Additional Stress Strategies
When to Try Other Strategies
Obviously, breathing exercises can’t solve the world’s problems, and other stress relief strategies need to be used in certain situations. Breathing exercises are excellent for reversing your stress response and reducing the stress that you’re feeling in your body right now, but they can’t prevent future stressors from occurring. Practiced regularly, however, they may make you less reactive to stressful situations you may encounter.
If you find yourself experiencing the same stressors repeatedly, breathing exercises can help you respond to the stressors in a more relaxed way, but proactive strategies that change your lifestyle to eliminate some of the stressors may also be a good idea. For example, changing conditions at your job to prevent work stress, or developing communication skills to combat relationship stress , or by improving your financial fitness to reduce financial stress, may be more effective than just using breathing exercises when you experience daily stress from these situations.
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