Mental Stress Reduction for Men in the Workplace

     Violent Stress Reduction

"Carry a small leather ball with you and secretly squeeze it when you're depressed." A U.S. service website specializing in white-collar male troubleshooting suggests. Carry a tennis ball, a small rubber ball or something else, encountered too much pressure when you need to vent secretly squeeze a squeeze, pinch a pinch, obviously more than pinching the neck of a colleague, hysterically tearing up the waste paper under the dazzled, pounding the table to be much better.

     Food to reduce stress

A recent medical study found that certain foods can be very effective in reducing stress. For example, fish oil, which contains DHA, salmon, white tuna, black tuna, and mackerel are the main sources. In addition, selenium is also effective in reducing stress; tuna, Brazilian chestnuts and garlic are all rich in selenium. B2, B5 and B6 in the vitamin B family are also good stress reducers and can be supplemented by eating more grains.

Between work, you can have a cup of iced coffee, can be very soothing; if too much socializing, there is no way to plan their diet, then carry vitamin tablets or fish oil pills and other nutrients. However, experts point out that by food or vitamins to reduce stress, must be persistent, every day to form a habit, after 1 month can slowly see the results.

     Writing to reduce stress

"Write your troubles out." The American Psychological Association doubly respected writing to reduce stress this way, what is the content of the writing? Your stress experience, your physical, psychological all the troubles. As early as 1988, the United States has some psychologists have done tests, these tests show a truth: writing is a significant effect of stress reduction, as long as a pen and a piece of paper to go wherever you can implement. In the United States, not only the hospital doctor to encourage patients to keep a bed diary, even some bookstores have begun to sell blank medical records journal, and even special books and magazines to guide patients how to operate.

     Decompression at work

Many managers in high positions, often have to do everything themselves, everything must be personally check. Can a person's energy is very limited, all aspects of the enterprise can not be taken into account, so the experts pointed out that the site, trust subordinates and colleagues, appropriate delegation of authority is to avoid "worry into a disease" of the right way. Of course, before that, business leaders must be well prepared: spend some time to carefully train their subordinates, so that they can also understand your way of doing business - in fact, in the process, you also dig out the future leader.

How do those ordinary white-collar workers, or those who are the boss of one person and have no one to share the workload, cope with the many tasks piling up in front of them to be accomplished? A friend who does media publishing introduced his decompression method: the work must be properly organized, you can list an electronic statement, updated every day, which is to receive the work, which is in progress, which must be immediately sent to the hands of the customer things ...... at a glance.

     Sleep to reduce stress

With high energy to resist the onslaught of stress, sleep is an important guarantee. Experts from the American Psychological Association give the following tips:

If external noise makes it difficult for you to sleep, then create some artificial "white noise", such as letting the TV set has been turned on quietly, over the annoying noise.

Eat a small amount of small snacks before going to bed, only a little bit is not fat, so that the night will not wake up because of hunger. Foods such as tuna, turkey essence, bananas, hot milk, and herbal teas can be hypnotizing. Foods that are high in fat and spicy can keep you awake during digestion.