COPING WITH STRESS

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Stress is something that many people face at the present time. More and more competition in all aspects of human life make one's stress level becomes larger. Stress is not a disease, but if you can not handle it in a certain time, you will be exposed to many health problems.

Some of the main things that can cause stress in the workplace include:
- The working conditions are always under pressure
- Unclear assignment
- Demand for goods is very high
- Lack of planning work
- The threat among employees
- Shouts and curses of the consumer
- Friend of work which is always annoying
- Physical discomfort, such as a noisy engine sound, etc. less ventilation.
- and the worst, the lack of improvement to overcome the above problems.

These things can cause physical and mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, nervousness, unable to focus for a long time and prolonged fatigue.
If there is anything above that you feel, I think you should immediately change your daily activities both at work and in your life as a whole.



Here are 9 tips to overcome stress in the workplace:

1. Plan your activities well: what, why, how, when and who is responsible for the tasks. It is important to plan not only long term but also short-term (monthly plan, daily plan).

2. Certainly in the past you have experienced problems in the workplace. Try to remember again is there any ways that you can use to troubleshoot problems that you face today.

3. Come build a pleasant working climate, that is by being open and communicating with fellow co-workers.

4. Make sure you understand the duties and responsibilities towards you, and do not hesitate to ask.

5. Do this several times a break for a few minutes while you work. Relax and DO NOT DO ANY KIND. Take a deep breath.

6. Have the attitude of tolerance to fellow coworkers. Remember that each person is unique individual, for example: some people actually perform better under pressure while others require more time to finish the job.

7. Delegate some of your responsibilities to your subordinates.

8. Keep your team spirit, for example by conducting small celebrations, sports or recreational activities together.

9. Provide a good working environment. Minimize distractions such as sound, ventilation, light and temperature.

Besides the stress in the workplace, in life in general, we too can experience stress for several reasons.



Here are 8 tips to overcome stress in life:

1. Perform body massage (body massage), because massage great for relaxation and blood pressure penormalan. After the massage, you will experience improved sleep quality, of course, will restore your fatigue better.

2. Exercising regularly is very important in combating stress. Exercising will mobilize our muscles, accelerate the blood flow and opens the lungs for more oxygen mangambil. The impact you will get a more restful sleep and better health.

3. Make your hobby, like fishing, hiking or whatever you like. You can also do an adventure that you've never experienced before, such as rafting berarung suppose.
Carry out activities such as this can eliminate the thoughts that cause stress.

4. Many assumptions that says that beer, wine or whiskey to relieve stress. In fact, water was the one who can relieve stress. Research shows that drinking a glass or 2 glasses of wine can indeed cause us to relax the time, but after missing the alcohol effects, stress is likely to wake you up at night.
With many drinking water will help restore our bodies from lack of fluids, because dehydration can cause fatigue.

5. Meditate. Health experts say that a very powerful tool in overcoming stress is meditation. Meditation helps cleanse our mind and improve concentration. It has been proven that meditating for 15 minutes the same as we rest for 1 hour. Even if you only do meditation for 2 minutes, still be quite helpful.
Meditation will help you forget the things that can cause stress.

6. When someone is experiencing stress, a natural reaction if the person then take it out to eat lots of food. You should know that eating foods containing high carbohydrates can increase insulin levels in the body, where insulin is to make the body becomes tired quickly and you become a bad mood.

7. Sex is a very good healing to relieve stress. Many doctors say that sex is an extraordinary way in reducing anger and stress.

8. If the body is tired, not easy for us in controlling stress. Not enough sleep will affect our whole day, and usually we have a bad day because of lack of sleep cause we can not concentrate and see a worse problem than they should. Sleep is good for adults is 7 hours a day.



Know that every person has a tendency to experience stress in different ways. Actually controlling the stress is not as difficult as dipikikan, this is just a matter of how we see things from different angles. Read and follow these tips or techniques to control stress also will help us.