****10 Cognitive stress Relief strategies****

Depression is very real, and what causes depression is stress, so how do we identify stress right from that mild headache to suicide everything revolves around being stressful.

So how does a human react to stress in general, when he/she is stressed- handle it with "FFF"...no I don't mean the cuss word rather I meant 

FIGHT//FLIGHT//FREEZE - 

what's ur style to deal with it?(I will write about it on demand- let me know if you want to discover your stress combat style).

Blessed are the ones who knows how to combat it.

Mostly the stress that we get today are more cognitive and less physical in nature so here are the ways to deal with it

1. Meditation -  finds its traits from old Hindu or Buddhist beliefs. Scientifically the Prefrontal cortex of the brain becomes highly active and helps in stress reduction.

One myth about meditation is that u have to stop thinking everything while meditating. Instead, initially  while meditating your  brain will stay highly functional. So please don't stop thinking or stop meditating.  You are  unable to concentrate cause you are just on right track.

2. Yoga/Thai chai - it's meditating using your body. Extensively helpful for healthy mind and body.

3. Take a break - right from power nap to sabbatical whatever helps you to escape. It comes under Flight/flee - basically silences the amygdala of the brain.

4. Peter Pan Principle(PPP) - if u have read about Peter Pan, you will know that happy feelings made him light and fly. So travel and sync in your happy moments to make yourself burden free and flee.

5. Hypnotherapy - for this you have to visit someone who is an expert in the field.

6. Guided imagenary - this is self hypnosis.  Here you slowly self talk to yourself to your favourite destination and on all positive note do and guide yourself to do all that you want to do that makes you happy. This is my personal fav as it gives the power to boost your self esteem and believe that you can do it  and remember when you want something so strong from the heart even the universe conspires to help u. ( Well, filmy, but true)

7. News Shut down - I am going to try this, as it is a known fact that presently no news channel delivers a balanced perspective, and all that we see, only pumps more in more negativity or competition.

So no news technique is my new favorite as it helps you to find out the n number of people who are doing zillion of amazing jobs and inspires me to do something good and makes me more positive.

8. Change Perspective - another favorite one - Stress is automatically reduced when we try to see it from a different perspective and try to find the good in the situation.

i. Take problems as opportunity

ii. Think how would you talk about in the next 10years(trust me you will laugh at it).

iii. how would you handle it if you were a famous personality.

9. Solomon's ring - this makes life easier trust me, I hope you know about the story(if not google it, it's worth it)... His ring said 4 imp. Words

"This too shall pass"..... In times of happiness and distress tell yourself these 4 words as it will give u strength courage and wisdom to handle everything. I tell myself "what can't kill me will make me stronger"//"when the going gets tough the tough gets going"- miss Ishita I hope you remember you told me this when I was in class 9.

10. Brain games - simple method of tiring your amygdala.  Rationalizing is not a part of amygdal. Hence,when a person is stressed,  he/she can't think straight or logically. So to come out of it, indulge in brain games (Google to discover brain games and then try it if you don't know any) .

Stress is imp. as it releases adrenaline, and keeps cortisol(the stress hormone) in control but too much of it might burn your engine.

If you like the post, please do share. Stress is a major reason for suicides. So let's help and soothe someone.

Do let me know if you would like to know about the other scientific ways of stress management.

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