This week is International Stress Awareness Week.
Here at RMC, we want to raise stress awareness! Stress can effect
Maintaining a good work-life balance is essential for managing stress. If you are dealing with work-related pressures that are left unaddressed, they may affect other areas of your life.
Here are some helpful tips you can put into practice to help manage your mental health, and relationship to work and stress:
1. Prioritise Sleep
Sleep is so important for the body’s various healing processes, and it is imperative for the brain’s ability to function. Mental health concerns and emotional issues are strongly linked to poor sleep quality and sleeping disorders. Lack of quality sleep lessens your ability to regulate emotions and can produce feelings of stress. A few hours before bed, take the time to wind down and limit looking at screens.
2. Meditation
It may seem cliché, but meditation strengthens the body and mind’s ability to manage stress responses. When you meditate, the body is restored to a point of calm, pulling you out of a fight-or-flight state. A ten-minute meditation in the morning will help you enter a workday without any added tension and a clearer mindset.
3. Set Boundaries
A lack of professional boundaries can be particularly damaging to your relationship with your workplace and co-workers, which can exacerbate your levels of stress. If your boundaries are unclear it can lead to your time being taken advantage of, or becoming involved in personal issues that should not affect you, resulting in your personal time becoming blurred. Learn to set expectations and become comfortable with saying no!
4. Stay Organised
Although organisation may come more naturally to some, it is helpful to try and practice managing your time so that you avoid becoming overwhelmed. Write a list of all your tasks at the beginning of the day and tick off everything you finish. This will break down your working day to make it seem more manageable, and since you can visualise your progress you will feel a sense of accomplishment.
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Resources:
https://isma.org.uk/isma-international-stress-awareness-week
https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/feelings-and-symptoms/stress/
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/stress/what-is-stress/
https://isma.org.uk/isma-international-stress-awareness-week
