Holistic Stress Management
Diet and Lifestyle

Get tips to relax and combat stress with holistic stress relief techniques.

Learn how natural health remedies, diet and lifestyle can beat stress safely and effectively.

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One of the first steps to successful stress management and responding appropriately to your stress, is to identify the causes of your stress.

Learn more about understanding stress and holistic stress management.

Watch the short video clips below for more information, and read on to find out more…

Simply click on the image to start the video player… there are 14 clips, to be watched in order. (Find the first 10 videos in the first video block, and the final 4 videos in the block right below...)

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Video Clips continue below with clips 11 - 14 ...

Causes of Stress

• Your stresses can be physical stresses that you can do little about:
  • a noisy environment
  • pollution and environmental toxins
  • work or family pressures
  • a crying babay, ringing phone, noisy neighbours…etc.
• Your stresses may also be internal stresses:
  • anxiety, and worrying about your problems
  • diet stressors:
    • allergies or food intolerances
    • vitamin and mineral deficiencies
    • sugar
    • caffeine – chocolate, coffee, tea, cola
    • salt
    • red meat and dairy produce
    • processed foods and additives
    • alcohol and drugs
    • cigarettes
  • health problems
• You might not be able to change your situation, or the physical stresses you are subject to, but you can change the way you think or feel about them …. And the whole process of holistic stress management is to learn how to relax and to be less stressed!
• It can be beneficial to face up to your problems head on. Just see if you can actually do anything about them, rather than just worry.
• It is possible that simply taking a practical step and exploring all your avenues and options may show you that things aren’t actually as black and white as you first thought.
• Look for compromises and long term approaches to your stresses.
• Learn to relax…! (Yes! I know! but it might be easier than you think with these tips to relax and de-stress.)
• Spend more time with friends, and people who make you feel good about yourself. Avoid negative, or mentally draining people.
• Spend more time doing the things you enjoy. Take up new hobbies, or rediscover old ones.
• Take a break and try to establish an appropriate work-life balance. (More tips on tackling stress at work, further down the page.)
• Also look at the bigger picture of your whole life. Put less pressure on yourself, and try not to sweat the small stuff!
• Read more about how to do this in these natural remedies for anxiety and tips to relax and de-stress
• I know how difficult it is not to get stressed, when faced with what is, without question, a stressful situation - my fiance’s cancer, and my own diagnosis of M.E. have both been very stressful periods of my life.
• Just take your holistic stress management program gradually, one step at a time (don’t put pressure on yourself to de-stress instantly, and allow it to become another source of stress!). You will find you steadily learn to relax more, and cope better with your stresses.
• Don’t hesitate to consult your doctor if you are severely affected, or if stress begins to disrupt your everyday life.

Always remember to consult your healthcare provider before taking any decisions regarding your health.

A Look at Lifestyle

Diet

• Go for a general wholefood diet:
  • plenty of fruit and vegetables
  • plenty of wholegrains and pulses
  • lean protein – such as fish (especially oily fish) and chicken
• Avoid the diet stressors listed above
• Check for allergies, food intolerances and nutritional deficiencies
• Use this easy test to identify the main physical stresses on your body (including allergies and intolerances and vitamin and mineral deficiencies, as well as internal infections or problems you probably didn't even know existed!

  (It's the same test I used to kick start my recovery from M.E. - so I can wholeheartedly recommend it!)

• Sorting out the physical stresses on your body, gives your body much more energy to cope with any other worries or stresses you might have, much more calmly and effectively.

Lifestyle

• Get enough, good quality sleep.
• If insomnia, or other sleep problems, are amongst the symptoms of your stress, try these natural sleep remedies.
• Make time to relax and time to do the things you enjoy.

Work

• Work can be a major source of stress for most people. And as an external stress or influence, it can be very hard to control.
• Try to achieve a realistic work-life balance. Do you live to work, or work to live?
• You will find some of the tips to relax and natural remedies for anxiety are very useful.
• For more tips on coping with stress at work and some useful stress-busting exercises you can try yourself, take a look at this series of short video clips…

  Simply click on an image to start the video player…

Exercise

• You might not really feel like it, or feel like you can fit it into your stressful schedule, but exercise is one of the best things for holistic stress management.
• Choose an exercise you enjoy, and try to do a moderate amount, a few time a week.
• Start slowly, and try to build up your exercise program gradually.
• Try fun exercises - such as sports, or team games with other people.
• Try relaxing exercises - such as yoga or t’ai chi, which have aspects of meditation involved.
• Try outdoor exercises - such as walking or cycling.
• Getting out into nature will really help to relax you, and lift your mood. Try to do your exercise in a park, wood, beach or countryside. The benefits will be huge!

Getting these basics of holistic stress management in place will really give you a good basis to work from…

There are other holistic stress management techniques you can try too, to relax and distress…

Take a look at some very effective natural remedies for anxiety and stress

Look at some tips to relax and unwind.

And some herbal natural remedies for stress.

What works for you?

Do you have any tips and experiences in using holistic stress management techniques, to share? Tell us about your experiences...

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