Stress Reduction 22

1. Decide to take action.
2. Seriously: decide to take action.
3. The biggest priority and breakthrough is to allow yourself to switch off and relax.
4. And recognise that you can do anything but you can't do everything.
5. Walk more. Without your phone.
6. Switch off all digital interrupts, more.
7. Take breaks. Without your phone.
8. Check your breathing and your posture. The former full and relaxed. The latter upright, balanced, open.
9. Re-create work free evenings.
10. Give yourself permission for work-free weekends.
11. Learn to say no. There are good books and good courses which can teach the skill.
12. Get out into nature. Feel the wind, get wet, enjoy the sun.
13. Exercise is optional, but movement is essential.
14. Sort the issues you need to sort: money, relationships, fatigue.
15. Do it (14) slowly, surely, day by day. Inch by inch. Cm by cm. Until you feel better and healed.
16. Re-discover great novels.
17. Re-discover swimming and cycling.
18. Re-discover true friendship.
19. Cut back, reduce and manage the addictions which fuel stress: TV, alcohol,  the screen...
20. Decide to take action.
21. Seriously: decide to take action.
22. Start now.