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Building Defenses Against Stress

The way we live our lives can have a huge impact on the way that we experience stress. This section of stress.mindtools.com shows how living a healthy lifestyle can help you reduce background stress levels. This makes you more resilient, and means that you can cope with major work stresses more effectively.

 

This is one part of dealing with intense long-term stress. Other parts involve developing support networks to relieve stress, and adopting enjoyable pastimes to counterbalance the unpleasantness of stress. Again, we look at these here.

 

Adopting a healthy lifestyle means that you can concentrate better and are more energetic in what you do. This is particularly important when you are in challenging or stressful situations. It is also important in building stamina (the ability to survive intensely stressful situations over the long term).

 

Equally important is achieving a good work-life balance. By offsetting the unpleasant, stressful events in your life with plenty of good, enjoyable events, you make life more tolerable and reduce the risk of burnout.

 

The articles below will help you adopt a more healthy lifestyle. Click here to read the first one.

 

James Manktelow and the stress.mindtools.com team

What This Section Gives You

Managing Your Support Networks

- Getting help when you need it

Rest, Relaxation and Sleep

Managing Chemical Stress

Managing Stress With Exercise

Minimizing Environmental Stress

Building Relaxation Techniques Into Your Lifestyle

Finding Other Ways of Relaxing

Applying This to Your Life

   

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Stress can cause severe health problems and, in extreme cases, can cause death. While these stress management techniques have been shown to have a positive effect on reducing stress, they are for guidance only, and readers should take the advice of suitably qualified health professionals if they have any concerns over stress-related illnesses or if stress is causing significant or persistent unhappiness. Health professionals should also be consulted before any major change in diet or levels of exercise.

 

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