Stress relieving techniques for a healthy heart
Here's how a typical hectic weekday of a 21st century employee looks like: Waking up at 8; getting dressed by 8:25, skipping breakfast, rushing to the office, handling like a hundred phone calls, making sure all the client meetings are taken care of, etc.
The same gruelling stressful routine is applicable to students, homemakers, lawyers, professors and almost anyone else you can think of.
So what can you do to manage stress and relieve some of the tension? Here are the top 5 few stress relieving techniques that you could try to calm yourself whenever you feel stressed out.
1. Breathing Exercises
Deep breathing is an easy stress relieving technique that has numerous benefits for the body. Taking long, deep breaths of air oxygenates the blood, which ‘wakes up' the brain, relaxing muscles and quieting the mind. Since they don't require a place or a time to be done, breathing exercises are quite helpful, and they work quickly so you can rejuvenate yourself in a flash. The Karate Breathing Meditation exercise is a great stress relieving technique to start with.
2. Meditation
Meditation is a stress relieving technique that reposes ondeepbreathing, and takes it a one step ahead. When you meditate, your brain enters an area of functioning, known as alpha mode that is similar to a feeling of drowsiness, but transition to this state has a few advantages, including the release of certain hormones that promote healthy well-being. Also, this seemingly spaced outstate keeps your mind from working too hard and keeps your stress level fro, skyrocketing.
3. Music
Listening to music, believe it or not, is in fact one of the most effective stress relieving technique. It has shown numerous health benefits for people with major as well as minor health conditions. The right kind of music can help a great deal in lowering blood pressure, relaxing your body and tranquilizing your mind. The trick here is to find the appropriate kind of music. Need I even mention that Heavy Metal must not feature in the playlist?
4. Exercise
Exercising can not only be good for your body, it's also great for your mind. Exercising can help you get healthier, control weight, become more physically attractive, while also reducing your stress levels. Exercise provides a distraction from stressful situations, and also provides an outlet to vent your frustrations. All in all, exercising is a great stress relieving technique.
5: Sex!
This isn't a joke. Not only is having sex a pleasurable and gratifying stress relieving technique that gets rid of your tensions, but it also does great job of kicking steam out of your stress reserves. The physical benefits of sex are numerous, and most of them work very well toward relieving stress. Just make sure you have safe sex though or else you might end up even more stressed out than you were before!
Besides high levels of stress, the lifestyle of the current generation also makes them prone to several heart diseases. Here are the top 3 simple measures to preventing heart disease:
1: Don't smoke or chew tobacco
Smoking or using tobacco is one of the most significant driving forces in development of a heart disease. The nicotine in cigarette smoke makes your heart work harder by narrowing blood vessels and increasing your heart rate and blood pressure. More than 50 percent of heart attacks among middle-aged women are attributable to tobacco. Risk of cardiovascular disease begins to decline within months of smoking cessation and reaches the level of persons who have never smoked within 3 to 5 years. So, not smoking or chewing tobacco can help greatly in preventing heart disease.
2: Take a brisk walk daily
By brisk walking, I mean power walking a mile in about 20 minutes (three miles an hour). Recent studies have shown that the risk of a heart attack can be mitigated by 30-40% in women who walked briskly for at least 3 hours each week. A daily routine of such kind of activity would help in preventing heart disease.
3. Maintain a healthy diet.
Obesity and sedentary lifestyles are the bane of the 21st century lifestyle that contributes to increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Obesity has become highly prevalent among both men and women in the United States in the past decade; currently about one third of adult women (or 34 million) are classified as obese. Diets low in saturated fat and high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fiber can greatly help in preventing heart disease.
The same gruelling stressful routine is applicable to students, homemakers, lawyers, professors and almost anyone else you can think of.
So what can you do to manage stress and relieve some of the tension? Here are the top 5 few stress relieving techniques that you could try to calm yourself whenever you feel stressed out.
1. Breathing Exercises
Deep breathing is an easy stress relieving technique that has numerous benefits for the body. Taking long, deep breaths of air oxygenates the blood, which ‘wakes up' the brain, relaxing muscles and quieting the mind. Since they don't require a place or a time to be done, breathing exercises are quite helpful, and they work quickly so you can rejuvenate yourself in a flash. The Karate Breathing Meditation exercise is a great stress relieving technique to start with.
2. Meditation
Meditation is a stress relieving technique that reposes ondeepbreathing, and takes it a one step ahead. When you meditate, your brain enters an area of functioning, known as alpha mode that is similar to a feeling of drowsiness, but transition to this state has a few advantages, including the release of certain hormones that promote healthy well-being. Also, this seemingly spaced outstate keeps your mind from working too hard and keeps your stress level fro, skyrocketing.
3. Music
Listening to music, believe it or not, is in fact one of the most effective stress relieving technique. It has shown numerous health benefits for people with major as well as minor health conditions. The right kind of music can help a great deal in lowering blood pressure, relaxing your body and tranquilizing your mind. The trick here is to find the appropriate kind of music. Need I even mention that Heavy Metal must not feature in the playlist?
4. Exercise
Exercising can not only be good for your body, it's also great for your mind. Exercising can help you get healthier, control weight, become more physically attractive, while also reducing your stress levels. Exercise provides a distraction from stressful situations, and also provides an outlet to vent your frustrations. All in all, exercising is a great stress relieving technique.
5: Sex!
This isn't a joke. Not only is having sex a pleasurable and gratifying stress relieving technique that gets rid of your tensions, but it also does great job of kicking steam out of your stress reserves. The physical benefits of sex are numerous, and most of them work very well toward relieving stress. Just make sure you have safe sex though or else you might end up even more stressed out than you were before!
Besides high levels of stress, the lifestyle of the current generation also makes them prone to several heart diseases. Here are the top 3 simple measures to preventing heart disease:
1: Don't smoke or chew tobacco
Smoking or using tobacco is one of the most significant driving forces in development of a heart disease. The nicotine in cigarette smoke makes your heart work harder by narrowing blood vessels and increasing your heart rate and blood pressure. More than 50 percent of heart attacks among middle-aged women are attributable to tobacco. Risk of cardiovascular disease begins to decline within months of smoking cessation and reaches the level of persons who have never smoked within 3 to 5 years. So, not smoking or chewing tobacco can help greatly in preventing heart disease.
2: Take a brisk walk daily
By brisk walking, I mean power walking a mile in about 20 minutes (three miles an hour). Recent studies have shown that the risk of a heart attack can be mitigated by 30-40% in women who walked briskly for at least 3 hours each week. A daily routine of such kind of activity would help in preventing heart disease.
3. Maintain a healthy diet.
Obesity and sedentary lifestyles are the bane of the 21st century lifestyle that contributes to increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Obesity has become highly prevalent among both men and women in the United States in the past decade; currently about one third of adult women (or 34 million) are classified as obese. Diets low in saturated fat and high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fiber can greatly help in preventing heart disease.
