Finding yourself unable to solve a problem?

Feeling stuck in your own mental loop?

Talk it out.

Discussing your problems with a trusted friend can help clear your mind of confusion so you can concentrate on problem solving.

This is the most recent installment in an ongoing series elaborating on 52 proven stress relievers identified by researchers at Texas Woman’s University.

When the stress of having to get a job done gets in the way of getting the job done, diversion - a voluntary change in activity and/or environment - may be just what you need.

Distract yourself.

Take a time out.

Redirect your focus, and then bring it back.

You’ll find yourself more on task and better able to concentrate on the job at hand.

This is the most recent installment in an ongoing series elaborating on 52 proven stress relievers identified by researchers at Texas Woman’s University.

Innoculate yourself against a feared event.

Anticipating a frightening activity?

Feeling a lot of fear?

Preempt the stress.

If, for example, you feel anxiety when speaking in public, address the feeling and change it around. Before speaking in public, go over every part of the experience in your mind.

Imagine what you’ll wear, what the audience will look like, how you’ll present your talk, what the questions will be and how you’ll answer them.

Visualize the experience the way you would have it be.

When the time comes to make the actual presentation, it will be “old hat” and much of your anxiety will have abated.

This is the most recent installment in an ongoing series elaborating on 52 proven stress relievers identified by researchers at Texas Woman’s University.

Feeling tied up in knots with no way out?

Try the following yoga technique whenever you feel the need to relax:

Inhale deeply through your nose to the count of eight.

Then, with lips puckered, exhale very slowly through your mouth to the count of 16, or for as long as you can.

Concentrate on the long sighing sound and feel the tension dissolve.

Repeat 10 times.

This is the most recent installment in an ongoing series elaborating on 52 proven stress relievers identified by researchers at Texas Woman’s University.