Steemit Weekly Health Challenge #3;Let Me Teach You My Own Way Of De-stressing.

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Are you looking for the perfect solution for your depression?
Do you want to get rid of stress and its bad effects?

Suffer no more! I've compiled every potent solution and preventive precautions into this article, and these are basically my own way of de-stressing. Read and be liberated.
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According to Marian Webster dictionary,
De-stress is defined as the act of releasing bodily or mental tension.
Of course, your mental health is as relevant as your physical health, and I, just like other well-meaning medical practitioners, believe that both are linked. Moments of depression, oftentimes, leads to irrational decisions, unprogressive actions and unprecedented downfalls. The only way we can prevent the effects of depression is to de-stress ourselves and relieve our minds off psychological burdens and emotional traumas.
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WHY YOU NEED TO DE-STRESS?

Stress reduces your mental output: Many think over-working is tantamount to bogus income but with time, the reverse becomes the case. When our brain becomes over-loaded, we will not be able to give our best and even though we might still do more but the quality-drop will gradually become obvious.
Depression destroys your relationships: Our society is filled with many business owners, who do not have good homes. Most times, these set of persons become anti-social because of their inability to balance their work and relationships altogether. Then, after making all their money, they end up unfulfilled and their long years of unrepentant struggle collapses into the pits of vanity.
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HOW TO DE-STRESS

  • Never underestimate the power of a 10 Minute Walk, try it:

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Taking a ten minutes walk helps clear your mind and increases endorphins which, in turn, lessen stress hormones. Every morning, before going to work, consider walking in your garden or park.
Moreover, spending time in nature has been linked to a reduction in stress and also found to improve memory and attention by ~20 percent. Most times I take a walk, I do experience a boost in energy levels and this often make me come to life and feel relaxed.

  • Eat a Snack during your free time:

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The gut-brain axis is a connection between the gut and brain, which is a huge and major mediator of the stress response. Since stress is a brain and immune coordination mediated phenomena and your gut remains the largest organ in your immune system, Picking up a snack will fill you up and give you a feeling of nourishment.

  • Stay away from the screen

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Uncontrolled computer use has been linked with stress, depression and lost sleep in humans. Make sure you take consistent time offs during your day of computer use and for goodness sake, try going offline for at least an hour before bedtime.
Basically, our smart phones emits bright blue light during the day and this could be seen in a sunny day. However, at night, the brain get confused by this light, because it reproduces the brightness of the sun, and this eventually brings a stop in the production of melatonin by the brain. Melatonin is an hormone that regulates sleep and wakefulness. It can therefore be said that; smartphone light can disrupt the sleep cycle, thereby, making it harder to fall and stay asleep which poses a danger to our well being. This danger might be in form of stress since the brain is not allowed to settle.

  • Play Music

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Although classical music has a chiefly cooling effect, as it slows heart rate, lowers blood pressure and even, decrease levels of stress hormones, any lovely music will fill your brain with stress-reducing brain chemicals for example dopamine. Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter and neuromodulator in the brain, as it helps in proper functioning of the body. Therefore, any means by which their production can be enhanced in the brain could help in maintain proper functioning of the body system which would eventually leads to a way of being free from stress. E.g, listening to cool musics as said before.

However, our choice of music might vary from one person to another, as some would prefer listening to a fast-beat song and some a slow-beat one. All you have to do in this case is to know and go for the kind of music that suites you better and will eventually produce the desired effect.

  • Sleep Well

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The main cause of stress and depression is the lack of proper sleep. Although sleep requirements differ from individual to individual, most adults need between 7-9 hours of sleep at night to do their best.
However, there is a great connection between stress and sleep; when you are stressed up you might not be able to sleep, when you are able to sleep, the issue of being stressed up is annulled.

How then will you be able to manage stress along with sleep?

The first thing I did when I needed this the most was to set a bedtime and a wake-up time in accordance to the number of hours I was currently getting then. In that case, I was sleeping for only 4 hours a night, even though I did plan to sleep 7 hours. However, I set my sleep time at that 4 hours and gradually increase by 15 minutes every four nights. After sometime, I increased this to 30 minutes.

This was actually borne on the fact that I wanted to shorten the middle of the night-time awakening and gradually increase the amount of sleep I would get during the night.

Because stress could lead to insomnia, the second method I adopted was to start getting rid of unnecessary works hours, say 3 hours to bedtime; because, a person with insomnia needs a “buffer zone,” a period of time to allow the activating processes, as well as the alerting mechanisms to decrease their activities so that the sleep systems can take over. Stop all work and end phone calls to family and friends, as often they are activating. Watching television is all right in the evening. However, an hour before bed, I recommend reading or listening to music as they could help to induce sleep.

Finally, focus on conditioning yourself for different sleep behavior. Insomnia is painful for people. It can take control of their lives. When someone suffering from insomnia walks into their bedroom, they often feel anxious, uncomfortable and tense, as they know from their experience that they might spend the night tossing and turning. They need to set up a situation so that they like going to their bedroom. The bedroom should be visually pleasing and very comfortable. One should use the bedroom only for sleep, sex, and changing clothes – pleasant activities. If awake in the night, one should leave the bed and bedroom and spend “unpleasant” times awake in another room. “Waking” activities such as working on the computer, talking with one’s partner, talking on the phone and watching TV should take place out of the bedroom.

Conclusively, it is important to note the benefits of an indispensable 10-minute walk, spicy snack, lessened computer use, refreshing music and proper sleeping are unlimited. The proper practice of these above-mentioned de-stress methods will make your life better as it has made mine.
Remember; Health is wealth...

Thanks for reading

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hi @acheever, thx for your memo message. I was away for couple of days and just managed to come back home. ps. you mind contacting me on my email? [email protected] (I would be happy to support each other closer on steemit)

ps. did you try Wim Hof breathing method? It helps me a lot to distress myself.

cheers,
Piotr

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