Stress Tips for Women
- Get enough sleep at night.
- Don’t skip meals. Have three square meals a day and two snacks.
- Exercise regularly and at appropriate intensity levels for your gender.
- Practice meditation or deep-breathing exercises for at least ten minutes a day.
- Make time for yourself. Take a relaxing aromatherapy bath; listen to music; take a walk in a beautiful setting; do some gardening; buy yourself roses.
- Try to be conscious of your needs and don’t always put yourself last.
Stress Tips for Men
- Get enough sleep at night.
- Don’t skip meals. Have three square meals a day and two snacks.
- Exercise regularly and at appropriate intensity levels for your gender.
- Take up a recreational sport to help alleviate competitional stresses in the workplace.
- Do yoga to help dissipate the effects of continual muscle contraction. Men tend to have greater continual contraction than women of the fight-or-flight muscles and they need to elongate them.
- earn to walk through your fears. For example, take a public speaking course or a self-esteem workshop.