Beating chronic stress is a long-term effort, and we’ve shared a lot of ways to deal with it—but what if you’re overcome with stress right now and just want to calm down? Here are ten ways you can bust through stress and get on with your day.
10. Catch It Right Away
Your body stresses out at some of the most mundane things, and it can spiral out of control quickly. One of the best ways to fight stress is to stop that “stress reflex” right when it starts. Work-life consultant and author Joe Robinson notes that “the stress spiral is weakest at the very beginning of the cycle, so that’s when you want to contest it.” If your overflowed inbox is getting you stressed out, start thinking early on whether that’s something really worth getting worked up over, and start using the following techniques as soon as you can.
“The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt,” wrote Sylvia Plath in her journal. And she couldn’t have been more accurate.
