How To Discover The Secret To Relaxing During Stressful Times

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How To Discover The Secret To Relaxing During Stressful Times

Robert Pino (Director, Robert Pino Center for Growth) gives expert video advice on: What is the secret to relaxing during stressful times?

What is the secret to relaxing during stressful times?

The way to de-stress when you're panicky or you stack one activity on top of another activity, another activity, another activity, is to say to yourself, “Ok. Stop it! Stop it!” Then, talk to yourself in a more proactive, slow way. Like, "hmmm." Make that sound to decompress, because many people talk to themselves in a way that makes them stressful. That's the internal dialogue that you have in your head; the internal little voice that keeps on giving you all kinds of commands that you have to do stuff, which is not entirely true. You can just ‘be' for a moment. Once you create that stop, then you can listen to yourself in a different way. You relax your voice. You speak slower, and therefore you disrupt the panicky thought patterns that you have in your head.