How to De-Stress?

Work and school can often become too much for us to handle, we get stressed almost every day, it piles up and it burns us out and it starts to affect our health. When you live with stress for a long time, it’s like you are slowly but surely killing yourself because it could cause serious illnesses to us. 

Without us knowing it, we are causing harm to our body because we don't know when we have to take time to relax and to take some time off from the pressure and the energy-draining work that we have to do. 

Here are some of the ways you can relieve yourself from all the stress work or school or life is causing you.

Leave the Office or Your Work Physically and Mentally

Admit it, we often get obsessed with our work that wherever we may be, we think about it. While walking in a mall, while having a dinner out and sometimes even when we are sleeping. We have to learn to turn ourselves off from the office or our work because it can cause us to feel stressed.

Even when you are at home or at a vacation, you may feel that sense of obligation that you have to answer calls and emails right away, that should not be the case. We should also know how to distance ourselves from our work. You can allot some time at the evening for all of the emails and the phone calls you have to return and make, thirty minutes will already be enough, when the time is already up, turn off your mobile or laptop and have some time for yourself. Just don’t do it right before you go to bed.

Make a Chill Out Routine

This works the same way that a ritual before bedtime puts you in the right mood and state of mind to sleep, a chill out routine will get you to the mood for relaxing. It can just be the simple things that you do as soon as you get home from work, like changing from your work clothes to a comfortable clothing because it can instantly change your mindset. Then do something to change your pace like a dip in the swimming pool or a nice, a warm bath with scented candles or maybe just by listening to relaxing music while you are having a tea or wine.

Balance Your Activity and Rest

Sometimes, we go and plan all of the stuff we are going to do when our free day comes, we try to cram everything we want to do in that two days we have off from work that we sometimes cram when it is already time to go back to reality. You can do all these exciting and fun activities that you want but you should always find time to just sit down and give your body time recharge or even just an hour in one day. Sit down, watch a movie or a tv show or flip through a magazine, chill activities are good too.