It's getting to that time of year where stress ramps up for many of us. Here are are tips to avoid becoming overwhelmed.
1. Quit Sugar
It artificially gives you a brief energy high, then you still come crashing down. Which really mucks with your metabolism!
2. Take a Vitamin B Complex
Can Reduce Stress and Boost Mood
B-complex vitamins can improve general mental health and stress and enhanced performance on cognitive tests and reduce mental fatigue.
3. Take Magnesium
300 mg - 400 mg a day with plenty of water.Magnesium can reduce muscle tightness and fatigue, reduce anxiety, reduce migraine symptoms, decrease the risk of Type 2 diabetes.
4. Get some professional help
Get some professional help for specific advice of on vitamins or medications for your naturopath or general practitioner
Getting adjusted can help your body switch from it's Fight-or-Flight-or-Freeze state, to it's rest-and-repair state.Not to mention, relieving aches and pains.
6. Take a step back
If you are overwhelmed, stepping outside, stepping away and allowing yourself to reset can help
7. Breathe
Deep breathing slows yours physiology.To use the 4-7-8 technique, focus on the following breathing pattern:
empty the lungs of air
breathe in quietly through the nose for 4 seconds
hold the breath for a count of 7 seconds
exhale forcefully through the mouth for 8 seconds
8. Exerciseto at rate that is at least 70% of your max heart rate, a bit of a sweat, which in turn gives you a natural endorphin boost when you finish.
9. Stretchfor 10 minutes, slowly, reverse your typical posture
10. Ask yourself "Does it really have to happen now…or can it wait just a little while after your rested or feeling a bit better."
