There’s been a lot said and written about the effects of stress on your body and your lifespan. The more stress you experience during life the more strain your body undergoes, ultimately causing it to age faster and your immune system to weaken. So if stress is bad then what’s the remedy? Thankfully it’s an easy one. Relaxation.
Relaxation can do wonders to counteract the havoc stress can cause on your body. But even more than that, it’s also pretty easy to get. Here we come up with four relaxation methods designed to help you unwind and rejuvenate your healthy and beauty.
Meditation
Meditation is gaining a lot of respect and attention recently thanks to a plethora of scientific studies linking it to health advantages like reducing stress and increasing the effectiveness of your immune system. Easy to do, applications like HeadSpace and celebrity adoption have helped raise its profile even more. At its core it’s simply breathing. But there is also further to explore thanks to varying techniques that take you beyond the basics and into exploring your thoughts and consciousness further.
Gaming
Gaming, both on games systems and online, can really help you blow off steam and reach deep relaxation levels when you’re feeling exacerbated or frustrated by particular aspects of life. Whether you decide to hook up with friends over social media and play old classics or take time to relax over a game of online bingo, the options, in terms of gaming, are endless. A fun way to spend a couple of hours and sometimes more productive than you think!
Exercise
The benefit of exercise have long been touted as excellent stress busting activity that helps in both getting you fit and your mind relaxed. Taking time out from your schedule to move your body, challenge yourself physically and get a sweat on can really help raise your endorphin levels, reducing stress in turn. How you decide to exercise is entirely up to you. Perhaps cardio is more your thing as opposed to group sports. Either way both your body and mind get a much needed break.
Reading
Finding somewhere quiet to camp out, with some peaceful music and a good book are brilliant ways to unwind from the stresses and annoyances of the day. The whole exercise can go even further too depending on what you feed to your brain in terms of literature. Taking time out to lose yourself in a classic novel, learning something from a history or science book or getting positive thanks to inspiring works, all are a whole lot beneficial than a fashion magazine or a newspaper.
When it comes down to it, there are lots of ways to relax and beat stress. Make sure you do one or two of these things a day and you’ll be well set on the road to improving both your life and your beauty.