Healthy Life Skills

Dhaniel Bly

Healthy Life Skills

14 June 2015

Managing Stress

Part 1:

        The major source of stress in my life is at the moment is school. By dealing with it, I am currently using the relaxation technique. This approach is very helpful because it seem to have an effect on a number of physiological functions, including blood pressure, heart rate, and muscle tension.

        It is a very helpful way to deal stress. Deep breathing always helps me calm myself and my mind and body begin to relax. Progressive relaxation is helpful to me because it also relaxes my body and usually makes my headaches go away. Mindfulness-based meditation helps me pay attention to the present moment and lets my thoughts come and go without judging them.

Part 2:

Two other additional stress reduction strategies and relaxation techniques are “body scan meditation for stress relief” and “visualization meditation for stress relief.” Body scan is similar to progressive muscle relaxation except, instead of tensing and relaxing muscles, you simply focus on the sensations in each part of your body. Visualization, or guided imagery, is a variation on traditional meditation that requires you to employ not only your visual sense, but also your sense of taste, touch, smell, and sound. When used as a relaxation technique, visualization involves imagining a scene in which you feel at peace, free to let go of all tension and anxiety.

Part 3: 

Within five days, I have experienced with the relaxation technique as in mindfulness for stress relief. I used this because it makes me feel very calm. This technique did indeed what work for me because I became stress free and feeling calm again. This is definitely something I will employ in the future or for other types of stressors in your life. From this experience, I have learned how to: Choose a secluded place in your home, office, garden, place of worship, or in the great outdoors where I can relax without distractions or interruptions; Get comfortable, but avoid lying down as this may lead to you falling asleep. Sit up with my spine straight, either in a chair or on the floor. I can also try a cross-legged or lotus position; choose to focus on an object in my surroundings to enhance my concentration, or alternately, I can close your eyes; and not worry about distracting thoughts that go through my mind or about how well I am doing. If thoughts intrude during my relaxation session, I don’t fight them. Instead, I gently turn my attention back to my point of focus.