How do you personally reduce stress in a healthy manner?
Posted on March 6, 2010
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Glean Bean asked:
I encounter stress most prevalently within my family. My dad doesn’t get me and mom yells constantly at the top of her lungs probably half the time I am at home.
I encounter stress most prevalently within my family. My dad doesn’t get me and mom yells constantly at the top of her lungs probably half the time I am at home.
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Exercise is a proven stress reliever. Go for a walk to calm down.
Well when you live at home and are at the mercy of your parents it’s hard. Don’t worry most parents don’t get thier teens. They love you but they’re not perfect either. Learning to deal with stress is a good tool to learn now and carry through life. I start my day off with quiet time before everyone else in the house is up. I try to foucs on my priorities that day and pray that others issues don’t become mine (this is up to you). I also walk outside in nature, do yoga and eat healthy. When your body is healthy you can cope with stress much better. I just wrote a blog on this so if you want more details about how I do it check out:
Stay around nature and also, reaaly good people who don’t drink, smoke, or do drugs as much as you can, even to do homework. Get a wireless laptop to go on line in a park, or backyard of a good friend where it is quiet.
Learn meditation techniques.
Lose weight and get to a healthy weight, and eat organic.
Take care of teeth.
Get family into family therapy. Tell school psycholiogiost what is going on…it is necessary and how CAN it be arranged. Mom, if a yeller, has emotional problems which need addressing.
if nothing changes and they get punitive and punish in you, try to live with a relative or a good friend, and arrange it wil the courts. If you are over 16 your family cannot prevent it. However, you will have to work part time to earn some money,. Another family can petition for child support from your parents in court, which includes medical; payments, prescreation drugs, etc.
Hi! There are several ways you can reduce stress, and it may take a few tries to find what is best for you. From what you’ve said, it sounds like the stress is coming from difficult interactions with your parents, so I’ll offer a tip for helping those interactions be less stressful, hopefully:
When you feel yourself getting into a conflict with one of them, work really hard not to let them “get to you.” One way to do this is to work on remaining detached, neutral, and above the emotion of the conflict. Visualize yourself floating above the scene, but explicitly removed from the heat of it. Observe, listen, and let the other person know they’ve been heard, but do not allow yourself to come down into the scene. If you feel yourself coming down, visualize floating back up. This can help you keep the upper hand and not lose your cool, which is stressful.
Obviously, this may not always work, so when you are feeling stressed or mad, recognize that your body is having a physiological reaction to the stress (tight stomach, clenching fists or teeth, roiling stomach, tense muscles). When you can recognize those signs, remove yourself from the stressful situation (take a time out), and do something to releive your stress. As some have suggested, exercising can be greate even if it’s just walking around the block. You might also try meditating, having a creative outlet (music, art, writing).
The trick to dealing with stress is knowing your body so when you feel stressed you can do something about it, and then making the time to do that to take care of yourself. Hang in there!