The word ‘stress’ is, to put it mildly, somewhat overused in modern society, with the word starting to become less than accurate to describe everything from the experience of losing a job with a family to look after, to not being able to handle a cliffhanger on television in the middle of a two-parter.
Stress in a medical sense, however, can not only have a seriously negative impact on your emotional wellbeing, but also your physical health too. If you have either being diagnosed with living with stress due to an incident, or else feel as if you are regularly living with high stress levels, then continue reading.
1. Laugh More!
Now, even though booking yourself into a laughter therapy session as soon as you have finished reading this article is perhaps a little drastic (and potentially slightly cringeworthy). It is absolutely true that surrounding yourself with positivity and positive people can serve to reduce stress.
Even solo pursuits, such as making sure you regularly watch stand-up comedians, either on television or else booking yourself a ticket for a physical comedy gig, can greatly increase the number of times you laugh in an average week. Just a few of the primary benefits of laughter for your health include:
- Trigger a release of endorphins
- Boost the number of T-cells in your immune system
- Improve the health of your heart
- Reduce the levels of stress hormones
2. Adopt from an Animal Charity
Next, whether you are a lifelong animal lover or have never been lucky enough to be surrounded by pets at home, animals and animal therapy is an exceedingly effective stressbuster.
If you are simply not home enough to be able to give an adopted dog, cat, rabbit or even budgie or other bird the time, attention and love they need, you could instead opt to volunteer at a local charity or rescue centre once a week and help out with the animals there.
3. Medical Cannabis
Another suggestion that you may well have never thought about before is to look into the wealth of benefits to booking an appointment at an established medical cannabis clinic.
One of the purported advantages of medical cannabis is to effectively reduce the signs and symptoms of both mental and physical stress. Other reported benefits of medical cannabis include a lowering of blood pressure, normalising heart rate, preventing a relapse of alcohol or drug addiction and reducing your levels of anxiety.
Healthcare professionals at the clinic will be able to talk over other treatment options and whether medical cannabis is suitable for your concerns, or whether something else should be tried before a cannabis prescription.
4. Reducing Loud Nose in Your Environment
Designing and regularly playing a custom-made track list of music you know can release happy hormones and help you get out emotions – whether that’s excess energy or helping you remember calming and more relaxing times. However, too many loud noises around you can have quite the opposite effect.
Loud noises, such as the television being constantly on in the background even when you are not watching the screen, make it impossible to re-centre yourself and calm and soothe your mind.
