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3 One-minute Strategies to Manage Your Stress
It’s 8 pm you bring your child to bed and are so tired that you either fall asleep with them or seconds later on the couch.
Another normal day — with endless demands and tasks.
You are ‘on’ 24/7.
I’m speaking from experience.
Without noticing your body has been in fight or flight mode almost the whole day.
No wonder you are exhausted.
Fight or flight mode is a genius invention by nature, it helps to mobilize lots of energy when needed to survive — like running away from a tiger.
Cortisol and adrenalin kick in — we run and make it. Yeah!
While running away from the tiger our body uses up the mobilized energy and our stress hormones go back down.
Being stressed about chaos at home, work, or to-do lists is not using up the mobilized energy in your body. Stress hormones cortisol and adrenalin stay longer than wanted.
Research says if we live like this, we have a 43% increased risk of premature death.
We don’t want that!
Here are 3 life-savers you can do in one minute every time your stress levels go up.
