In response to these daily stresses, your body automatically increases blood pressure, heart rate, respiration, metabolism, and blood flow. This stress response is intended to help your body react quickly and effectively to any suddden high-pressure situation. It's not meant to be a permanent solution.

A recent survey showed that 70-90% of us feel stressed at work and outside. With the divorce rate where it is the figures are probably similar inside. Today's fast paced lifestyle is putting a toll on us and our search for a reliable reliever of stress.

When you are constantly reacting to small or large stressful situations, without making physical, mental, and emotional adjustments to counter their effect you don't seem able to take the necessary reliever of stress steps. It doesn't have to be that way. There are reliever of stress steps we can take.

There has never been a time when more people know about stress or there were more books and classes on how to find a reliever of stress. Hospitals around the country have classes on stress meditation. There are more counsellors and therapists than ever before, and daily newspapers all offer articles about and strategies for relief of stress and making a better life. It is even possible to purchase supplies of stress relief tablets and herbal stress tabs from every chain drugstore.

Yet stress is making people sick. They have too much to do and can't sleep at night. They have high blood pressure worrying about paying bills. They despair that they can't get a handle on things. Poeple are crippled by anxiety and their fears. Every day the toll that stress is taking on people's physical and emotional health is etched even further into the fabric of their lives.

Still they don't learn. They carry on in the same old way taking the same dismal decisions

Stress can build up and have many bad effects, such as:You argue with the people you loveYou have anger management problemsYou have problems sleeping You have problems eatingYou have problems with bodily functionsYou have problems with your love lifeYou feel out of control You get moody or depressed You often feel irritable and annoyed Your self-confidence suffers You feel weepyYou feel 'lonely in a crowd'

A few tips for the relief of stress would be;

Resolve right now to release every thought from yesterday and be only think about now. This thought,this breath, this moment. Take in several very deep breaths and slowly release each one.

Next, think of one thing, such as rocking your baby, taking a quick stroll, raking the leaves, and do that one simple thing.  All the while, your mind is quiet and calm and you are in your own private world.

You can take charge of something today.  Single out one particular stressor in your life and then work on it until you regain control. At the very least, have some new hope!

We are not always able to escape our environment when we feel stressed.  For some, taking a simple walk to clear the head is something that must be put off.  What we all can do, though, is take a few moments to sit in our chair and use imagery to melt away our stress. 

Used with deep breathing, imagery can be a powerful anti-stress tool. Picture a pleasant and relaxing scene in your mind, this reduces stress. Your body quickly responds by relaxing. Reading a book or looking thru the articles on this directory will relax you and give you time to regain your equelibrium.