Answer the following questions to yourself out loud<\/em>. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWays that I know help me reduce my physical stress are\u2026.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWhat I know helps me reduce my psychological and \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 emotional stress is\u2026\u2026”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\u201cWhat stops me from doing those things which I know make \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0me feel \u00a0better is\u2026.<\/p>\n
3. Since we\u2019re talking about developing new life long habits, the \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 best way to succeed is by making small regular increments of \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0change over time, until you achieve the intended results.<\/p>\n
Therefore: Identify one small step you can take toward \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 achieving your intended goal, slowly, over time.<\/p>\n
Success breed success. Therefore, after succeeding with your \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0first limited goal, such as taking a 3 minute walk every day, you \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0will easily be able to gradually increase the time that you walk \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 over time.<\/p>\n
4. Practice a breathing method of your choice so that it becomes \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0a new habit which you can learn to utilize to lower your arousal \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0level after you have become anxious.<\/p>\n
5. Learn to meditate, to focus your attention and break your \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0identification with random thought.<\/p>\n
Please contact me at 310.299.2804\u00a0and I\u2019ll gladly send you an MP3 of \u201cBelly Breathing, Mindfulness and Mindlessness Practice\u201d.<\/p>\n
Please send your questions and comments to info@tamingyouranger.com and listen to my podcast at\u00a0 www.shrinkdifferentradio.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is commonly accepted that Stress negatively influences Health, well-being and level of anxiety. What is stress? The Miriam Webster Dictionary\u2019s definition off stress includes, stress is\u00a0\u201ca physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation.\u201d\u00a0 and \u201ca state resulting from a stress; especially:\u00a0 one of bodily or mental tension … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamingyouranger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamingyouranger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamingyouranger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamingyouranger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamingyouranger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamingyouranger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/tamingyouranger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamingyouranger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamingyouranger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamingyouranger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}