Explore the beast with two backs: do the nasty, the horizontal Lambada, or the “wild thing” it’s a super technique for stress reduction — when you have sex your body releases all sorts of stress squashing hormones and endorphins perfect for helping you to feel good and relaxed. And don’t get discouraged if you don’t have a partner “alone time” is equally beneficial. So go call your steady girl and “get some” — your body will thank you!
Breathe: you can literally lower your blood pressure by taking a few deep breaths. When things get overwhelming and you feel your body tensing up, try this simple exercise — Check in with yourself by scanning your body — when you find one part or area that is significantly more at ease than the rest, zero in on it and expand that good feeling by using the breath to explore it. You will notice that after only a few long breaths the relaxation with spread to the neighboring area and so on, leaving you feeling reinvigorated, revitalized, and totally at peace.
I know that with these simple tools you are melting all of that pesky stress away as effortlessly as wax drips from a candle.
Ahhhh… it’s good to be you!
Here are some additional dietary tips to crowd stress out of your life.
Top 3 Foods to Relieve Stress:
Greens- Any dark green vegetables pack the body with soothing life energy not to mention a ton of vitamin A, and beta –carotene. According to www.whfoods.com, once inside the body, beta-carotene can be converted into vitamin A, so when you eat greens like kale it's like getting both these beneficial nutrients at once. One cup of kale contains just 36.4 calories, but provides 192.4% of the daily value for vitamin A.
In addition, vitamin A stimulates several immune system activities, possibly by promoting the growth, and preventing the stress-induced shrinkage, of the thymus gland. Vitamin A is known to enhance the function of white blood cells, increase the response of antibodies to antigens, and to have anti-viral activity all the while squashing the release of cortisol a monstrous stress hormone. Final thought – eat your greens!
Naturally raised turkey contains serotonin boosting protein that also inhibits cortisol and encourages the body’s natural ability to produce more of the “feel good hormone.”
Whole Grains– like turkey they encourage the body to produce serotonin which in turn inhibits the stress hormone cortisol.
Eat these stress fighting foods at lunch, take a walk, breathe, get it on with your girl and you will be a Zen master- stress free heck of a happy fella’!
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