How to avoid stress

Manage your time

Time management is a way to find the time for more of the things you want and need to do. It helps you decide which things are urgent and which can wait. Managing your time can make your life easier, less stressful and more meaningful.


Look at your lifestyle

The choices you make about the way you live affect your stress level. Your lifestyle may not cause stress on its own, but it it can prevent your body from recovering from it. Try to find a balance between personal, work and family needs. This is not easy.

Have a sense of purpose in life

Many people find meaning through connections with family, friends, jobs, or volunteer work.

Get enough sleep

Your body recovers from stresses of the day while you are sleeping.

Adopt healthy habits

Eat healthy diet, limit how much alcohol you drink and don't smoke. Staying healthy is your best defense against stress.

Exercise

Even moderate exercise, such as taking a daily walk, can reduce stress.

Get support

Support in your life from family, friends and your community has a big impact on how you experience stress. Having support in your life can help you stay healthy. Support means having the love, trust and advice of others.

Changing your thinking

Stressful events can make you feel bad about yourself. You might start focusing on only the bad and not the good in a situation. That's called negative thinking. It can make you feel afraid, Positive thinking helps you cope with a problem by changing the way you think. How you think affects how you feel.

Problem solving

It helps you identify all aspects of a stressful event, find things you may be able to change and deal with things you can't change.

Assertive communication

It helps you express how you feel in a thoughtful, tactful way. Not being able to talk about your needs and concerns creates stress and can make negative feelings worse.