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Here are 20 ways to overcome the stress according to Dr. Andrew Slaby, medical director of the Soul Fair Oaks Hospital in Summit, New Jersey USA.
1. Recognize symptoms of stress. Do you drink lots of booze, easily annoyed, lack of appetite or likes to be alone? If true, act immediately.
2. Avoid caffeine, because caffeine will speed up palpitation of the heart and raise your blood pressure. Take multi-vitamins to fight stress.
3. Reduce salt, too much salt will cause the accumulation of body-fluid retention, which can make people irritable and cause high blood pressure.
4. Eat regularly, if you do not eat lunch or dinner, blood sugar levels will decrease and you will be irritable or restless.
5. Delegate authority. Ask for help from others if the work piling up.
6. Do not hold your anger. Discuss the problems faced by friends.
7. Do not procrastinate. It will cause stress.
8. Learning to relax. Sit quietly, close your eyes and relax the muscles from head to toe 2 times a day.
9. Nurture a sense of humor. Laughter is very effective to relieve the tension.
10. Forget the past. Continue to bring up the error, just make us confused and agitated.
11. Be polite. Amenity can often reduce conflict.
12. Face the reality. There are things that can not be changed, so do not waste energy with a temper tantrum.
13. Pairs of small target who realistic as a stone a stepping for the achieve who large.
14. Being full of initiative, not just waiting.
15. Take decisions. We are not so stressful if you have tried and failed, than if it did not do at all. 16. Exercise regularly. Brisk walking is the most effective stress reliever.
17. Imagination. A very stressful situation can be tackled more if we had been anticipated, and imagine what the best course of action to deal with the situation.
18. Relax and unwind. Rest several times a day.
19. Take out your steam. Stress can arise when arrested.
20. Be careful in choosing friends. Choose one that has a positive attitude to life.
