To have instant stress relief during your busy schedule, you could actually perform the following:

1. While you feel stressful, close your eyes while sitting down or standing up, count to ten, take deep and slow breaths. Play your favorite music if available.
2. While deep breathing, talk to your mind ” I am relaxed, I have let go my stress and I am OK” repeatedly.
3. While your eyes are still closed, visualise you are doing fun things in your favorite nature scene.
4. After feeling calmer, do mental rehearsal by visualizing how you would cope with the stressful situation or people. See yourself being cool, calm and collected.
5. Activate your sense of humor and maximize your emotional intelligence. See things from the lighter and brighter sides to find creative alternative solutions.
6. Gently stretch your shoulders, neck, arms and feet and other light physical movements. Make faces to stretch and relax your facial muscles. If possible, get a light massage on your neck and shoulders where you feel tense to increase circulation and relax your neuromuscular system.
7. Having a coffee break.
8. If you found your mind started mental imagination to blast or confront the stressor, try to drift back your mind and switch to the stress relief steps mentioned above.

Stress is something we can not avoid in life, thus finding ways to relief your stress is of utmost important to avoid it from throwing our life off balance.

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