Overcome Stressful Situations

Sometimes life can be so hectic and out of control that all we have are memories of stress. During those times, you need to boldly face and overcome these stressful moments. Here are some tips:

Steps

 * 1) Think of life as a coin. Situations that you come across in your life always have two sides to it. One side is negative; the other side is positive. The coin remains the same, regardless of which side you look at. The choice is have is simple: Do you choose to flip and see the positive side or the negative side? Which side you see is entirely your choice.[[Image:Face and Overcome Stressful Situations Easily Step 1.jpg|center]]
 * 2) Understand when you get stressed. If you are sick, but do not know what is wrong, then you do not know what medicine to take, right? Similarly if you you cannot understand which situations cause you to lose your cool, you will not be able to avoid or correct your actions for them. Understand those situations. It may be something as simple as a difficult conversation with your parents.[[Image:Face and Overcome Stressful Situations Easily Step 2.jpg|center]]
 * 3) Observe how your mind is reacting to the situation and observe yourself. For example, lets say you asked your dad for some money and he didn’t give you even a penny. Its not like you just go "heat level 5 angry" at that instant. It takes time, not much, but it takes about 5-10 seconds minimum.The stuff that’s inside your head in that time determines whether you are gonna get in a fight or you are gonna be ice cool about it. If you can be calm for that 5-10 seconds, you just saved a spiral of emotional depression.[[Image:Face and Overcome Stressful Situations Easily Step 3.jpg|center]]
 * 4) Do the positive actions yourself. Once we go mad, it's hard to control our emotions. If you want to stay calm and relaxed, you have to learn to have control over your emotions. Mastering habits like meditation, yoga, regular exercise, and good conduct with people etc for some time will give you control over emotions.[[Image:Face and Overcome Stressful Situations Easily Step 4.jpg|center]]
 * 5) Flip your attitudes and behaviors around. The trick of flipping is to "Think positive". If the cause of your anger is a person, think positively about him/her. More effectively, think about u guys together, if the source is just a situation, think about its positive aspects. Don’t worry if you can't find any. There is always room for errors.[[Image:Face and Overcome Stressful Situations Easily Step 5.jpg|center]]
 * 6) Take a logical approach to the problem at hand. If you are that person who sees everything in red on getting angry, then you'd probably find flipping hard to follow. Freeze your present situation, forget about your source, and forget the situation. Imagine the outcome of your reply, imagine how they will feel, imagine how you would feel after sometime about that, and understand that you can either hurt someone or just let it go. Most importantly, Imagine you responding in any alternate way or maybe just by plain silence. That you should say to make the situation totally under control imagine what would be their response/ what the situation will be with your "alternative path". If you find that's better, go for the alternative one, no matter if its gonna work or not, you had just controlled your emotion. And surely, it will make a difference. This might seem to be a long process to be done under 10 seconds but actually, it barely takes 5 seconds or less. "Thoughts travel faster than light".[[Image:Face and Overcome Stressful Situations Easily Step 6.jpg|center]]

Tips

 * Try a small 5 minute meditation before going to bed, not one in which you hold your breath and count to some random number and say,"gee, that feels nice, i feel sleepy" but the one in which you just close your eyes, breath normally and express your gratitude for all the nice things that had occurred to you the whole day ,it does wonders.
 * Fighting with parents is something really common. Don't worry if you had to indulge in a really big fight with them, you can always apologize and be back. That doesn't mean you should ALWAYS try that.
 * Forgiving someone who had offended you is something that will bring you a lot of peace and calm.
 * If you want to be happy, make others happy. Treat your friends and others the way you wanna them to treat you. That solves a tons of stressful situations right there.
 * Think/visualize yourself being calm and relaxed.If you think about stress, you are going to get a truckload of it.

Warnings

 * Words, be gentle with them . You don't really need a knife to stab someone.
 * Don't think of the past. It's already done.
 * Don't fake. It sucks. Why? Because it is FAKE.

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