganize it afterward and only keep the things that are crucial to living a happy life. You need to follow the same pattern to make things right in your life as well.

The first and foremost thing you should do is make your mind empty by clearing out all the clutter. Once you’re done, return all those things that are essential for you to live happily, for example, your family, friends, job and resting time.

Organize everything according to their level of importance in your life. Besides, make sure to add some new things that are beneficial for a healthy life, for instance, meditation, exercise and more.

This way, you can get a clear idea of the things that are feeding you and things that you need to eliminate.

• Exercise

Exercise is not only beneficial for stress relief but your overall wellbeing. There are numerous kinds of exercises that you can try; the good news is each one of them brings along stress-busting advantages.

• It increases endorphins: Endorphins are neurotransmitters that are responsible for your good mood. Exercise on a regular basis can help improve the levels of endorphins naturally.
• Call it moving meditation: After a few minutes of exercise, you will get to know that your body is getting free of stress with every body movement. With regular physical moves, you can shed all your tensions, and it will result in providing you with positive energy, and you will have a clean and calm mind.
• It improves your mood: Daily exercise is something that can relax you, increase your sense of self and decrease your symptoms of anxiety as well as depression. Stress can disrupt your sleep as well and exercise on a regular basis can regulate your sleep cycle. Isn’t it magical?

All in all, exercise can help decrease your levels of stress hormones. Also, it can contribute to your self-confidence in the best possible way.

• Medicinal Herbs

It has become quite difficult to steer clear from symptoms of stress in this busy world. There are a number of herbal medicines that you can try in order to get rid of stress. And it is always better to try medicinal herbs instead of prescription drugs. Following are some of the well-known medicinal herbs for stress relief:

• Kava Root: Rendering to studies, kava is a great stress relief herb. You can take it in the form of capsules containing kava extract or merely consume it in tea. This herb can calm you in a number of ways; for example, it can relieve sleep-related disorders, restlessness, muscle spasm and symptoms of depression.
• Kratom: Kratom comes with an active ingredient known as mitragynine, which intercepts the brain’s opioid receptors that helps in pain relief. Other than that, kratom calms your mind as well as soothes your nerves relieving stress and anxiety. Before trying it out, you can consult your physician and ask him about the use of kratom for stress reduction.
• Chamomile: It is another medicinal herb that relieves stress and anxiety, reduces insomnia and relaxes the nerves. It also works great in relieving headache. You can easily consume chamomile in the form of tea.  

Remember that medicinal herbs are safer than any other thing as they have minimal to no side effects. Another bonus point is that they are not very expensive as well as easy to find.

• Stay Organized

When looking for balance in life, you ought to be organized. Try and fit everything in your routine in an organized manner, and you will find yourself working more efficiently. When you know that you will eventually get it all done, it instantly relaxes you. For this, you can always rely on time management tools that are mostly available online and that too, for free.

Prioritize the peace of your mind! It is the best way to get clarity in every phase of life.

• Do Not Procrastinate

You may have heard the phrase, ‘tomorrow never comes until it’s too late.’ Therefore, you must not leave your work for the coming day. Get your tasks done as soon as you can. Procrastination is something unhealthy and when you leave your work for tomorrow, it never really gets done.

You need to stay focused and concentrate on the present only. You can also call it ‘living in the moment.’ When one is focused, she is able to complete all the tasks in a well-organized way. Hence, you need to give your best to everything you do and stay focused on the goals of your life. The less you think about stressful things in life, the better it gets.

Bonus tip: Last but not least, try to be happy. When you stay happy, your body remains relaxed, and it directly lowers your stress hormones. Remember that stress hormones and your mood work in co-relation. For this, you can try various things like yoga, deep breathing exercises, and a balanced diet. But at last, it is the contentment of your heart and mind that eventually leads to a prosperous life, free of stress and full of happiness. Have a wonderful day!