5 Strategies you can Implement to Overcome Emotions and Stress

We have put to together 5 of the most popular strategies to help you overcome stress and emotions during this pandemic we are experiencing.

The stress of uncertainty wreaks havoc with our ability to stay calm and grounded.

With the covid19 impacting our productivity in everything from completing everyday tasks and caring for ourselves and family to managing work projects remotely.

When events in the world around us are unpredictable and begin hitting closer to home.

It’s typical for the associated stress to impact our health and wellbeing, and today it can cause more damage than ever before.

Here are the 5 Strategies to Implement to Overcome Stress and Emotions…

1.. Take Control of Your Mind

Your mind is the most powerful tool you have for the creation of good in your life, but if not used correctly, can also be the most destructive force in your life.

To control your thoughts means to influence the way you live your life.

Your mind, more specifically, your thoughts, affects your perception and therefore, your interpretation of reality.

(And here’s Why Your Perception Is Your Reality)

Nothing causes more emotional distress than the thoughts we think.

We must do a better job than we usually do of identifying the thoughts that don’t serve us.

So, disputing them and demanding that they go away, and substituting more useful thoughts.

Thinking thoughts that do not serve you is the equivalent of serving yourself up emotional distress.

Only you can get a grip on your own mind; if you won’t do that work, you will live in distress.

Reference:

https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/how-to-master-your-mind-part-one-whos-running-your-thoughts.html

2. Be yourself

Start telling yourself what you love about yourself. 

In your own life it’s important to know how spectacular you are. You really have to look in the mirror and be kind.to yourself. 

Because what we see in the mirror is often what we see in the world. Also, our disappointment in others often reflects our disappointment in ourselves. 

Our acceptance of others often reflects our acceptance of ourselves. 

Findability to see potential in others often reflects our ability to see potential in ourselves. 

Patience with others often reflects our patience with ourselves. You get the idea you’ve got to show yourself some love first and foremost.

You must be yourself.

This means asking for what you want, setting boundaries, having your own beliefs and opinions, standing up for your values.

Wear the clothes you want to wear, eating the food you want to eat, saying the things you want to say, and in a hundred other ways being you and not somebody small or false.

Reference:

16 Simple Ways to Love Yourself Again

3. Forget the Past

People say it is very important to keep in mind things you’ve done in the past so that you can have an evidence for what your life turns out to be.

I say history is nothing but history. What you have done in the past has absolutely no role to play in your future.

We have all done things or been through situations that we are not so proud of or happy with, which is part of life.

We are not so completely in control of our being that we can prevent past sore points from returning.

They have a way of pestering us as anxious sweats, nightmares, sudden sadness, and waves of anger or defeat.

But, we can nevertheless try to exorcise the past by not playing along with our human tendency to wallow there.

We must tell ourselves to move on and mean it. If you have a secret attachment to misery, you will feel miserable.

As best you can, imperfectly but with real energy, let go of the past and forget the past.

Reference:

https://www.lifehack.org/363767/5-ways-forget-about-the-past-and-move

4. Love and be loved

I believe love could be one of the most important components to help overcome stress and emotions it’s true what they say that love conquers all.

Love becomes defined by experiences that release chemicals—oxytocin (the cuddle/caring hormone), dopamine (the pleasure chemical), vasopressin (for attraction).

Following puberty, the estrogen and testosterone of lust. 

The delight of feeling accepted and valued is yet to be experienced.

Yet love can be learned, especially once we reach adolescence, gain capacities for forethought and conscious intention, and can learn to love ourselves.

With a maturing brain that permits reflection and expanded life experiences that make room for a broader social circle.

People are able to observe themselves with curiosity, attention, compassion, and kindness.

Part of our nature requires solitude, alone time, and a substantial rugged individualism.

But this isn’t the whole story of our nature.

We feel happier, warmer and better, live longer, and ex

Experience life as more meaningful if we love and let ourselves be loved. We must be individuals, but we must also relate.

To do both, to both be ourselves and relate, requires that we acknowledge the reality of others, include others in our plans.

Do  not only speak but listen, and makes ourselves fit by eliminating our more egregious faults and by growing up.  

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5. Flip the anxiety switch off

You feel panicky for no reason. It comes out of nowhere…

The heart is pounding out of your chest.
Your breath is shallow and quick.
And your body feels like it’s overheating.
Can’t think straight – the world is spinning.
Feeling dizzy and scared.
Feel trapped in your body, out of control… and you feel like you’re going to die.

If you’re experiencing these symptoms, it’s likely that you’re having a panic attack.

Panic is a whole-body experience!

Did you know that it’s nearly impossible to laugh and panic at the same time?

So, if you can make yourself laugh (even if it starts off as a fake laugh), you can ward off an on-coming panic attack.

Start with an exaggerated fake laugh, if you can’t get a real one going, and see where it leads. The louder and sillier you can get, the better.

Rampant anxiety ruins our equilibrium, colours our mood, and makes all the already hard tasks of living that much harder.

There are many anxiety management strategies you might want to try breathing techniques, cognitive techniques, relaxation techniques, and so on.

What will make all the difference is if you can locate that “inner switch” that controls your anxious nature and, deciding that you prefer to live more calmly, flip it to the off position.

With one gesture you announce that you will no longer over-dramatize, that you will no longer catastrophize, that you will no longer live a fearful life or create unnecessary anxiety for yourself.

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Ways to manage and reduce and Overcome Stress and Emotions

Reducing the emotional symptoms of stress starts with reducing the sources of stress in your life.

The American Institute of Stress explains that while there are a variety of stress-reducing techniques, finding ones that work for you is important.

• Physical activities such as running, jogging, and aerobics are a great way to physically relieve stress and tension.
• Relaxing physical activities such as yoga or tai chi can help to work your body while relaxing your mind. Try these yoga poses to relieve stress.
• Mindfulness techniques such as meditation can strengthen your emotional responses to stress.
• Reducing stress in different areas of your life, when possible, can help to lessen your exposure to chronic stressors.
• Mobile apps may calm your mind and offer guided conversations to help you manage stress and anxiety.