7 Easy Ways to Relieve Stress and Anxiety at Home Even If Your Heart Is Troubled

Stress and anxiety come to you when you allow yourself to worry over situations so much that you can no longer get control of your thoughts about them. There are times when you decide to leave your house and go out to avoid stress and anxiety, but they often attack and overwhelm you, especially when you are at home alone. So you decide to go out to even an unknown or unplanned destination to stay away from the fast heartbeat and bad feelings that could result from stress and anxiety.

However, the truth is that you will still return home after some time, only to find yourself back where you were running from, which was the reason you initially decided to leave your house in the first place.

But what if I told you that there are better, easier and natural ways to stop stress and anxiety that will not require you to continue running away from yourself or your house in search of a place that could give you a temporary distraction and healing. You can get a permanent natural healing. In this blog post, I will open your eyes and expose you to the easy and natural things you can start doing today to stay entirely away from stress and anxiety. So let’s get started.

1. Stop Taking Things Too Seriously

Some situations might indeed be perceived as more severe than others, but what still matters is how you choose to perceive them; it is all up to you to determine whether you want to take them too seriously or not. The thing is that it all boils down to your attitude towards this situation. If you take them too seriously, then they will become too serious. However, suppose you decide to pay less attention to them while attending to the necessary steps to fix the situation. In that case, you will see that it is not as serious as it initially appears.

If you manage to reduce the amount of attention and seriousness which you attach to this situation, you will be far away from being attacked by anxiety and depression. Taking it too seriously will not improve the conditioning, but being overly serious about it and taking it to heart excessively can exacerbate the situation.

2. Stop Overthinking Everything

Some people are naturally overthinkers. And these are the people who always go through stress and anxiety, which often leads them to depression. They can easily get provoked at every little thing. Thinking is good, but everthinking can affect your mental health in different ways.

It leads you to restlessness. There are times when you lie down on your bed to sleep or take a rest, but you find out that you cannot have this rest. Why? Because you are restless. Why are you restless? You don’t even know. This is a result of overthinking. When you overthink, you put your heart and brain under severe stress that can break you down mentally.

You will find that your heart keeps beating too fast; you will hardly have a single rest because you will always be restless. Even when you go to bed to sleep at night, what happens is that you will fall asleep first at that first natural sleeping time when it comes to you with force. However, what happens is that you will still wake up in the middle of the night and continue thinking, because your heart is not at rest.

3. Forgive those who hurt you

Let me be very honest with you: sometimes it can be incredibly hard to forgive and let go. Yes, I’m not going to start telling you to learn to forgive and let go without first accepting the fact that one of the most challenging things to do in life is forgiveness. Even though we now understand that forgiveness is necessary for healing and peace of mind, there is a way someone will offend you, you will intentionally prefer to remain in pain and misery rather than forgive that person who has hurt and put you through that miserable condition.

Now, the worst part of it is that some people will intentionally hurt you while hoping and believing that you will surely forgive them when the time comes, because they know that you will still need to forgive them for you to be able to heal.

I am saying all this to help you understand that I know it can be challenging to forgive, especially when you have been hurt so badly. But here I am again to tell you the truth: you still have to let go and forgive, regardless. This is for your good and well-being, not for the one who has offended you. Do not worry, they will still receive their reward in complete dosage.

4. Create Enough Time For Sleep

Now, you don’t have to remind me of it, I already know that you can hardly have enough good sleep when you are going through stress and anxiety, I already know that you will continue to struggle with having a good sleep when you struggle with overthinking. But what if I told you that all these still boil down to you learning how to stop taking things too seriously?

As I said earlier, overthinking it will not solve the problem; rather, it will complicate it and make it worse than it is. The only way to sleep easily when you put your head on your pillow is by taking things easy and with a calm attitude. You don’t have to be sluggish about it. But you still approach it with a quiet mind. This will help you avoid insomnia and get a good night’s sleep, which in turn will help alleviate stress and anxiety.

5. Accept The Fact That There Are Things You Can Not Change

Stress and anxiety get worse when you fail to acknowledge the fact that there are situations you cannot change, though that does not mean that they are going to remain permanent; the truth is that they will still change for the better, since no condition is permanent. But you have to be patient and allow the change to happen at its own time, rather than trying to force the change on your terms and time; it can only lead you to a mental breakdown.

Do the best you can and let things unfold naturally. Your extra effort cannot change anything; it can only lead to more problems and confusion. Relax your mind and cultivate the ‘let it be’ mindset. You will see that your heart will begin to find peace again, and you will no longer want to run away from your house in search of temporal peace of mind.

6. Exercise every day

In case you haven’t noticed, exercise helps you breathe by expanding your lungs and increasing oxygen flow to your brain. This allows your brain to stay free from anxiety, stress and deprivation. When you have a healthy brain, it means that every other part of your body will be healthy. Sometimes, daily and regular exercise can be overwhelming, especially if you’re not used to it.

However, the best approach is to start small, take it one step at a time, and then continue to improve over time. You don’t have to go all the way to the stadium or football pitch. You can start it right there from your house. It could be an early morning push-up or sit-up right there in your one-bedroom apartment.

7. Practice And Get Used To Breathing

Lack of oxygen in your brain can also cause stress and anxiety. Sometimes, you notice that you are feeling depressed for a reason you don’t even know. When this happens to you, check your breath. Take a deep breath for at least 5 minutes every day and see how it will sharpen your brain and reduce your worries.

Sometimes, when you wake up in the middle of the night, you’re so tired that you struggle to go back to sleep again. You likely struggled to breathe while sleeping. And then, because you could not breathe very well at that time, you find yourself struggling in your sleep, struggling to breathe in some air. As this struggle continues, you will likely wake up and start working again, only to fall back asleep once more.

Summary

Dear friend, always remember that you did not bring yourself into this world. All you know is that your parents went through the biological process that got you into this world. But there is a Supreme Being that made it happen. There is a creator who created both you and your parents, who brought you into this life by biological means.

So why are you worrying yourself? Why are you trying to overthink everything, as if you have the power to change the hands of the clock? You were not given the power and authority to do all these, but you were given the power to do your part and leave the rest to your Creator. So stop allowing stress and anxiety to control your life. Decide today not to worry so much again, and see your life taking a different shape in a different dimension.