Eczema Solutions - Fix Eczema With Natural Treatment - Chapter 9 - Managing & Avoiding Stress
The first thing you can do to reduce the amount of stress you have to put up with on a daily basis is to change your life so that you don't put yourself in situations where you are going to be stressed.
For example, if you are the kind of person who ends up running to the subway or railway station every morning for the very last train that will get you to work on time, try getting out of bed 10 minutes earlier so that you can catch a subway or train that is not so desperately last minute.
If you are always too rushed to eat properly because you hang around the office during your break times, try to get away for 30 minutes or an hour so that you are completely removed from the stress filled environment of work.
If you can find somewhere that is peaceful and relaxed to go to during your break, that's even better.
Sitting in the park feeding the ducks is going to be less stressful than fighting your way to the front of the queue in the local burger or fried food joint.
Try to plan your meals at home in advance as well.
By doing so, you ensure that you do not spend every evening immediately after leaving the office having to dash to the mall or convenience store to find food for the family dinner.
If you are almost always at the beck and call of your family, try to set aside some time for yourself, time when you can relax and perhaps even pamper yourself.
While it is absolutely commendable that you are going to do everything you can to help everyone else, you must realize that living your life at Mach 3 is going to damage your health.
When that happens, how will you be able to help and look after others when you are sick? Stress always floods your body with 'flight or fight' chemicals, which is extremely useful in genuine emergency situations.
However, once it becomes a constant factor of your life, it gradually wears you down and further damages your immune system (which as an eczema sufferer is probably in a pretty poor shape anyway) as it does so.
On the other hand, it is inevitable that if you slow down your everyday lifestyle, you will reduce the stress levels that you have to put up with on a daily basis as well.
When you do this, difficulties which are exacerbated by stress like eczema are likely to become far less problematical for you.
What we are talking about here is a complete reassessment of your life.
You must give yourself the time to take a step back so that you are able to assess everything you do in your normal day-to-day life, because it is only by knowing what you're doing that you can begin to change it.
For example, if you are the kind of person who ends up running to the subway or railway station every morning for the very last train that will get you to work on time, try getting out of bed 10 minutes earlier so that you can catch a subway or train that is not so desperately last minute.
If you are always too rushed to eat properly because you hang around the office during your break times, try to get away for 30 minutes or an hour so that you are completely removed from the stress filled environment of work.
If you can find somewhere that is peaceful and relaxed to go to during your break, that's even better.
Sitting in the park feeding the ducks is going to be less stressful than fighting your way to the front of the queue in the local burger or fried food joint.
Try to plan your meals at home in advance as well.
By doing so, you ensure that you do not spend every evening immediately after leaving the office having to dash to the mall or convenience store to find food for the family dinner.
If you are almost always at the beck and call of your family, try to set aside some time for yourself, time when you can relax and perhaps even pamper yourself.
While it is absolutely commendable that you are going to do everything you can to help everyone else, you must realize that living your life at Mach 3 is going to damage your health.
When that happens, how will you be able to help and look after others when you are sick? Stress always floods your body with 'flight or fight' chemicals, which is extremely useful in genuine emergency situations.
However, once it becomes a constant factor of your life, it gradually wears you down and further damages your immune system (which as an eczema sufferer is probably in a pretty poor shape anyway) as it does so.
On the other hand, it is inevitable that if you slow down your everyday lifestyle, you will reduce the stress levels that you have to put up with on a daily basis as well.
When you do this, difficulties which are exacerbated by stress like eczema are likely to become far less problematical for you.
What we are talking about here is a complete reassessment of your life.
You must give yourself the time to take a step back so that you are able to assess everything you do in your normal day-to-day life, because it is only by knowing what you're doing that you can begin to change it.