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Sunday, May 14, 2023
Finding out what stresses you out personally is the first step to changing for the better. Whether you are struggling to accept how your body is changing with your current work out routing or if you are struggling with day-to-day pressures and annoyances, stress management calls for mental action in two areas: assessment and change.
First, developing healthy coping mechanisms and responses to people and circumstances can help you develop positive self-esteem. To successfully handle stress, it's important to practice self-esteem techniques, concentrate on thinking positively about yourself, and analyze your self-talk to cut down on unreasonable reactions. Instead of dwelling on the past, pay attention to the present.
Second, you need to build the mental abilities required to react effectively and productively, which takes time, practice, and exposure to a range of stressful situations because you can't always predict what the next stressor will be.
Consider a stressor once you've identified it. Can you modify the situation to lessen the amount of suffering you are feeling, or do you need to adapt your behaviors and reaction to lessen stress levels? Once you have recognized and evaluated your stressors, one helpful strategy for managing them is to intentionally anticipate and preapre for some of them in advance, a practice known as stress inoculation.
Not the people or situations themselves, but our evaluations, thoughts, and conecpts of those things are what make these things stressful. We must first become aware of our negative self talk, then halt it, and replace the negative beliefs with positive ones—a process known as cognitive restructuring—in order to combat it.
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/about/copingwith-stresstips.html
https://www.concordia.ca/cunews/offices/provost/health/topics/stress-management/cognitive-restructuring- examples.html#:~:text=Cognitive%20restructuring%20is%20a%20technique,that%20do%20not%20produce%20stress.
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