By John Cloud for TIME Magazine
1) Learn How to Breathe
As Dr. Martin Rossman writes in his new book
The Worry Solution, "I never imagined when I went to medical school how much time I was going to spend simply teaching many of my patients how to breathe." (Dr. Rossman is a long-time mind-body specialist who teaches at the University of California.....
2) Exercise — Then Relax
Exercising is one of the best stress-relievers around, so this may sound counterintuitive, but Rossman points out that muscles can often feel tense a day or two after hard workouts. Tension causes lactic acid to accumulate, which contributes to stress. Ways to relieve that stress are relaxation techniques like light yoga...
3) Write Down What You Are Worried About
Psychologists have shown that simply jotting down all your worries (big or small) can help you separate those that are fixable from those that aren't...
4)Track Outcomes of Worries You Can't Do Anything About
See how many of your fears actually come true. You can do this for two weeks or two years. Rossman notes that Robert Leahy, who directs the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, has found that 85% of worries don't have the bad outcome that the worrier had feared...
5) Clarify Your Goals, or Set New Ones
Don't just go along with the same routine every day, because the same routine will produce the same worries. Changing things up will help you generate new ideas...
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