5 tips to manage your stress
19 October 2011
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According to Wikipedia, stress (emotional pressure in English, from the Old French destresse), or general adaptation syndrome, is the set of responses of an organism subjected to pressures or constraints from its environment. In everyday language, we speak of positive stress (eustress in English) or negative stress (distress).
In the workplace, this term is an integral part of life. It even seems that it is increasingly one of the main drivers. Certainly, positive, it increases performance tenfold. However, in too high a dose, it becomes harmful to the body and mind. It is easily identified in that it causes a significant decrease in production capacity and a loss of motivation, both of which are, obviously, closely linked.
Here are a few tips to apply daily:
1. Listen to the signals sent by your body
Often, the physical reminds us relentlessly what the mind is painfully trying to hide. Slight drops in all kinds of regimes, difficulty or even loss of concentration, blinking eyelids, rapid annoyance, nervousness, indifference, recurrent or chronic fatigue, slight incomprehensible melancholy, etc... From the lightest to the heaviest signals, your body is calling for help. Know how to listen to it and respect it.
Identify your energy moments and juggle with them. If, for example, you are a morning person, it is at this precise moment that you should schedule your appointments and complete important files. Keep the less arduous, more pleasant tasks that require less involvement for the end of the day.
Knowing your biological rhythm means using it and protecting it at the same time.
2. Take breaks in the middle of your rushes
As banal as it is to say, it is often difficult to put into practice: breaks. They are necessary every two hours. Know how to evacuate your stress, for a few minutes, by drinking tea or joking with a colleague who is taking theirs. Completely empty your mind. Stretch, close your eyes for a few seconds, tired from the aggressive brightness of your computer... These minutes must be entirely yours. Brief but intense. Remember that if you use them to make your personal phone calls, you remain in the excitement. The benefit will be less.
3. Make priority lists
There's no need to think you're a superhero. Despite your rare and fierce will, despite the pressure of the accumulating files, you cannot work 24 hours a day! Nor can you catch up at night what you didn't have time to finish during the day. Remember to make well-organized lists that take into account your imperatives as well as your biological rhythm and respect them.
Organization is second nature. A saving nature.
4. Limit stimulants and quick sugars
Is it useful here to remind you that tobacco, alcohol, as well as coffee and tea in large quantities exhaust the body? Emptying your vitamin C reserves, creating poor cellular oxygenation, and disrupting your body's elimination functions only increase your stress significantly.
Similarly, avoid - or even eliminate - sodas and sweets. These quick sugars will only tone you up for a few hours before harming you in many other areas.
Eat fruits, drink water...
5. Work on your breathing
Breathe. The best way to relieve pressure is the simplest: just work on your breathing. This oxygenates the cells and cleanses tensions.
Practicing regular physical activity can also be an excellent solution to releasing your positive energies. Which will eliminate the others.
The ReKrute.com Team
In the workplace, this term is an integral part of life. It even seems that it is increasingly one of the main drivers. Certainly, positive, it increases performance tenfold. However, in too high a dose, it becomes harmful to the body and mind. It is easily identified in that it causes a significant decrease in production capacity and a loss of motivation, both of which are, obviously, closely linked.
Here are a few tips to apply daily:
1. Listen to the signals sent by your body
Often, the physical reminds us relentlessly what the mind is painfully trying to hide. Slight drops in all kinds of regimes, difficulty or even loss of concentration, blinking eyelids, rapid annoyance, nervousness, indifference, recurrent or chronic fatigue, slight incomprehensible melancholy, etc... From the lightest to the heaviest signals, your body is calling for help. Know how to listen to it and respect it.
Identify your energy moments and juggle with them. If, for example, you are a morning person, it is at this precise moment that you should schedule your appointments and complete important files. Keep the less arduous, more pleasant tasks that require less involvement for the end of the day.
Knowing your biological rhythm means using it and protecting it at the same time.
2. Take breaks in the middle of your rushes
As banal as it is to say, it is often difficult to put into practice: breaks. They are necessary every two hours. Know how to evacuate your stress, for a few minutes, by drinking tea or joking with a colleague who is taking theirs. Completely empty your mind. Stretch, close your eyes for a few seconds, tired from the aggressive brightness of your computer... These minutes must be entirely yours. Brief but intense. Remember that if you use them to make your personal phone calls, you remain in the excitement. The benefit will be less.
3. Make priority lists
There's no need to think you're a superhero. Despite your rare and fierce will, despite the pressure of the accumulating files, you cannot work 24 hours a day! Nor can you catch up at night what you didn't have time to finish during the day. Remember to make well-organized lists that take into account your imperatives as well as your biological rhythm and respect them.
Organization is second nature. A saving nature.
4. Limit stimulants and quick sugars
Is it useful here to remind you that tobacco, alcohol, as well as coffee and tea in large quantities exhaust the body? Emptying your vitamin C reserves, creating poor cellular oxygenation, and disrupting your body's elimination functions only increase your stress significantly.
Similarly, avoid - or even eliminate - sodas and sweets. These quick sugars will only tone you up for a few hours before harming you in many other areas.
Eat fruits, drink water...
5. Work on your breathing
Breathe. The best way to relieve pressure is the simplest: just work on your breathing. This oxygenates the cells and cleanses tensions.
Practicing regular physical activity can also be an excellent solution to releasing your positive energies. Which will eliminate the others.
The ReKrute.com Team
