Stress Management And Stretching

The Office

Yeah, it sure is the biggest source for stress, next to home. But while at home most people will find it easy to combat stress, the office provides only a limited instance wherein you can disperse stress. You can’t just shout your lungs out, and surely you can’t just bash and throw things at random just to settle your nerves. Some offices though on some tougher conditions have facilities for these shouting and throwing of cutleries. I have seen one office environment, a customer call center where employees can throw things like inexpensive dishes just to relieve stress out. But if such facility is unavailable to you, and you know you’re due to stress, then you better learn about stress management and the stretching techniques that will help loosen those knots out.

Frankly, how much room and time do you need to do a couple of minutes stretching? And what it does is enable your blood flow more freely, loosen up those tired and knotted muscles and take away your thoughts from work for the moment. It may sound so ordinary but it does help ease stress out of your system. Here are some stress management and the stretching techniques you can practice:

Pain is sometimes a contributing factor for stress in a workplace. Ever got the overwhelming feeling that you have myriad things to do and don’t have sufficient time. Sometimes, when you get that depressing feeling, its always accompanied by back pains, lower back pains or stiff neck. Stress management and stretching plays a complimenting duo: easing out those tired muscles and knuckling up those joints, thus allowing blood to regulate freely, while also taking your mind away from work. Back muscle and flexibility exercises are always good stress management and stretching since they help maintain the neutral spine position. This is a Trunk Rotation Exercise, and it works best if you do it with mind relaxation. If you know some Tai Chi it could help greatly.

To start, find some pole you can sling over your shoulders, preferably some length of pole 2 meters long. Find something that’s smooth and round and a bit heavy; an ideal pole is a billiard cue since they are also pretty to have in the office. Sling the cue over your shoulders and arms and the nape of your neck. Now, stand up straight and slowly swing the pole left and right in a semi-circular motion. Remember, you should not overextend your lateral swings as can cause hernia. While doing this, close your eyes and feel (or pretend) there’s a trickle of water trickling down the nape of your neck. Do this one until you feel relaxed. However, do not extend this to become a full fledged exercise.