A state of relaxation and serenity is achieved when a person completely accepts life as full of tension.

The first thing to overcome the stress of work-place is again being aware. Awareness of the stress and stress causing factors will illuminate the way for calm and peace within and without.

Some techniques that have worked for my clients and I presume will work for you as well are -

Mindfulness
Mindfulness means focusing on one activity at a time. It’s all about approaching life like a child, without passing judgement or projecting what could, would or should be. Practice it by focusing on your immediate surroundings. If you’re outdoors, enjoy the shape and colours of flowers, hear a bird’s call or consider a tree. Look at things in your office; at your desk with total awareness; as if you are looking at them for the first time. Just be with those things.

Visualize & Affirm Yourself Relaxed
Create a detailed mental picture using all your senses, of you being at your favorite vacation spot, a beach, or something that gives you pure joy. This helps to take your mind off your stress, and replaces it with an image that evokes a sense of calm.

Meditate
Anything you do with total awareness is meditation. When you catch yourself thinking about your jobs to do, your relationships, or your lifelong to-do list, simply observe the thoughts and your body sensations at that moment. Every couple of hours do it for few minutes

Breathe Slowly & Deeply
Stress causes tense, fast, shallow breathing, while a state of relaxation causes slow, deep breathing. So to turn tension into relaxation, change the way you breathe.
Take 10 very slow and deep breaths and as you breathe in let you abdomen move out without the chest moving. And as you breathe out let the abdomen move in without the chest moving. To make it easy you may put you right palm on the abdomen and the left on your chest. The duration of exhalation should be double the time taken to inhale.

To Be Continued…