Wellness Week: 5 Quick Facts Plus 4 Tips to Relieve Stress

This week we’re learning about stress along with some helpful tips to relieve your stress.

I think we’re all aware that stress comes with negative consequences and as a result, will subsequently impact our daily performance. After all, stress is short-term gain with long-term pain.

Scientists and medical doctors tend to agree that stress can have long-lasting harmful effects on our bodies and minds.

Listen to my audio recording to improve your knowledge about stress and some unconventional ways to alleviate those moments when stress strikes.

This Week’s Wellness Topic Featuring Stress

In this week’s audio topic, I talk about a few notable facts related to stress and provide you with ways to boost your mood. Here’s more of what you’ll learn.

• The difference between stress and anxiety — believe it or not, they are not the same!
• Why exercise is important not only to your body but your mind, too.
• Fresh air alone might just do the trick. Listen to learn whether or not this is true.
• Why we shouldn’t stress about stress while learning about two types of stress events.
• Does positive thinking really work? This phrase is repeated frequently on the Internet, but is it true?
• Can you laugh your way to relieve stress? Is it possible that something this simple can improve your mood?
• How our bodies respond to stress. We each handle stress differently. Learn how our bodies give away our secrets when we’re stressed.

Let’s Talk About Stress

What stresses you out? Your job? Your family? Clutter? I could go on.

The Mayo Clinic writes that chronic stress is an enemy that puts us at risk. While some may brush off stress as lacking any significance, we should seriously pay attention to what it does to our overall health.

And in a review article posted by the EXCLI Journal of Experimental and Clinical Sciences, the impact of stress results in functional and structural changes within our bodies and minds.

Near the end of my audio, I mention some simple techniques to get you started on reducing your stress levels.

Stress can lead to an unhappy and unproductive life. Photo by Pexels.com.

Heard in the Audio

Here are the organizations I mentioned in my audio. These groups offer general advice on stress and anxiety as well as additional ways to combat stress.

• National Institute of Mental Health
• Haas Wellness Center
• Healthline
• Anxiety & Depression Association of America
• American Psychological Association
• The Cleveland Clinic

Thanks for listening to the wellness topic of the week!