Hey guys I thought today we would talk about stress and in particular chronic stress
the difference between stress and chronic stress is going through
a few weeks that are especially tough and feeling very stressed in that time
and then being able to go back to your normal routine, that is just regular
stress and while it's not the best it's not a chronic issue. Chronic stress
is when you are constantly week after week after week for a very long period
of time dealing with constant stress and that can be physical emotional or mental
there's a whole lot of reasons for all of these and sometimes it just isn't
possible to totally take away the stress and in those periods of time it's good
to implement these extra five tips so that you're able to move on and be able
to just live the best you can at that point in time so the first one is diet
absolutely diet this is where I always start you want to be making sure that
you are eating as good of a quality of food as you possibly can
having lots of fiber and antioxidants that's your dark colored fruit and
vegetables like your berries raspberries strawberries your dark leafy greens the
cruciferous vegetables like kale cauliflower or broccoli and then you're
very rich dark Tomatoes all of those kinds of things absolutely amazing for
the body and making sure you having good quality healthy fats as well if you
choose to eat meat seafood that might be the salmon eggs that sort of stuff or
there's avocado nuts and seeds various kinds of oils lots of healthy things
that are just going to help lubricate the body and allow it to deal with more
inflammation that's especially the three so it's going to help with that
and what diets does essentially is it makes physically makes the building
blocks that either are going to be of high quality or they're not going to be
of high quality that are going to help you deal with the inflammation and the
stress hormones that are coursing throughout your body and each building
block each cell is made up of protein and fat and then you get your energy
from carbohydrates so it's a very complicated system that needs fueling
correctly secondly is good quality sleep I think we've all heard this before but
as a chronic insomniac for many years as well as a single mom of a young child I
know this one myself all too well and it can be very important especially for
those who struggle with sleep to actually have a good sleep hygiene
routine that is turning off your phone and screens two hours before bed if
that's not possible then at least turn it there is a mode you can select in
your settings for a certain time frame you can turn off blue light and this
won't cancel out the issue of the bright screens altogether but it does improve
you want to be doing restful things and the two hours leading up to bed so maybe
that's having a bath or a shower or reading a book maybe it's some quiet
family time whatever it is that you like to do that can't see down and definitely
staying away from caffeine ideally no caffeine after 12 p.m. that includes
your green teas and such as well so then after that period of time if you're
still wanting a hot drink sticking with herbal teas and especially chamomile and
lemon balm loveand teas that are very calming and restful
and thirdly one as an anxious person I find very beneficial is writing things
down when you're in that state laying there trying to get fall asleep and you
just keep having all these thoughts pop into your head I can't forget this and I
can't forget this it really helps have a notepad next to
your bed to write things down or a list on your phone and also to have that
throughout the day just writing down anything that is really important and
that you need to get to and sometimes it's helpful to do a brain dump we
putting every single thought down and then you can sort of forget about it if
it's not important or you can put it in a to-do pile if it needs to be done you
know in the next few days or weeks and then you can put there actually
important things down in its own specific list and you can start them
straightaway writing things down very important if you don't like to
physically write things down having a Google Calendar or some kind of app is
also very beneficial just as long as it's physically somewhere that you can
see and that you're actually going to look at and use day to day number four
is exercise making sure that we are working our body and we're getting our
sweat on as well ideally you want to be doing twenty to thirty minutes between
three to four times a week I like to do walks around the block or I'll take my
daughter to the playground and I'll just run around with her climbing all over
the playground you can do yoga or swimming jump rope jogging running a
team sport anything that that you enjoy and you're actually going to be able to
do the best kind of exercise that you can plan to do is exercise you're
actually going to do so myself I am NOT a fan of swimming so I'm not going to
put swimming on my exercise to do list so that's very good and it
helps your body recognize between daytime and nighttime because in the
daytime we work our bodies and everything's moving around
we're also flowing our lymphatic system which helps us get rid of excess toxins
and fluids within our body and then at night time we can rest and recuperate
ready for the next day plus feel-good hormones who doesn't want those
seriously a number five is active rest there is a huge difference between rest
and actually having active rest active rest is when you sit down or lie down or
gently casually walk around whatever it is you choose to do and choose to be in
that moment doing what it is that you feel like doing that is restful to you
so you don't want to be scrolling on your phone mindlessly you don't want to
be just sitting watching TV you want to be doing something fulfilling that is
restful so you might want to go through a very light walk through maybe you've
got a forest path near you or a rainforest walk if you're an exercise
kind of person or you could be reading a book you've always wanted to get to you
could be having a very relaxing bath with you know facial and all those
things you could do painting you could do so many various different things and
it's not about sitting still doing absolutely nothing it's taking being
mindful about what you're doing and really rejuvenating yourself in that
experience so their top five tips that I would say help reduce chronic stress and
I thought I would add in two oils that I love for stress the first is
frankincense the king of oils I love this oil for basically everything I put
this into my self-care routine almost every single day I might do a face mask
or Hair Mask I will defuse it if I'm going
to do any kind of meditation it's very calming to the central nervous system so
it's amazing before bed after any kind of anxious of particularly stressful
episode it's also good to preemptively use it if you know you've got to do a
speech in front of a lot of people or if you've got to go meet new people
anything that is going to end pup the stress response within your body using
frankincense before and after it's very beneficial and it's going to help you
not release as much of the stress hormones that cause havoc throughout the
body and my second favorite is the balanced
blend this is grounding blend and I like to think of this oil as a big tree when
we're applying this in the 19-yard bodies in balance blend we are setting
our roots deep into the ground we're grounded become we're just relaxed
we're conscious of where we are like a tree with their slow moving they are
stuck there and happy they're restful there they thrive and then our trees in
front our branches and our leaves are free to grow up as high as they can and
we can spread our wings from there so I absolutely love balanced blend and like
frankincense it's good preemptively and after any kind of anxious episode of
stressful situation it's good to start my day off with balance as well that way
I know I'm going to get through the day alright and I will just apply throughout
the day as well it's not a sleeping oil but it is a good oil to apply before bed
if you have a lot of thoughts constantly running through your head and you find
it difficult to take time to just sit and relax and calm also I absolutely
love this Pleasant smells amazing this is a great perfect
while but I hope you have enjoyed those tips if you've got any more leave them
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