Stress management in day to day life

I experienced stress in Haiti and it gave me new learnings. Well, it's not new to world but it was my learning and i experienced it. From that experience, i have been thinking and analyzing the easy ways to manage stress.

Stress at work, Stress at home, Stress in relations, Stress in family life, we all suffer from some or the other form of stress in life. Stress has become the most common word in our fast day to day life. Stress can be due to workplace pressures, tensions in relationships etc. etc. Stress normally disturbs our physical and mental health. Due to stress a person fails to respond appropriately to emotional or physical threats to the organism.


Common stress symptoms include irritability, muscular tension, inability to concentrate and a variety of physical reactions, such as headaches and accelerated heart beat. Otherwise stress can also cause backache, insomnia, fatigue, hypertension, eating disorder etc. So it is very clear that STRESS can create havoc with life.

So it is imperative that we need to be cool & calm in life. Stress needs to be avoided in all cases in life. So the question is How to remain cool and calm?

First thing is to have a look into lifestyle and do necessary changes. Remaining peaceful at mind in all circumstances and "Be happy" all the time is key.

Second important thing is that just try to make harmonious relations with the people all around. Be friendly with relations & people around at workplace. Once it is done than you are better off & much peaceful.

Next thing is enjoying work. This will ease tackling burden and work pressure. With the presence of peace in mind, stress has no space or scope in mind.

As Bhagwat Gita teaches, we need to be happy with our present state of life and should not hanker after the material desires. As Bhagwat Gita teaches us (Chapter Two verse 48) :

"Yoga-sthah kuru karmani
sangam tyaktva dhananjaya
siddhy-asiddhyoh samo bhutva
samatvam yoga ucyate"

"Sri Krishna said to Arjuna: Perform your duty with an equipoise mind, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called Yoga."

So working with 100% involvement & dedication & derive pleasure out of doing such work. Other than that, we need to learn some relaxation techniques such as meditation, doing deep breathing exercises, listening to soul soothing music etc. Having a long simple walk, doing some physical exercises, massaging the body can also help in reducing the stress.