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Laugh!

Watch children playing and laughing in the park or on the school playground. Laughing is contagious. Try it, you’ll soon find others laughing right with you. What a great source of coping with stress.

Eating healthy, resting fully, and exercising regularly helps release tension and anxiety.

Eat healthy, rest fully, and exercise regularly. These three things can go far in helping you cope with stress and anxiety. Giving your body the proper nutrition will keep you healthier and help your self-esteem.

Allowing your body to relax and rejuvenate while you sleep will help you prepare for any stress that may come your way the following day.

Physical activity will help you feel and look better. When you feel and look better, your self-esteem grows and you feel more confident in facing life’s stress. Choose an activity that you like and makes you feel happy, and then take part in that activity at least five times a week.

Dance, walk and play are simple ways to reduce anxiety and stress

You can dance, walk, play with children or grandchildren, jog, or go bowling. All are good physical activities that help us cope with normal stress and anxiety.

It is normal for all of us to feel periods of stress and anxiety. If we are not able to cope with them, we are doing our bodies harm and threatening our own survival.

We would love to hear your comments. So go ahead and tell us what you think.

Cecil McIntosh, The EYC™ Stress Relaxation Expert with 14 years of experience helping  Entrepreneurs like you, transform stress into success. He is the creator of the Empty Your Cup Process™. An exclusive stress management  system for managing fear, anger and the uncertainty that results from constant change. Cecil  is also a Healer, Teacher, Therapist, NLP Trainer and life Coach. You can reach Cecil at cecil.mcintosh@gmail.com 

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Many of us already realize that stress is a killer. Stress causes high blood pressure, muscle tension, heart attacks, strokes and many other life threatening diseases. Stress aggravates symptoms of many common diseases.

So why do you need coping skills? 

It weakens our immune system making us more susceptible to the common cold and some allergies. Without learning how to cope with the stressors in our lives, can kill us!  Yes, we need to learn how to cope with anxiety, depression, and stress to have a healthy, fulfilling, and productive life.

Is stress healthy?

Remember, some forms of stress are healthy. Not every stressful situation is bad news. Good stress will help us perform our best when we need to take a test, have extra energy, or protect our loved ones or ourselves.

How well can we survive without coping skills?

Survival without coping skills is difficult and our quality of life will suffer. We need to learn to cope with the events in our lives that cause stress and anxiety. Without coping skills our bodies are not as capable of fighting off the enemies of our bodies.

Are coping skills easy to learn?

What are some ways of coping with everyday stress and anxiety? What about those that seem insurmountable? Many times we can learn coping skills to help us deal with the pressures and stress of normal day-to-day living.

Many coping skills important to our survival are easy to learn and free. In today’s economy, free is good!

Here’s one simple coping skill to practice.

One of the simplest coping skills we can learn is to enjoy the positives around us. Make a list and see how many positives that makes up your life. Add to your list as you discover a new one. Go over that list everyday until you can accept the positive and push out the negative.

So now you know the secret.

Coping skills are necessary for our survival. The better you are equipped to deal with the speed of change, the better quality of life you will experience.

We would love to hear your comments. So go ahead and tell us what you think.

Cecil McIntosh, The EYC™ Stress Relaxation Expert with 14 years of experience helping  Entrepreneurs like you, transform stress into success. He is the creator of the Empty Your Cup Process™. An exclusive stress management  system for managing fear, anger and the uncertainty that results from constant change. Cecil  is also a Healer, Teacher, Therapist, NLP Trainer and life Coach. You can reach Cecil at cecil.mcintosh@gmail.com 

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