To be happy, without stress.

To be happy, without stress.
Everyone experiences stress, and stress is a normal physiological phenomenon. However, if stress reaches a certain level and people are unable to alleviate it, it can lead to a range of physical and mental health problems. There are three sources of stress: external factors, physiological conditions, and internal factors.

When stress occurs, people can experience physical and psychological reactions. Physical reactions include headaches, shoulder pain, insomnia, daydreaming, sweating, and a rapid heartbeat. Psychological reactions include irritability and anorexia. If a person is in a state of high pressure and it is not relieved in time, this can cause a range of symptoms, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, asthma, dysmenorrhea, hypertension, and so on.

Share the 8 most commonly used methods for stress reduction.

1. Deep breathing
Breathing is not only essential for survival; the way you breathe can also refresh your mind and calm chaotic thoughts. So, if your heart is racing due to stress, take a few deep breaths. Breathe with your whole body and try to direct the breath you inhale into your abdomen. When breathing deeply, inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth.

2. Practice regulations
Exercise is the best "temporary remedy" for reducing stress. It can eliminate some of the chemicals that cause tension. Although it tires the muscles, it can relax the nerves. Choose a small amount of aerobic exercise such as jogging, jumping rope, table tennis, badminton, etc. Aerobic exercise helps increase blood flow, improve physical fitness, promote health, and also enhances the brain's ability to analyze, assess, and react.

3. Music relaxation method
Music psychotherapy has long pointed out that music and sounds can influence our emotions. Choose light and gentle music—it can lead you to spiritual relaxation and bring psychological comfort—to achieve a calming effect. Immerse yourself in pleasant and comforting warm feelings, adjust your emotional and psychological pressures, relax your mind, and enjoy the wonderful feeling of being surrounded by music.

4. Essence and water therapy
Adding lavender, rose, scented tree, geranium and other aromatic essential oils, which have a calming effect on body and mind, to bathwater can help reduce stress.
Water temperature, water pressure, buoyancy, and air bubbles interact to massage muscles, dilate blood vessels, improve circulation, and relieve fatigue. This is a more physical decompression method that you can try if you are able to.

5. Write down the decompression method
"Write down your worries." Use a piece of paper and a pen to write down your stressful experience, all your physical and emotional worries, so that you can clearly understand your current negative self-esteem. While writing, you can sort out agitated thoughts, dissolve anxious emotions, and you will feel your mood gradually stabilize.

6. Communication and approval method
Open your heart and talk more with your relatives and friends. If necessary, you can also talk to your boss and teachers. By expressing the pressure you're feeling at work and in your studies, you will definitely receive support, feedback, and encouragement from them. They might even offer you a helpful suggestion to naturally alleviate the pressure.

7. Forced Decompression Act
Carry a tennis ball, a small rubber ball, or something similar with you. When you're feeling overworked and need to release the pressure, discreetly squeeze it to relieve the pressure in your heart. Squeeze plastic bladders is the most common method. At home, you can also try hitting a pillow a few times to help release the pressure.

8. Joyful Meditation
"Happy Meditation" can be used to relieve tension and anxiety. If you are feeling nervous, please close your eyes and visualize happy past experiences, or imagine a comfortable environment such as the sea or a forest, or imagine yourself surrounded by your favorite color, which has a particularly effective decompressive effect. This helps achieve the goal of physical and mental relaxation.