How to Cope with Stress

Positive self-talk

When you take a positive view of the potential stressful situation, you will be able to cope better than another person who sees stress negatively. If you take failure as a feedback for learning in life rather than setback, you will be able to cope better because of positive reframing. It is a way of changing the way you look at thing, it will alter your experience. It will help to lessen the stressors you see in life. According to Brain Tracy, “Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.”  When we use positive self-talk and reframing technique, it will help us to change other thinking and emotion.  It will help us to cope better with stress.

Relaxation

It aids you to cope with stress better.  You need to find a place to be free from distraction, switch off computer, hand phone and telephone. You can select your favourite relaxing music.  You can sit down in and comfortable place for relaxation.  When you are ready, you can close your eyes. You can tighten your muscle first.  Then, you let go of the tension. You can start from head to toe.  You can experience the difference between tense and relax state.

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