10 Tips – Prevent or Get Rid of Holiday Stress

Stress management in holidays and tips to prevent it

Happy Holidays

Holidays aren’t always as bright as we would like them to be. Along with happiness and joy they bring, they could also bring a sort of emptiness especially for lonely ones, can lead to stress and could spoil the relationships instead of consolidating them.

But let’s see the positive aspects of the holidays especially now when we’re in the season with the most beautiful holidays.

Learn how to prevent, avoid or get rid of stressful factors and stress in general. So, let’s view some of the triggers that may lead to stress and the ways to avoid or pass over them.

1.    If you’re experiencing difficulties or getting through a harder period, acknowledge the thing that it’s only a period, it won’t last an eternity.

2.    If you’re single and aren’t fond of the idea, find company for the holidays or spend them with the family especially if you know that it would be hard for you to pass over loneliness.

3.    Be realistic instead of being a perfectionist. You like the things to develop on your own way and make super-efforts for some minor issues. Calculate your efforts depending on the dimensions of the task and be realistic when it comes on comparing things. Things have a tendency to evolve rather than stagnate that’s why you’ll never ever have the last year’s holidays. Every year is different and there are too many factors that influence and contribute to a thing to be perfect or almost perfect.

4.    Planning ahead would be of a great help in preventing holiday stress. Plan your shopping days, your menu and make your shopping list. A list with the people would receive gifts from you this year would also be very helpful.

5.    Holiday time makes us more disposed to say yes when in normal conditions we would have rather said a big NO. Learn to easily recognize the situations when you should say no. If it’s not possible to say no, just accept the situation as it is.

6.    Stick to your gift budget while choosing the perfect gifts. Choose to ask people what they want instead of guessing and stressing about that.

7.    Write on a piece of paper the biggest fears and the probable stress factors you’ll have to deal with and on the other piece of paper the solutions or the ways to avoid them. The next step would probably surprise you. You should tear off in small pieces the paper with negative thoughts and throw them. Keep the paper with the solutions and read when you need it. Research studies prove the efficiency of the method when it comes to overcoming some stressful situations or negative thoughts.

8.    Avoid doing too much of something: overeating, overdrinking, and oversleeping. Every abuse, of every nature would only add stress. By making abuse of something you could easily disturb the fragile equilibrium of your organism. You body wouldn’t know about holiday, that you may need a break from diets, people, exercises or rules. More on nutritional-habits.com, usehealthguide.com and eatingrawfood.org

9.    Don’t forget about everyday things or tasks. Watching your diet is a must as it is exercising as you used to.

10.    Make time for yourself. It doesn’t have to be a whole day and not even an hour. Just 15 minutes spent alone, in silence, listening to some relaxing music, making a bath or whatever relaxes you would refresh you mind and body. You’ll be more able to manage and deal with stressful situations.

Take care of yourself especially now in holidays season when it’s more difficult to find peace and silence.

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