Nadia Murdock (Manage Your Stress)
Nadia is a mindset and movement coach with a B A in Psychology and certification in cognitive behavioural therapy who helps individuals build self confidence and adopt a positive m...
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How can you manage stress through breathing?
The favourite tool I love to give everyone is to remember to breathe. The power in your breath can calm you immensely. It's nothing that is, you have to overthink. It's free, and it's always accessible to you. Just remembering to pause, relax your shoulders, close your eyes, and take a deep breath. It will calm you down. It'll provide mental clarity. It will create emotional calmness and allow you to look at the situation with a clear head.
What are some physical signs of stress?
If you're just going throughout your day, grabbing more coffee to stay awake, ignoring the signs that are showing up physically, then you're ignoring disease that could be created within the body due to stress. The truth is each emotion you have shows up physically in your body. Think about it. When you get nervous, you may get a pit in your stomach. When you're tired, you may even get a headache. When you're angry, you may feel it in your head. Each emotion you have, you can feel it in your body, and you will know this when you pay attention to the mind and body connection.
How does the mind-body connection help with stress management?
So how does mind and body connection help with stress management? It's a sign, it's almost like an alarm. It's almost like a tap on your shoulder to say slow down. When you ignore those signs, you create sickness, you create illness. And time and time again that comes up bigger and bigger until you may have to do something about it. Don't let it get to that point. So managing stress is knowing when you're stressed, knowing when you're triggered. Maybe it's work, maybe you've been given a huge assignment and now you feel a headache coming on pause. That is your trigger. That is your side.