Time Magazine recently published an entire magazine entirely focused on stress science and general wellness. We are obsessed! It got our brains flourishing about how we could add our expertise to these topics and share them with our audience. Keep reading to learn about our biggest takeaways when embracing stress and simple ways to manage your mood!

Embracing Stress

The stress response is a set of biological changes that helps you cope with stressful situations. Stress can affect many systems of your body from your cardiovascular system to nervous system. Although the stress response is meant to help your body – many people fear it. The rapid heart rate and nervous sweats end up increasing stress even further. Surprisingly, the stress response acts as an ally during a stressful situation. Embracing stress and its side effects can help you calm down faster.

Don’t get us wrong – stress is not a good thing. Even short-term stress can lead to complications when you’re older including a higher risk of heart attack or stroke. Chronic stress is the greatest risk to your health. Dealing with a stressor that lasts longer than a month can be dangerous. Whether it’s feeling anxious from social media, work or family obligations, stressors are everywhere.

Simple Ways to Manage Your Mood

Managing stress is essential to good health. Physical activity, meditation, breathing exercises and relaxation response training are some of the things you can teach yourself to manage stress. Laughter and spending time with family and friends also helps relieve stress.

Simple Ways to Manage Your Mood

Humans are equipped to deal with stress every day. However, there are many simple ways to manage your mood.

Focus on Intention

When dealing with a stressful situation, it’s important to focus your mind on positive feelings instead of the negative. Start every day with intention. When you choose to think intentionally, you can maintain a positive mindset even when stress arises.

Set Realistic Expectations

We live in an era of upgrade – where we are constantly looking for bigger and better in every aspect of our lives. Doing this can lead us to failure. Focus on what you have going on now, and worry less about the future.

Find a Confidant

Sometimes it takes an outside perspective to let us know that we’re not handling stress well. Finding a confidant can help us significantly reduce stress. Having a person that you can count on to hold you accountable is important when managing stress.

Write it Down

Writing down your feelings or mood is a therapeutic form of expression. Whether it’s in a notebook or on your computer, journaling for a month then analyzing your previous behavior/mood can help you identify certain life stressors.

Seek Peace and Love

Taking five minutes a day to find serenity is important. Whether this be listening to music, or finding time to take deep breaths. This will help boost your mind and body. Also, it’s important to avoid isolation. Seek love and support from others, including pets.

Next Steps

If you’re looking for instantaneous stress relief, try NuCalm. NuCalm is clinically proven to naturally relax the brain and body within minutes, without drugs. This patented technology addresses the brain circuitry in the limbic system, the hypothalamus and the brainstem responsible for producing stress and anxiety. NuCalm works specifically on the body’s inhibitory system, the GABAergic system to reset the naturally occurring negative feedback loop of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which when properly functioning is supposed to shut off and stop releasing cortisol from the adrenal glands after the end of a stressful event.

NuCalm consists of three discrete steps that work together to entrain brainwaves to the frequency of the first stages of sleep and create parasympathetic nervous system dominance. People in this state are physically unable to have an anxious response. Within moments of application, you will begin to feel relief from the ‘fight-or-flight’ sympathetic nervous system response and as our stress levels decline.

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