When it Comes to Stress, Prevention is Better Than Cure

September 11, 2006 by Vishal | No Comments

Rather than find ways and means of trying to reduce stress and get back to your normal life, sticking to the common saying ‘prevention is better than cure’ applies very well. There are some extremely easy and simple techniques that you can follow to ensure that stress does not hit you in the first place. These techniques do not include harmful practices like drugs and alcohol that reduce your efficiencies but involve ensuring such basic steps that they may sound superficial and a bit too simple. But following them can make a lot of difference to the levels of stress that you have to handle.

The first of these techniques is to ensure that you live life as your own self and not disguised as what you think you should be or what you think other people would like to see you as. So stop being the perfect daughter in law or the cool dude if that is not what you are. Trying to live a double life continuously puts you on the guard and causes tension. Relax and be yourself. This can result only from a certain acceptance of what you are. Understand that each individual has positive and negatives and focus on the positives. Analyze your fears and try and understand what causes them. Facing your fears and overcoming them will allow you to gain confidence and a positive self-image that will ensure that you can take on the world as you, yourself, without having to hide behind the mask of another person.

Try and choose to be with people who are cheerful most of the time. People who have a negative, pessimistic and dreary outlook to life tend to pull down those around them. They find faults with everything that is happening around them. Understand that relationships are a give and take phenomenon and there is a need to compromise with others at times. Rigidity about various aspects in life is only likely to cause discomfort and lead to stress.

While making decisions try and chose the ‘right’ path. Cheating, lying and immoral behavior causes you to feel guilty at some level and can create tensions that you are not even aware of. Don’t be fickle minded about tough decisions that need to be taken. Procrastination and postponement tends to create unfinished business which becomes an irritant and cause of stress.

Spending a few minutes alone each day is a good habit. It allows you to touch with your inner voice and enables you to think clearly. You could take an early morning walk or listen to some soothing music at the end of the day. Slow down the pace of your life. If you go about life as if you need to accomplish something each day, you will tend of get frustrated. Enjoy the path and take time to watch the flowers as you go by.

Following these basic principles can ensure that you do not have to face stress and resort to various measures trying to fight it.

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