LA Marketing On How To Keep Calm

SPRINGDALE, Ark. - Feb. 12, 2014 - PRLog -- LA Marketing, Inc.

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LA Marketing On How To Keep Calm

SPRINGDALE, AR, February 2014 – The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance. Top performers are skilled at managing their emotions in times of stress in order to remain calm and in control.

As the human brain evolved and increased in complexity, we’ve developed the ability to worry which creates frequent experiences of prolonged stress. Besides increasing your risk of heart disease, depression, and obesity, stress decreases your cognitive performance. Fortunately, though, unless a lion is chasing you, the bulk of your stress is subjective and under your control. Top performers have well-honed coping strategies that they employ under stressful circumstances. This lowers their stress levels regardless of what’s happening in their environment, ensuring that the stress they experience is intermittent and not prolonged.

Here are 9 of the best effective strategies that successful people employ when faced with stress:

They Appreciate What They Have. Taking time to contemplate what you’re grateful improves your mood, because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol. People who work daily to cultivate an attitude of gratitude experience improved mood, energy, and physical well-being.

They Avoid Asking “What If?” Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you’ll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.

They Stay Positive. Positive thoughts help make stress intermittent by focusing your brain’s attention onto something that is completely stress-free. You have to give your wandering brain a little help by consciously selecting something positive to think about.

They Disconnect. Given the importance of keeping stress intermittent, it’s easy to see how taking regular time off the grid can help keep your stress under control. When you make yourself available to your work 24/7, you expose yourself to a constant barrage of stressors. Forcing yourself offline and even—gulp!—turning off your phone gives your body a break from a constant source of stress.

They Limit Their Caffeine Intake. Drinking caffeine triggers the release of adrenaline. Adrenaline is the source of the “fight-or-flight” response, a survival mechanism that forces you to stand up and fight or run for the hills when faced with a threat. When caffeine puts your brain and body into this hyper aroused state of stress, your emotions overrun your behavior.

They Sleep. When you sleep, your brain literally recharges, shuffling through the day’s memories and storing or discarding them so that you wake up alert and clear-headed. Your self-control, attention, and memory are all reduced when you don’t get enough sleep. Sleep deprivation raises stress hormone levels on its own, even without a stressor present.

They Reframe Their Perspective. Stress and worry are fueled by our own skewed perception of events. It’s easy to think that unrealistic deadlines, unforgiving bosses, and out-of-control traffic are the reasons we’re so stressed all the time. You can’t control your circumstances, but you can control how you respond to them. So before you spend too much time dwelling on something, take a minute to put the situation in perspective.

They Breathe. The easiest way to make stress intermittent lies in something that you have to do every day: breathing. The practice of being in the moment with your breathing will begin to train your brain to focus solely on the task at hand and get the stress monkey off your back.

They Use Their Support System. It’s tempting, yet entirely ineffective, to attempt tackling everything by yourself. To be calm and productive, you need to recognize your weaknesses and ask for help when you need it. Most of the time, other people can see a solution that you can’t because they are not as emotionally invested in the situation. Asking for help will mitigate your stress and strengthen your relationships with those you rely upon.

For additional information, contact a member of the LA Marketing administration team at press@lamktg.com (mailto:admin@g10global.biz)

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