11/18/2019
The most effective stress-management technique is to simply avoid stressful situations in the first place. No stress = no overactive stress response = no increase in cortisol levels. Obviously, the goal of avoiding all stressful situations is unrealistic, but with proper planning it may be possible to avoid some — plan effective strategies for dealing with the situations that cause you the most stress.
As an example, one of the things that causes many people stress is sitting in traffic. To avoid that stress, you can plan on staying ahead of the traffic by leaving the house as early as possible in the morning and the office as early as possible in the evening. Of course, there are days you know you’ll be sitting in traffic and you’ll need to have a backup plan. This could be listening to an audio book or podcast. The audio distraction allows you to avoid stress by enabling you to learn something new or lose yourself in a story — not stewing through a time-wasting traffic jam.
Everyone will have a different strategy for avoiding their own personal stressors; the key is to find the plan (and backup plan) that works best for you.
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