Stress Relief
Helpful Stress Reduction Techniques
Keep a record of stressful situations and rate the actual level of stress from O (most relaxed) to 10 (most stressed).
Start to monitor your stress on the "Practice Journal" worksheet before, during and after stressful events or situations. As you begin to observe your levels of stress, you will notice that these levels are not constant.
You will find that stress levels increase when you are concentrating on your most alarming thoughts and bodily reactions, but stress levels fall when your attention turns away from these areas.
This will show you that one way to reduce the level of stress in your life is to actively turn away from negative "stress building" thoughts and to concentrate on positive stress busting ways of thinking.
Combating negative thoughts and replacing them with positive ones takes practice, but the results are worth it. Review the facts. What is your evidence? Is there another way to view the situation? If not, what is the worst thing that could happen?
You may have been concentrating on the worst possible, but by no means the most likely, outcome.
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