How to Reduce Stress

Last week, we learned about how to reduce stress. I’d like to share what I learned with you.

1. Exercise. Aerobic exercises lower your resting heart rate and blood pressure, so when you get stressed, your body doesn’t react as strongly and recovers quicker.
2. Writing. It is unclear whether writing about our emotions provide a safe space for our emotions or help us focus or thoughts and find solutions. However, research has discovered expressive writing helps us cope with our emotions.
3. Breathing Exercise. Breathing exercises helps us relieve body tension, thus reducing stress.
4. Talking it Out. Having a go to person/ people to vent can help reduce stress, though it is unclear why.
5. Altruism. Helping others because it makes us happy reduces stress. It makes us take our minds problems and realize other people have it worse.
6. Religion. Religion helps us reduce stress too. Religion provides us with a support group to talk to (see #4) and provides us with opportunities to help people (see #5).