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5 Natural Ways To Relieve Stress Quickly

By: Chris Green

If stress, depression or anxiety is making your life a misery, then try these quick and easy tips to help you relieve stress quickly and naturally.

Avoid stress, anxiety and depression treatments that don't work, especially diets, nutritional supplements and antidepressant drugs. The food you eat or don't eat cannot cause nor cure stress, depression or anxiety. Drugs are used to treat chemical imbalances and as yet, there is no scientific evidence anywhere to prove that chemical imbalances cause stress, depression or anxiety. One of the main causes for all of them lies in flawed modes of thinking and these can be very effectively addressed and will bring more relief for you than food, supplements or drugs.

Try not to compare yourself to others who are in a seemingly worse position. This is a great way of fuelling guilt. For example, you see a report about a famine in Africa and you think "why do I feel like this when there's people who have it much worse than I do." Your circumstances in life are your circumstances and are nothing to do with anything or anyone else. Comparing yourself to others will not help you in anyway. Just realize that stress, anxiety and depression are real problems that can be dealt with and don't think about the situations others are in.

Feeling as if you're trapped in a rut or that your life is going nowhere is another part of stressful illnesses and this feeling can trigger depression. Doing the same routines day in, day out isn't good for us and although we do need some security, too much can cause problems. Take yourself out of your comfort zone and try something new. Start a course, a fitness program, try a new sport, learn a musical instrument, go on a activity holiday or take up a new hobby. New experiences add to the pleasure you get from life and keep your spark alive.

Solitude is another effect stress, depression and anxiety can have on sufferers. Of course, there are times when you just want to shut out the world and enjoy the peace and quiet and your own company. But if you seek solitude too much, you can just dwell upon your problems and this will make you feel even worse. Avoid this by occupying your mind. Read a book, write in your journal, play computer games or try solving jigsaw puzzles, logic problems, or crosswords. All of these will help you use solitude in a way that doesn't fuel stress, depression or anxiety by reducing the amount of time you spend dwelling on problems.

People who have never suffered from stress, depression or anxiety can make inappropriate comments about them that don't help at all. From telling sufferers to "snap out of it" to "you've got nothing to worry about so pull yourself together", such comments can just make a sufferer feel worse. If anyone does say these types of remarks to you, ignore them as they demonstrate a clear lack of understanding.

Put all 5 of these natural ways to relieve stress into practice and you'll quickly feel the stress melt away!


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