How to Manage Severe Stress and Improve Your Self-Care Routine?

The stress of daily living can be overwhelming sometimes for anyone. Our busy lives demand from us to constantly multitask and get on to the next task, next to do thing. Thus, the wheel of stress keeps us rolling over us.

It is very important to slow down sometimes throughout the week, take a moment, relax and recharge you reserves, to care for yourself. Your health depends on your self-care.

Back pain and stress are almost always inseparable like clouds and rain. If you are stressed you can bet your money on that it will be manifested as pain somewhere in the body, often as a back pain. It is also true in reverse. Physical limitations, pain, and discomfort increase distress and frustration. Stress and pain are products of each other. Massage therapy can be a great way to manage both; back pain and stress.

Massage therapy is a great stress-management discipline, and stress-management is one of the cornerstones of self-care that promotes health and wellbeing.

Self-Care Strategies

Self-care refers to a specific strategic routine and time set a side weekly to care for one’s body and mind. Regularly practiced self-care activities produce physical and mental wellbeing. You can improve your overall health and wellbeing by engaging in self-care activities as yoga, meditation, exercise, healthy dieting, regular massage therapy, chiropractic care, acupuncture and more.

However, a big part of a self-care routine is also setting aside time to relax. You’d be surprised how many people find relaxing a very difficult task. As adults we are conditioned to be in a high alert mental/emotional states, meaning constantly stressing.

Many people, certainly many of my clients find easiest way to relax by getting massages tailored to their specific needs.

Stress-Management and Self-Care Techniques

Physical Activity

Staying active keeps the blood flowing, energizes us and helps to keep the body healthy. Sometimes this involves exercise or sports, or biking, dancing and hiking in the nature. Muscular activity helps to relieve tension from the muscles and triggers the brain to produce opioid like chemical, aka natural feel-good hormones. You can go a step further like athletes and couple physical activity with massage therapy. This will improve post exercise muscular recovery and relaxation.

Emotional Regulation

 In reality, in its core stress-management is emotional regulation. We can regulate our emotions by controlling negative emotions like fear, worry, anger which are cause of stress. Often, massages are an excellent way to relieve the initial severe stress to get you started.

A relaxed body produces a relaxed mind, it is true in reverse as well. And a relaxed mind is crucial for mental and emotional wellbeing.

Relaxation

Take it easy. Your body needs rest, and so does your mind. Remember that relaxation is a form of self-care. Sometimes it’s simply doing nothing. Other times it’s taking your mind off of triggers and stressors. Massage therapy is the surest, fastest way to relaxation. Massage produces relaxation through relaxing your body, it eases tension. It is a very common practice for people to get a massage on weekly, or a monthly basis.

Self-Care Through Massage Therapy

Here’s what physical activity, emotion regulation, and relaxation have in common: all three are related by the principle of wellbeing. Physical activity affects emotions, and our emotions affect perceived relaxation. It’s a cycle. 

Massage therapy relax your body, relieve your pain and refresh your mind. You may notice stress almost instantly leaving your body and your muscle tension starts to melt. Doesn’t this sound good? It actually feels better.

Take regular steps to improve your health through self-care and stress-management. Schedule your massage session today and start enjoining the benefits of healthy living.

Thanks for reading,

Hayk