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1. Exercise Regularly

Your brain is part of your body. And if you’re not taking care of your body, how can you expect your brain to function well and be resilient to stress?

I know consistent exercise is tough for all sorts of very legitimate reasons. But that doesn’t make it any less important.

If you’re chronically stressed and not consistently exercising, just stop reading right here and start make a plan to make this happen. Even 20 minutes a day of brisk walking is an excellent start and will make a dramatic difference in your stress levels.

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4. Make time to worry on purpose

Most people who are chronically stressed are also chronically worried.

I mean, why wouldn’t you be stressed all the time if you’re constantly catastrophizing, playing out terrible outcomes in your mind, and imagining the worst?

Unfortunately, you can’t just tell your brain to stop w...

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5. Find a different job or career

Everyone wants to believe that if they just put on a happy face and do some positive self-talk each morning, or do some bubble bath self-care, all their stress is going to magically melt away.

If you’re stressed out all the time it’s likely because the structure of your life is lit...

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2. Spend more time with supportive people

If you’re stressed, there’s a good chance that stress involves other people—conflict with a spouse or family member, worry about coworkers or bosses, etc.

What people seem less aware of is that other people can also be one of the biggest sources of stress relief and resilience. Specificall...

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5 Stress Management Tips

Here are one psychologist’s 5 favorite stress management tips that you probably don’t want to hear

  1. Exercise Regularly
  2. Spend more time with supportive people
  3. Lower your expectations of other people
  4. Make time to worry on purpose
  5. Find a different job or car...

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3. Lower your expectations of other people

It seems like a law of human nature that, left unchecked, our expectations of people only increase with time—especially the people closest to us.

It also seems like a law of human nature that we strongly resist examining our expectations of other people, much less—God forbid!—actually lower...

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1. Exercise

1. Exercise

Get your day started right by getting the blood flowing. In Japan, companies used to have their employees start their mornings with some light exercise.

According to the Harvard Medical School, exercise “reduces levels of the body’s stress hormones, such as adrenaline and c...

Getting Sufficient Sleep

Getting Sufficient Sleep

When you’re consistently not getting enough sleep, you get used to feeling tired, and your body adapts to function on that amount of sleep. But this doesn’t mean that you’re performing at your best on this amount of sleep. 

Even when you don’t feel physically ti...

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