Stress Management Tips For A Healthy Heart

Managing your stress is imperative to maintaining good health. It has been proven that stress is one of the risk factors for heart disease. We’ve all heard stories of people who have had heart attacks when they were very angry or stressed out.When you’re nervous, you feel like you have ‘butterflies’ in your stomach. When a lover cheats on you or leaves you, it actually feels like your heart is ‘heavy’… and we often say that a ‘weight has been lifted off our shoulders’ when a problem is settled.

So, what are these ‘butterflies’ and imaginary ‘weights’ that is pulling your heart and shoulders down?

The answer, of course, is stress. The weight and butterflies are just physiological responses to the stress. In reality, your body releases stress chemicals into your body and over prolonged periods, it can take a severe toll on your health and age you beyond your years.

Getting control of your stress is of paramount importance to having a healthy body, mind and heart. In this article, you’ll learn 7 tips that will help you to do this.

1. Be Proactive

You MUST be proactive when it comes to de-stressing. Do not assume that stress will go away on its own. This is the biggest mistake people make. They live like robots and repeat the same monotonous routine daily.

Go to work, get stressed, come home, eat, sleep, wake up stressed… go to work… and as you can see, it never ends. Do not procrastinate your breaks.

Take time to laugh and have fun. Do not feel guilty. We live in a hectic and chaotic society that’s focused on material pursuits and success, while sacrificing peace of mind and health in the process.

At the end of the day, what really matters is that you are happy. Happiness is found in living and not in the chase. Focus on the little pleasures in life. Watch a comedy. Go for a movie. Swim in the beach. Ride a rollercoaster.

Do what it takes to give you a mental break from the stresses that weigh you down. When it seems like nothing you do will make you happy, that’s when you MUST do something. It doesn’t matter what you’re doing, just do something that engages your mind and body so that you get that mental break.

2. Sleep Well

Get at least 7 hours of sleep a day. The Dalai Lama, once said that sleep is the best meditation. Get good sleep daily.

3. Journaling

Keeping a journal is an excellent way to relieve stress. Putting your thoughts and emotions on paper can be cathartic. It’ll help to clear your mind too. Later on, when you’ve moved past the problem, you can look back and read your journal and you’ll realize that stressing out was pointless.

4. Focus on the Now

Don’t worry what troubles tomorrow will bring. Just focus on dealing with today. Many stressed out people create imaginary situations and problems in their mind, and in most cases, these never come to pass.

Focus on today and let tomorrow take care of itself. Today has enough problems of its own. Don’t trouble your heart with unnecessary worries.

5. Don’t Judge

This is one of the hardest things to do, and yet, it’s one of the best things that you can learn to do. Do not judge people, situations, circumstances, etc. Live in this world, but not of it.

If you look at your colleague and he has a better car, you may feel stressed out that your existence is pathetic and poor. You’ve judge yourself unnecessarily. Keep your spirits up, and work towards your goals. Don’t put yourself down by judging and comparing.

This applies to your spouse, kids, job, material possessions, etc. Every single time you judge or compare, you’ll probably end up dissatisfied. Accept your life for what it is, and strive to do better. Your heart will thank you for it.

6. Exercise

Exercise daily and take up physical activities that you love. Exercise is more than just a great stress reliever. It has a tremendous impact on your body and mind too. Your stamina gets better. Your muscles and bones get stronger. Your mind becomes clearer.

There are so many benefits of exercise that you just cannot afford to not do it. The “I have no time” excuse doesn’t carry any weight here. Exercise is just too important to ignore. People who have no time for it, often end up not having much time on earth either.

7. Motivate Yourself Regularly

Keep your spirits up by motivating yourself regularly. Motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar once said, “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”

He’s absolutely right. There are thousands of motivational videos on YouTube, and they’re all free for you. Experts like Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar, Les Brown and many more have tons of advice on how you can live life in a more fulfilling way.

All you need to do is watch them. These speeches will reduce your stress, raise your energy levels and give you the hope and strength to take life on and be a winner.

Observe these 7 tips and do whatever it takes to reduce your stress. One of the keys to having a healthy heart is to not sweat the small stuff. Get rid of as much stress as you can. Your heart will thank you for it.

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Now I’m sure that you have tried all sorts of techniques to try to help you reduce stress, curtail your excessive busyness or get connected to your authentic self, and you “know” these techniques, but the real question is, are you doing them on a regular basis? So many High Achievers tend to know a lot about the techniques, but fail to have a proper framework in place to really help them cultivate and maintain their well-being while having high-powered careers.

The Mission Of Holistic Success

The experience that you have in your life is dependent upon your commitment to your well-being and in today’s fast-paced world, it requires undertaking it as a mission. Because if you’re not undertaking it as a mission, then it’s just an interest. And if it’s just an interest, when you get busy in your life, interest can get easily pushed aside, but a mission of holistic success helps you make it a priority in your life.

Today, I invite you to embark upon the journey of a lifetime. The journey of Holistic Success. Holistic Success is not a destination, but rather a meaningful lifestyle based on cultivating a deep relationship with your authentic self, which helps to fuel your passion for life so that you can pursue your goals and have room in your life for your well-being.

Ready to grab the reigns of your life back from busyness, overwhelm and a general feeling of “bla” in your life?

To learn more about how we can help you reduce burnout and cultivate a greater sense of peace, flow and ease in your life, I invite you to learn how to take your life back from the matrix of time deprivation and burnout by watching my free Holistic Success Masterclass at http://www.HolisticSuccessInstitute.com

Cheers, JD WildFlower