Stress in today’s life is common, but it’s not good for our health. In the modern day, life has become hectic, work hours are longer, and it’s easy to get stressed, thus affecting personal as well as professional lives. Here’s how to beat stress and keep your calm.
Start your day with some exercise – yoga, swimming, walking, cycling, or anything else. It will also give you time to collect your thoughts for the day ahead.
Music, Meditation, Pranayam, Chanting – Choose whatever works for you, and keep at it every day.
For many, stress is job-related. Learn to organize well (use alarms and reminders, train your staff/maid, delegate work) to keep stress levels in control. Creating and sticking to a planned schedule always helps as it minimizes shocks and surprises.
Preparing for the next day the night before will ensure lower stress levels in the mornings. So get things ready the night before, for the day ahead. Keep things ready for children’s school. Get your exercise and work clothes ready before you go to bed. Put things away (clutter, cleaning dishes) at the end of the day.
Also, enjoy your job, or better still, find a job that you love and you’re unlikely to be stressed. Talented, hard-working people are always much in demand
Educate yourself, learn skills, network – figure out ways to be economically independent, so that others do not get a chance to tell you that you are not good enough (tell them to take a hike if they say so).
It’s okay to let go at times. Remember, life is not an exam where you have to do well in all the subjects, all the time. Nobody remembers their job designation on their dying day.
Avoid comparison with others all the time. There will always be someone who will seem to be in a better position compared to yours. Do your best, but don’t expect to emerge on top every time. This can only give you one thing for certain – stress.
At times, mind tricks help. Remind yourself that this too shall pass in order to stay cool. Remember, nothing is permanent.
This optical illusion has no connection with stress levels
This image of an optical illusion is now doing the rounds of social media, it says it reveals your stress levels. But is it true?
A little fact-finding reveals that it has got nothing to do with your stress levels, and reveals nothing about your stress levels.
It says, “This still image was created by Yamamoto, a Japanese neurology professor” and it says “If it’s not moving, or just moving a little, you are healthy and have slept well. If it’s moving slowly, you are a bit stressed or tired. If it’s moving continuously, you are over-stressed and might have mental problems.” There are a few variations in the wordings, but the idea is the same.
When I saw the image it was moving for me, and I thought. Well, I’m not stressed but why it is moving so much.
May be its something to do with the eyesight.
So a bit of googling and then I stumbled upon a few articles which said that it was fake.
It seems the image was actually created by Yurii Perepadia, a 50-year-old designer from Oleksandriya in Ukraine in 2016. He says the image has got nothing to do with your stress levels.
“I first saw this fake post on Facebook and then they began to appear everywhere. It annoyed me. After all, it was copyright infringement. So I wrote letters demanding the removal of the posts,” Yurii told BBC.
Yurii says he drew the optical illusion using Adobe Illustrator and used the effect of Akiyoshi Kitaoka, which gives the illusion to a viewer that the details of the image are moving. Akiyoshi Kitaoka is the man behind the illusion with 12 dots on a grid.
We are happy that Yurii came forward to clarify this and took the efforts to stop the further circulating of this fake news.
In any case, if you feel that you’re stressed, the best way to deal with it is to take the help of a qualified professional, and not depend on the effects of an optical illusion.
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