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Do you often feel like you’re going to lose your mind if you continue to work in such a stressful workplace?  We all experience stress on the job. It is not unique to anyone, but what is unique to each of us is how we deal with it.

You can learn to deal with work-related stress in a positive manner so it doesn’t continue to hold you back.  When you are unable to deal with stress effectively, you can’t be as efficient or effective on the job and, more importantly, your health will suffer.

Techniques to Deal with Stress at Work

 When you feel stressed out at work, you need to learn how to harness your emotions so you can move forward.  Luckily, there are many ways you can do this; you just need to find which technique works best for you.

Here are five workplace stress techniques:

1. The best thing you can do when you feel the stress coming to a boil is to stop what you’re doing and just breathe.  You’ll be surprised at how much it helps just to take a breath and gather your thoughts.  In fact, take ten slow, deep breaths, then return to your work.  The great thing about this technique is that you can do it anywhere, even when you’re sitting in your boss’s office!

2. Take a moment to write.  When you start to feel stressed, find some privacy, pull out a blank piece of paper, and write freely for five minutes.  Free, uncensored writing for just a few minutes will allow you to get the emotions out of your mind for good. When you put all of the emotions down on paper, crumple it up and throw it away. Then try to return to work without the stress.

3. Use positive imagery.  Keep a calming picture on your desk or on your computer background and when you feel like you cannot take anymore, stare at the image and imagine yourself there.  Doing this for even 60 seconds can restore your sanity so you can move forward without the crippling effects of stress.

4. Listen to peaceful music.  If you put on calming music when you’re stressed, you may find that it can instantly calm you like nothing else. If you keep the music quiet and peaceful, you’ll feel at ease during your work day. Music is a great way to find peace and lose the stress.

5. Use positive thinking.  When stressful and negative thinking is getting the best of you, you can counter it with positive statements and thoughts.  You can say things such as, “I can manage stress because I proactively choose peace.”  When you repeat positive sayings in your life, you’ll be able to squeeze out negative thoughts from your mind, and move towards the positive.

These are five simple ways to cope with stress on the job. The great thing is that you can quickly and easily incorporate these strategies into your work day without allowing stress to overwhelm you.

Every day will bring new stressors into your workplace, and that is why you should have several different coping techniques in your stress management toolkit. Once you begin to incorporate these strategies into your life, you will find that everyday stress will become easier to deal with, and you will actually feel healthier and more productive.

Why do we get stressed at work?

What helps you overcome that stress?

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Even if you love your job, there are going to be days where you are going to experience stress.  Many people allow stress to get the best of them, but you don’t have to.  You can learn to cope with workplace stress so you can use the stress to move you forward instead of hold you back.

A Look At Workplace Stress

When you are stressed out about your work, you may feel like you are on an island all by yourself.  Of course, it isn’t the case at all.  Did you know that as many as a quarter of the people you work with right now feel as though the workplace is the biggest stressor in their life?  It is also thought that three quarters of employees feel as though they have more on-the-job stress than their parents ever did.

On-the-job stress is not something unique to you – everyone experiences it! Sometimes just knowing this is enough to help you get through to the other side so you can start feeling happy and healthy again.

Thankfully, there is something you can do to reduce workplace stress in your life.

Workplace Stress Solutions

Some solutions to workplace stress include:

• Letting the little things go, it probably doesn’t matter anyway
• Proactively balancing work and family life
• Creating a support network of friends and family, or even co-workers

Letting Things Go

The fact is, when you allow yourself to take a more relaxed and positive outlook on the world, it will suddenly become a lot more relaxed and positive.  When you choose to have a positive approach in life, you’ll likely find that the things that would have stressed you out before will now roll off your back.  It’s not that you won’t feel stress; it’s just that you will have a more positive way of interpreting things so that stress is not necessarily such a bad thing.

Finding Work-Life Balance

When work takes over our lives, that’s usually when we become stressed out at work and when we cannot cope well.  You should make sure that you engage in daily activities that do not involve work, even if this is simply reading a chapter of your favorite book or picking up the phone to call a friend.  When you allow your work life to consume you, stress will consume you too. In turn, you’ll become less efficient and effective at your job.

Relieve Work Stress with Quality Family Time

Make sure you spend time with your friends, family, or even your co-workers outside of work.  We often allow our home to become an office away from the office. That’s no good! Make sure you have a support network of friends and family members who will remind you that there are plenty of things to do that aren’t related to your work in any way.  It’s also helpful to have this support network so that when you are stressed out, you’ll have someone to turn to. Oftentimes a support system helps keep us grounded when we would otherwise be tightly wound with work-related stress.

It’s true that stress is a part of life, but that doesn’t mean it needs to consume us. Stress will come and go, but coping is something that needs to be ongoing so you can live a great life inside and outside of your professional life.

How can workplace stress affect your life?

How can your family help you cope with workplace stress?

Talk about that in the Personal Growth Cafe Community!

Also, as your gift for taking this to heart – and this is profoundly important… to us ALL – go to UnitingPlanetEarth.com/ignition/ and do the Uniting Planet Earth 7-Day Quick-Start Ignition Program… and Allow it to Transform Your Life.

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