Reduce the stress of unemployment
Unemployment wrecks havocs on you both seen and unseen. The obvious effects of unemployment on your life are the immediate negative financial impacts. The loss of income causes you to question everything about yourself, the home you live in and even your family. Do you find yourself asking yourself questions like: why was I picked to be laid off and others were able to stay, how am I going to protect my family when I can’t afford health insurance or where can we live? To me, right now, unemployment is like an explosion that keeps going off. First I lose my job and then one by one I’m losing – my life, friends, home, laughter, sleep and self respect.
The build up of stress can not only rip your home apart, but it can exacerbate your current health issues. Stress can make sufferers of diabetes, chronic pain, heart disease, and weight loss/gain control even more difficult to manage and treat. Weight management sounds like something simple and most of us may think that some weight loss from not eating is a good thing. Well, it is and it isn’t. It is because if you are over weight then a few pounds is livable, but if your loosing dress or pants sizes, you may be causing more unhealthy problems. Organs, blood, skin, hair – everything – needs food to live and function. When you deprive your body of food for long periods of time they will work in ‘starvation’ mode and try to hold onto everything to work, whether its good – like milk or bad – like alcohol or too much caffeine.
We found a site called GetFit Boca Raton for free exercise routines you can do at home designed exclusively by top-notch professional trainers. Also, check out eDiets for more food, diet and diaries. Both are free help to keep you at the top of your game while looking for another job.
The Mayo Clinic wrote this article on exercise and stress.
How does exercise reduce stress?
Exercise increases your overall health and your sense of well-being, which puts more pep in your steps every day. But exercise also has some direct stress-busting benefits.
- It pumps up your endorphins. Physical activity helps to bump up the production of your brain’s feel-good neurotransmitters, called endorphins. Although this function is often referred to as a runner’s high, a rousing game of tennis or a nature hike also can contribute to this same feeling.
- It’s meditation in movement. After a fast-paced game of racquetball or several laps in the pool, you’ll often find that you’ve forgotten the day’s dilemmas and irritations and concentrated only on your body’s movements. As you begin to regularly shed your daily tensions through movement and physical activity, you may find that this focus on a single task, and the resulting energy and optimism, can help you remain calm and clear in everything that you do.
- It improves your mood. Regular exercise can increase self-confidence and lower the symptoms associated with mild depression and anxiety. This can ease your stress levels and give you a sense of command over your body and your life.
Go for a walk, at least 20 minutes each day and think of nothing but you and your feet on the pavement – one step at a time. Your body will thank you.
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