Sometimes you feel like there’s no way out of
the stress that you are in. Sometimes the friend’s advices don’t seem enough to
cope up with your situation. Sometimes you just feel like running away from
everything and everyone. Sometimes you feel like going to some place new and
start afresh. But you know what – only cowards run away from problems and
stress in life. Real people know how to be in the situations and fight for
their rights and lives.
My biggest question is – why get into stress when you can avoid it completely? People search
for natural remedies for stress, but nobody searches or writes on
different ways to avoid negativity and stress in life. After all, you get
stressed because you take it. Sometimes, you need to get up and breathe and
then get back into the situation to fight and cope up with it.
Don’t get confused – I neither suggest people
to run away from their problems nor sit and crib over it. I am a very
optimistic person and I believe in avoiding stress for as long as I can. So how do I do that? Following are some
of the ways in which I avoid stress in my life:
- I completely ignore negative people – I once had a best friend who had a lot of problems in her life. She always came to me and discussed about her life. I helped her as much as I could. However, I then realized I was highly stressed and had weight gain because her stress was stressing me more than her. So what did I do? I told her bluntly not to talk about her problems. No, I was not rude. I helped her with the solutions. I only asked once about her problems and told her never to crib over it. Now, she is happily settled with two beautiful daughters and an amazing husband in life. We aren’t friends anymore because of the distance, but we do exchange hellos every now and then!
- Turn down the volume of the TV when there’s
any rape or violent scene in the movie – If you are not comfortable with
violence or rape scenes in a movie, change the channel or leave the place
for a few minutes. This is what I do. In fact, I don’t even watch news
because I believe that it stresses me and I can’t afford to be stressed in
life!
- Meditate for at least an hour in a day – Meditation does help. Try it!
- Get a new haircut – I know you are going to laugh on this, but a lot of
people say that a new haircut tends to avoid negativity in their lives.
This is one of the reasons why women go for trimming the hair every six
months!
