These 3 strategies for relieving stress are quick, interesting and some may even say weird ways to combat stress right at your desk.
1. Drink your tea
How drinking tea can help you destress? This one works for a few reasons. First, it gets you away from the task at hand, because you must get up to prepare that delicious cap of tea, and that disrupts the cycle of stress and tension and offers you a short break.
Second, there is a great variety of herbal teas and some of them are great stress reducers like for example chamomile tea.
Third, experts agree that holding a hot drink in your hands can make you feel warmer toward those around you, which is especially helpful if they are the persons which are stressing you the most.
2. Watch cartoons
Interesting enough it has been proven that watching cartoons can successfully decrease stress levels. It can “teleport you” in your childhood at the time when you didn’t even know what stress means.
And it can relax you and make you laugh. Laughter is great, it helps you get more oxygen, shuts down your stress response, and unmistakably elevates you mood.
3. Get a furry pet
Puppy or kitty you get to pick! Owning a pet can lower your blood pressure, decrease stress but did you know that watching cat videos on the Internet can improve your productivity as well? Scientists are claiming that any engagement with an animal, even if it’s just looking at pictures of puppies or kitties, can reduce stress.