I’m always pleased to find good stress resources. There are many simple things that we can do to manage stress, and doing so is a significant health benefit. So here’s a website from Mental Health America: Live Your Life Well.
There’s a test to evaluate your stress, and there are ten sensible tools for handling it better (also available for iPhone). They are:
- Connect well with others.
- Stay positive
- Get physically active
- Help others
- Get enough sleep
- Create joy and satisfaction
- Eat well
- Take care of your spirit
- Deal better with hard times (coping skills)
- Get professional help if you need it
All of these are great advice, and I think I have recommended all of them right here at one time or another. I’m planning a short series at the moment on number 7, because I’ve come across a few interesting and little-known facts about how food affects mental functioning. Watch this space. And in the meantime, check out Live Your Life Well.
(These days I probably need to say this: This is a spontaneous recommendation of a website I found. They didn’t approach me and I don’t receive anything for recommending them. I don’t do link exchanges under any circumstances.)
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