Next Time You're Stressed

Next time you're stressed

Drawing To Relieve Stress

 

Getting to rediscover your artistic side with anything from doodling to serious sketching could be a perfect stress reliever for myriads of reasons. First, it is a good form of distraction. Second, it helps you express and process emotions. Lastly, it can leave you with something wonderful to enjoy when you're done with it.

Q&A: Don’t a lot of the people who have had difficult childhood remain resilient and able to cope with stress?

Q: Don’t a lot of the people who have had difficult childhood remain resilient and able to cope with stress?

A: If you have the family, the caregiver and child relationship, and if it’s consistent over time and doesn’t have so many up-down swings toward the kid and there is stability within the family, even in bad external environments, a child will be able to do well.

Stress And How To Manage It

Stress is a very specific means of survival. However, too much of something is bad news. When stress goes out of hand, it stirs up major health problems that you could have prevented if your knew how to manage stress to begin with.

Random Facts about Stress

• Laughing lowers stress hormones and boosts the immune system by releasing health-enhancing hormones.
• The stress hormone cortisol does not only cause abdominal fat to accumulate, but it also blows up individual fat cells, causing what scientists call “diseased” fat.
• Stress is associated with the six leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, liver cirrhosis, as well as suicide.

How Crash Dieting May Affect Your Mood

Crash diets don't work and may mess up your brain, thus affecting your mood. A certain animal research has shown that cutting down on sweets can provoke the same response that addicts experience when they withdraw from drugs: the brain releases stress-inducing chemicals, making it particularly hard to stick to it.  That being said, gradually alter your dietary patterns to cut down  the chances of withdrawal.

Stop Stress Eating

Stress is an inevitable part of life. There are myriads of ways to de-stress. Some people go to spas or watch a movie, things like that. Others go for food, or what is also known as stress eating. Are you one of them? Watch this video and learn how to kick such habit to the curb.