10 stress-busting tips

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- Take two 15-minute breaks during the day to clear your head.

- Concentrate on making a change in your life.

- Learn to say No.

- Ask co-workers to lend a helping hand when you need it.

- Learn relaxation techniques breathing exercises and

meditation.

- Listen to music you enjoy on a headset or radio.

- Dont be a workaholic. Find a healthy balance between work and

play.

- Get your work place organised.

- Make huge tasks manageable by breaking them down.

- Dont bring work home. Enjoy family and friends and dont mix

work with your home life.

Mr. Green

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Making small changes that you are in control of is a good way to practice handling change. There is always a risk involved with change. Risking a little gives you experience and takes the sting out of it; for example, ordering something different at a favorite restaurant or simply trying a new restaurant or choosing a new color shirt (something you wouldn't ordinarily wear). You'll find that the more often you make a small change, the less uncomfortable it is to stretch when stretching is required.

In time you may even discover you look forward to changes because they bring freshness into your life that is hard to come by any other way. Changes challenge you and ultimately make you a stronger person. And that's no small change.

Mr. Green

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Despite the messages many of us get when growing up about being accommodating and going out of our way for others. It is important to realize that there is healthy selfish behavior. You have a right to say no and feel good about it. As you attend to your own feelings and needs you will have a lot more willingness to say yes at other times.

Mr. Green

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Make a concerted effort to complete your job assignments within their established deadlines. If you need extra time or cannot meet a deadline, inform your supervisor and co-workers in advance. You may need to seek help from your supervisor if you experience difficulties completing your job tasks.

Mr. Green

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Breathe deeply
If you're a beginner, consider starting with this technique. Breathing is a natural function that you won't have to consciously learn. You simply pay attention to your breathing how it feels when air enters or leaves your nostrils. Don't follow it down to your lungs. When you feel your attention wander, gently return your focus to your breathing.

Scan your body
When using this technique, you'll focus your attention on sensations, such as pain, tension, warmth or relaxation in different parts of your body. Combine body scanning with breathing exercises and imagine breathing heat or relaxation into and out of different parts of your body.

Exercise your imagination
A related practice is guided imagery, in which someone's voice, whether taped or live, directs you through a visualization exercise. Once you reach a state of deep relaxation, most likely through meditation, you create a visual image of whatever the person directing the exercise suggests. Perhaps it's a peaceful place, such as a garden, where you feel calm and safe.

Mr. Green

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"We found that music reduces pain by relaxing the body and mind, and also by distracting the mind from the pain," said Marion Good, a professor at Case Western Reserve University.

In an NIH-backed study run by Good, surgery patients who listened to music during recovery reported reductions in post-operative pain of up to 30 percent.

Mr. Green

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Your life and work are an integral whole. You are more than just someone who works. You have many roles in your life: you're a friend, family member, community member, significant other, parent and more. You have mental, emotional, spiritual and physical needs. How well are you balancing your roles and your needs?

Take time to honor your needs, create calmness in your day and renew your spirit. You will find that focusing on cultivating more balance in your life can help your work life improve. You will be more relaxed, better able to focus and better able to produce high quality work. Coming from a strong personal foundation will increase your professional abilities and improve your view of your work.

Begin by considering your personal and professional roles and how much time you spend each week on each role. Examples of personal roles are: mother, father, sister, brother, best friend, confidant, daughter, son, mentor. Examples of professional roles are: employee, manager, mentor, team member, leader, specific job title. List each role in your life and for one week, carry around a small notepad and make note of how much time you spend on each role.

Next, review your needs in each area: mental , physical, emotional and spiritual.

Examples of mental needs: intellectual stimulation, diversity of thought, learning.

Examples of physical needs: food, shelter, water, Exercise.

Examples of emotional needs: love, belonging, security.

Examples of spiritual needs: meditation, religious/spiritual practice on a regular basis, rituals.

Consider how much time you spend in each area and note which areas you'd like to spend more time on.

Next, look at how you can make room in your life to take the time to focus on the needs that have been neglected and the roles you want to spend more time on. What extraneous tasks can be eliminated from your life or delegated to someone else? Schedule time for yourself and treat it like any other appointment.

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InnoHippo SG

Stopping and organizing your work area will make you feel like you are on top of things more. You will be more productive and efficient at what you do. Having your work area in no type of order can keep you from becoming as successful as you want to be. Having no organization in where you work can effect how you work and keep you stressed out. This stress can come from not finding things that you need to function with on a daily base. Get all files, folders and anything else off your floor. Clean it up so it will be efficient and also look nice. Its nothing like working in a functional, effective clean area. This will allow you to be productive and happy.

Mr. Green

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Very often, when we consider taking on a new project, we feel overwhelmed or intimidated by the magnitude of it. We look at what seems like a monolith and feel inadequate to the task. Just the thought of facing it can stop us in our tracks. And even if we choose to move forward, we may find ourselves procrastinating, not knowing what to do first.

One of the greatest deterrents to a new dream or goal is confronting the enormity of it and feeling it has to be accomplished in one grand leap; this is rarely true. Or we see it as a huge, amorphous mass, like an overstuffed sandwich, and we don't know where to take the first bite. We can make our new projects more manageable by breaking them down into small, doable steps.

Mr. Green

InnoHippo SG

Lastly ..... dont bring work home. Enjoy family and friends and dont mix

work with your home life.

Mr. Green