Stress Relief Articles

You must know how stressful it is to get stuck in the traffic at the morning rush hours. The levels of stress rise through the roof when you are rushing your way to office, you have hardly five minutes left to get there, and you got stranded in the highway because of a major accident. The stress of being late for work makes your blood boil. Imagine it’s an evening rush hour and you’re getting late to pick your child up from the day care centre, and you brush an accident half way, because of a rowdy and careless driver. So, driving can cause you major stress! You can hardly enjoy being inside the car when you are coping with stress in traffic congestion, construction delays, road rage, and accidents. It can rack your nerve more than anything.

Maintaining your car adds to the stress levels as the cost can get bigger with each day. You have to arrange for the insurance, shooting gas prices, and maintenance costs. If you have an older vehicle, your stress levels can shoot off faster, for you need do a lot of extra care and maintenance.

Driving your children to school or social events can be your duty as a parent. Let alone the amount of traffic jam, you have to entertain your child and may have to deal with fighting or singing to the young children, all while remaining focused on driving safely. This can mean a lot stress for you.

Modern life has fueled tensions and stress in the form of bad roads, potholes, traffic jams, rude drivers, and irritable passengers. You can never know when you get stuck in a construction delay on your way to work, to the store, or to school. There will be times when you wonder if you’ll be able to make it!

•    Well, nothing to lose hope. You can deal with these unavoidable driving related stresses, only if you know how to keep your calm. Try playing some calming CD’s that help you shut out the stresses, but also let you concentrate on your driving. When you are listening to pleasant music, you can distance yourself from the stressful situations outside the car, for the time being. It’s a kind of repose.

•    At times, it is good to do some detours and change the route you take in the morning. You can avoid construction, traffic jams while taking a little longer, and less crazy route.

•    It is a good practice to start five to ten minutes earlier than usual. That way you can avoid the rush, and realize how much a difference those few minutes will create in your daily commute.

Driving should be enjoyable and pleasant, even when you are driving your way through an exasperated traffic and bad roads. Keeping your cool will keep stress at bay. Driving stresses become habitual as we hardly change our approaches towards them, but by making the best out of our necessary commutes and trips in the car, it is possible to alleviate driving-induced stress faster than ever.

When you have stress and anger working together, can you think of any greater disaster! Stress and anger are sufficient to get on your nerves and eat up all your positive energy. While you are out to destroy a person and release all your anger on people around you, you are in essence destroying yourself. Anger is a mighty weapon of destruction and it’s beyond any logic. All your positive faculties are destroyed in an instant- and you become an aggressive and hostile individual worked up by rage and wrath. It ebbs within you along with stress and erupts out like a volcano! Can you control such negative emotional impulses that can even overpower a mighty dam!

Think of human civilization, and you picture the ruthless battles, you hear the sounds of the war drums – human history is replete with blood stains and revenges. It is the angry Kings, the angry generals, the angry statesmen and politicians who waged the bloody wars and contrived a destruction plan for humanity. Think closely and you’ll find out that the scariest murders were committed in a fit of rage and stress! If you have stress overpower you, you lose sense of proportion, and your power of reason. You never know, when you can commit an act which you wouldn’t have otherwise committed in a normal state!

Don’t you think we should all give peace a chance? That way we can make this world peaceful and beautiful. When you are surrounded by people who are compassionate and understanding, coping with stress becomes easy. Imagine a stress-free world where you can manage conflicts and crisis more easily and conveniently. No one would like an individual with an angry face, and frayed tempers.  Can you think of marrying an overstressed angry fellow! Even for the boys, would they ever end up marrying an overstressed angry girl? You know the answer – they wouldn’t.

Consider this wise and intelligent way of looking at temper – temper is valuable and don’t lose it so often. Make a poster out of it, and display it in a prominent place in your office or at your home.

Though the implications of stress and anger can be overbearing, managing these negative impulses are not that impossible either. Only thing you will need is the resolve and guts to get rid of such provocative feelings. You have the confidence – you can achieve it.

Place yourself in a comfortable position and peep into your own self. Do some introspection and analyze your personality traits. Then make a list of to do and not to do things. Don’t forget to include the ‘should have done’ and ‘should not have done’ things – that way initiate your war against anger and stress.