Relieve Your Stress
There are many times in life when we feel stressed. Maybe we’re busting our butts at work. Maybe we’re dealing with challenges in our personal life. Or maybe we have a health issue that is placing extra stress on our bodies. Regardless of the reasons, stress has become endemic in our society. As a result, we now need to put more effort into understanding how to relieve our stress. This course will help you begin to understand your current level of stress and discover how you can relieve stress once and for all.
Relieve Your Stress: A Science-Based Course
Psychologists have been studying stress for many years. They’ve discovered many insights about what stress is in the body, what causes it, and what reduces it. That means we now know many strategies that can be used to relieve stress. It’s just a matter of practicing them regularly in our day-to-day lives. So in this course, we’ll break these strategies down for you into 4 totally-doable modules.
The 4 steps to relieving stress:
- Uncover Your Stress Profile
- Decrease Your Stress
- Support Your Detox Pathways
- Generate Joy
In this course, you’ll take these 4 steps to understand your stress level, reduce your stress level, and prevent stress from coming back. You’ll do this through lessons, exercises, and self-reflection that can help you learn more about how stress affects you and your health.
By the end of this course, you’ll have a better understanding of what stress-reducing techniques work best for you. This insight will enable you to move forward to create a lower-stress, more enjoyable life.
Before we get started, here are some guidelines to stay on track:
1.) If you need to skip something in this course, don’t stress about it.
The more often you do the things in the course, the faster you are likely to see results. That being said, I completely understand that you are a busy person, and it might not be possible to do everything as many times as you might want to. Please don’t let this stop you from doing them whenever you do have time. And don’t stress about it if you don’t get to everything you hoped to do. It’s ok. Just keep moving forward, and you can still benefit from this course.
2.) Be patient with yourself
This course is intended to put you on the right path to undo the effects of past stress, relieve current stress, and prevent future stress. How long it will take to feel significant impacts will depend on many factors—for example, how long you’ve been stressed, how severe the stress is, and how much stress you continue to experience.
So if you can’t do everything right away, just know that it’s okay. Take all the time you need. Please be patient with yourself. We all require different amounts of time to achieve our desired results.
3.) Choose the path of least-stress
It’s so important to engage in stress-reducing activities and avoid stress-increasing activities while doing this course. Otherwise, you’ll just be reducing stress in some ways and adding stress in other ways, and you may not benefit as much as you wanted to. Here are some key guidelines:
a.) Do no more than 30 minutes of moderate/strenuous exercise per day (max of 6 days per week). Exercise is good for stress detox, but too much exercise actually causes stress. So when exercising, walks in nature and gentle yoga are best. Doing more than 30 minutes of anything that requires the heart to pump a lot or muscles to rebuild is likely to slow down your stress detox. Now is the time to let your body recover and not push it as hard as you might usually.
b.) Sleep as much as you can. If you’re already getting 12 hours of sleep, you probably don’t need more. But if you’ve been stressed for a while, extra sleep can really help you de-stress a lot faster. So sleep as much as you need and as often as you want.
c.) Eat as many calories, carbs, fat, and food as you need. Diets can be great for losing weight and improving health, but they increase stress because you have less fuel, often your nutritional needs are not being met, and many people also end up worrying or obsessing about food. So the goal here is to eat as much food as you need. Try not to overeat or eat tons of junk food (which can add stress), but if you feel hungry, eat food and try not to think about it too much.
d.) Get outside and in the sun for at least 15 minutes every day. The sun, trees, fresh air, and even soil affect the body in profound and positive ways that can reduce stress. So do your best to get outside every day. For example, you could park farther from work and walk in, eat lunch outside, or take short walks whenever you have time.
*Note: Some of these suggestions may feel counterintuitive because they go against other advice you hear from the wellness industry. But remember, our goal here is to reduce stress and not to lose weight or get more fit (activities that can actually increase stress).
4.) Above all else, listen to your body
To be successful with this course, it’s really important that you listen to your body. Try each activity or strategy at least once or for a short time. But if you try something and it doesn’t feel right for you, then please listen to that wisdom. Not everyone benefits from the same strategies. And your body knows what’s right for you more than I do. Okay, those are the guidelines. Let’s get started.