{"id":8778,"date":"2011-02-10T00:23:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T06:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=8778"},"modified":"2011-02-10T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T16:30:18","slug":"stress-reducers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2011\/02\/10\/stress-reducers\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m so stressed I could eat a monkey! 3 Effective Stress Reducers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Stress can really take a toll on your physical and mental health.\u00a0 This unfortunately has been proven to make you less immune to colds and flu\u2019s, poor job performance, make you cranky, cause skin disorders such as acne and hives and a slew of other things that sound like bad side effects from a prescription drug.\u00a0 The good news it there are about 10,000,000,001 things you can do as a stress reducer that will also up your energy.\u00a0 Here are a few:<\/p>\n

1.Set aside \u201cme\u201d time<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t know about you, but if I don\u2019t get to read a book whilst sitting in my bubble bath every night I am one cranky soldier.\u00a0 It seems like the days are getting shorter everyday because we keep cramming more crap in to them.\u00a0 When putting together your to-do list for tomorrow make sure you plan some \u201cme\u201d time in their FIRST.\u00a0 That way when the schedule is full you won\u2019t be cranky cause there wasn\u2019t some time for you just to do what you want to do.<\/p>\n

2.Power Naps<\/strong>
\nAmy Mac (withAMYmac.com<\/a>) is a freakin’ MAD GENIUS with her power naps.\u00a0 It is amazing to see her get the 3 o\u2019clock slump.\u00a0 Instead of fighting it like the whole world does, she will go to the back room and lay down for 20-30 minutes.\u00a0 It is not uncommon for me to turn around 30 minutes later to a body slam from the top of her desk because of her high energy after her nap.\u00a0 I am always totally surprised! Not because of the amount of energy she has but because she wears one of those mexican wrestling masks and it freaks me out.<\/p>\n

This is actually a common thing for a lot of offices.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t already have a cot in the back room, ask your boss if it is a possibility to put one there.\u00a0 Any smart manager will allow 20 minutes of downtown to not lose a whole afternoon of work.<\/p>\n

3.Cry<\/strong>
\nWho does not feel better after a good cry?\u00a0 (Except for men cause they don\u2019t cry ever, ever, ever.)\u00a0 Traditionally, women cry more than men and I\u2019m pretty sure every single one of them will tell you they feel better after they cry.\u00a0 Wanna know something cool?\u00a0 Studies have actually shown that the tears you produce when your angry, upset, or anxious contain STRESS RELIEVING HORMONES.<\/p>\n

How to Relieve Stress!<\/a><\/p>\n

So there you have it all you have to do is set aside some \u201cme\u201d time, take a nap, and then get it all out with a big fat cry (and maybe some ice cream).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

How do you de-stress? Let me know in the comments and I\u2019ll check ’em after my bubble bath.<\/p>\n

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Stress can really take a toll on your physical and mental health.\u00a0 This unfortunately has been proven to make you less immune to colds and flu\u2019s, poor job performance, make you cranky, cause skin disorders such as acne and hives and a slew of other things that sound like bad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,23,873,1507,1505,1506,1503,1504,21],"class_list":["post-8778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amy-mac","tag-fit-life","tag-health-and-fitness-tips","tag-how-to-handle-stress","tag-overstressed","tag-overwhelmed","tag-stress-reducers","tag-stressed","tag-withamymac"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}