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- Get set for your day - Start when you wake up and make sure all the things that would make you feel "complete", get done. Whether it's exercising, eating breakfast or putting on those perfect earrings, do everything that needs to be done to put you on the right track for your day.
- Take the time to take care of yourself - Exercise, eat balanced meals, take breaks throughout the day and get enough sleep.
- Create a balance between time for work, family and yourself - Have a weekly datenight with your spouse, start a gamenight with your kids, and have a little "me time" as well.
- Don't over commit yourself
- Prioritize tasks and delegate duties
- Become a master of body language - Learn how to read another person's facial expressions, gestures, posture and tone of voice. This will help you to know when to stay clear of someone else's excess stress. You can also become a master of knowing when to add some fun to dull or dragging activities.
- Check your attitude - A positive attitude/outlook will help calm and pull together what could be a stressful situation.
- Indulge your senses - Sight: surround yourself with images, colors or items that make you smile. Touch: renew yourself with a soft blanket, hold your kitty, soak in a hot bath. Hear: play your favorite song, hum, sing, listen to a water fountain and/or wind chimes. Smell: light a scented candle, burn incense, add lavender oil to a scent dish, brew coffee, ...
- Use relaxing scents - Studies have shown that the top five essential oils for relaxation are lavender, chamomile, bergamot, sandalwood and mandarin. Also, jasmine, lavender, neroli and rose have been found to increase alpha and theta brain waves, indicating relaxation.
- Massage Therapy - A good massage can leave you deeply relaxed.
- Yoga - Balances the body by developing your flexibility and strength through postures/poses.
- Tai Chi - Moving energy throughout the body by combining relaxed, flowing body movements with deep breathing.
- Meditation - Focus on an object, sound, phrase, image or thought and breath deeply for 20-30 minutes.
- Deep Breathing - When you feel overwhelmed, take several deep breathes. To keep from getting overwhelmed, breath deeply and slowly from the abdomen for 10-20 minutes every day.
- Progressive Muscle Relaxation - Start with your feet and for 10 seconds, tighten and then relax every muscle group in the body.
- Mindfulness Meditation - Focus on what you are seeing, tasting, smelling, touching, ... in this moment. For example, with each step you take feel the sensation of your foot touching the ground, your breathing at the time, the feel of the air around you, what you are seeing, what you are smelling, ...
- Guided Imagery/Visualization Meditation - In your mind, create for yourself a special hide-away where you find total peace, relaxation and rejuvenation. Go there for 10-20 minutes every day!
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