Antistress: breathing exercise and stress counseling cons

Stress is a mental and physical condition. It is therefore natural to deal with exercises that involve the body and mind. But what exercises to practice to relax when we have little time?

1. Control his breathing

One of the most effective means to control nervousness and tension resulting from stress is to control her breathing. Indeed, it can better manage stress-related events and thus reduce it.

Exercise: 

- Sit on a chair, back straight and slightly off the record. Hands, relaxed, rest on your thighs. Hold your head up and direct our gaze to the ground. You can close your eyes. Adopt the posture that seems the most correct and right as possible before starting. Breathe through your belly in a calm and steady;

- focus your attention on your breath trying to pay attention to his variations of pace and power.Do not force your breathing;

- Practice for about 3 minutes.

It is possible that your attention does not remain focused on breathing. It does not matter. As soon as you remember, bring it on and continue this last year.

2. Plan

In recent years, in the Paris metro, the RATP has erected signs indicating the time left to wait for the subway. The relationship with stress? Well, it helps users to reduce the stress of waiting.
Indeed, they can plan their time, helps to know how to respond to stress and thus reduce the incidence of the latter.

Tip:

- establish priorities : first do the most important things before moving on to other tasks;

- set yourself deadlines . Attention to setting goals possible and achievable if you will increase your stress!

- follow your schedule , but does not refer to it rigidly so that the gap could arise between what you expected and the unexpected do not stress more.

3. Decentre

During a period of stress, we are often obsessed with what concerns us and to the detriment of the rest of the elements that surround us. Decentre allows then to integrate all aspects of a situation and thus to find solutions where you do not see before. This gives a more global view.

Tip:

- When you just learn a new or have experienced a stressful event , do not respond right away.Treat yourself to a 3 minute break during which you can do a breathing exercise (above);

- Then wear your attention on the objects around you . Breathe slowly and focus your attention for 1 or 2 minutes on the details of each object, as if you see them first;

- Then slowly return to what has been a source of stress and try to visualize what you can do to respond constructively considering, still , many possibilities.