MISCELLANEOUS TIPS

If you are still not sure about how to reduce the levels of stress you feel during the day, here are some basic tips and guidelines you can follow to help manage stress.

• Take a break during your workday, and get outside for some fresh air and a change of scenery.
• Make exercise a part of your daily routine.
• Use breathing techniques to provide both short and long term relief
• Learn to delegate chores and responsibilities, both at home and work
• Know your body's natural rhythms and work with them--if your energy level is higher in the morning, tackle your most challenging tasks during those hours.
• Talk it out--confinde in good friends.
• Make a stress ball!  Use a balloon and fill it up with either rice or sand and tie the balloon and you have made your own peronsal stress ball.
• Repeat a positive prayer or affirmation.
• Learn how to laugh, especially at yourself.
• Use good posture.
• Avoid excessive caffeine.