Maintain Your Mental Health During The Quarantine

The outbreak of COVID-19 disease 2019 may be very stressful for most of us. Fear and anxiety about a disease can be overwhelming. Not only that but it can cause strong emotions in adults and children. Coping with stress will make you, the people you care about, and your community stronger but how to do it? Not only taking care of yourself but also your friends, and your family can help you cope with stress.

Here are some of the points about what to do to deal with any mental health problems we might have or going to have.

Top 10 Emergency Stress – Stoppers

Do you feel like stress is stopping you from being 100% happy and be able to fully enjoy every day?

We all have stress — at work, at home, when we are driving. Sometimes we can feel especially stressed because of a bad interaction with someone, too much work, or everyday hassles like stuck in the queue, traffic or simply being late for a meeting or work.

Negative stress can keep you from feeling and performing your best — mentally, physically and emotionally. But we have stress on daily bases and no one’s life is completely stress-free. That is why it is so important to know how to manage the stress and leave it forever.

 

How to Keep Your Brain Healthy

A word of caution: You can adopt all the right habits and still have problems with the memory or get disease such as Alzheimer’s. Scientists don’t know if lifestyle changes can keep you from getting it  but these habits are good for brain and body. Try it to keep mind and body in healthy balance.

Breath Your Stress Out – Breathing Techniques

There are many relaxation techniques to choose from. Yet, many require longer time and space to practice, which is not always available to us in the moment of stress. So what to do fast, now and what will take the stress away? Breath it out!

No one can avoid all stress, but you can counteract its detrimental effects by learning how to produce the relaxation response, a state of deep rest that is the polar opposite of the stress response. The relaxation response puts the brakes on stress and brings your body and mind back into a state of equilibrium.
When the relaxation response is activated, your:
  • heart rate slows down
  • breathing becomes slower and deeper
  • blood pressure stabilizes
  • muscles relax
  • blood flow to the brain increases
Thanks to practicing breathing you have access to all the above at any moment, right when you needed because no special clothes or space is required. To help you choose which what works for you, below is the list of 3 breathing techniques worth trying: