1051: Classic ACP 9 Ways You Can Reduce Your Stress
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses nine practical ways to reduce stress. These methods largely revolve around decluttering one's life and increasing the space one has around themselves both physically and mentally. Listen in for the specific tips today!
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All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others.
–Sharon Salzberg
Chapters
0:00 Welcome Back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast
3:54 The Importance of Life Balance
5:57 Resolving Legal, Tax, and Financial Problems
7:11 Automating Bills and Paperwork
8:38 Impact of Cleaning on Stress Levels
9:58 The Value of Volunteer Work Evaluation
10:42 Managing Relationships for Stress Reduction
11:14 Delegating Daily Tasks for Relaxation
12:33 Benefits of Decluttering for Mental Health
16:37 Honesty in Fulfilling Promises
17:12 Evaluating Work Environment for Well-being
Summary
In this episode of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, Gina Ryan explores nine different ways to reduce stress and bring peace and calm back to our lives. She emphasizes the importance of responding to stress in a healthy manner and provides practical tips for making lasting changes to eliminate stress. Gina suggests focusing on making changes in our outer world to lighten our stress load, especially amidst the current world challenges.
She encourages listeners to evaluate their lives using a pie chart divided into sections such as health, money, relationships, and environment, highlighting the importance of harmony rather than seeking perfect balance in all areas. Gina stresses the significance of accepting changes we cannot control, particularly in the face of the uncertainties brought by events like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Throughout the episode, Gina offers practical advice, such as resolving legal or financial issues promptly, automating bill payments, delegating tasks efficiently, and decluttering unnecessary items to reduce stress. She also recommends cutting out volunteer work that doesn't serve one's well-being, decreasing time spent with stressful individuals, asking for help with errands, and reevaluating work situations to determine if they bring more negativity than positivity. Gina concludes by quoting Sharon Salzberg and emphasizes the importance of seeking happiness while reducing suffering by making intentional choices.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches |
| 0:09.3 | Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:22.0 | Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. I'm your host and coach Gina Ryan, |
| 0:30.4 | and I am so happy to be with you again today as together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its natural peace and calm. |
| 0:43.0 | In today's episode, I'm wanting to share with you nine different ways that you can reduce your stress. |
| 0:51.0 | We talked about the importance of responding to our stress in a |
| 0:57.3 | healthy way and so I want to give you guys you know some ideas of where you can actually start to make some changes that maybe |
| 1:07.2 | you can eliminate some stress that will for the long term really give you a break because you won't have it popping up over and over again, |
| 1:17.6 | needing to use those little band-aids that don't really do anything but give you maybe a 10 minute or a two day |
| 1:24.5 | breather but it pops back up again. Let's look at some ways that we can really |
| 1:28.0 | reduce our stress. You know we really do have the power to reduce our stress in many different ways and |
| 1:36.5 | so today I'm focusing not so much on your thinking and you're responding but more about your outer world and |
| 1:45.8 | where you might be able to make changes to lighten your stress load from your |
| 1:50.6 | environment from your world. So many new and extra demands on our schedules with the |
| 1:58.6 | current changes in the world right now. It's been a interesting year 2020 in so many different ways. |
| 2:05.8 | And changes can be very stressful for people and especially when there's a lot of negativity |
| 2:14.0 | a lot of things related to our health |
| 2:17.0 | that people are being concerned about |
| 2:19.0 | and changes in our lives that we never thought we were going to have to make. And here we are all doing it and all changing at the same time. |
| 2:30.0 | And not only can we decide what we can change up in our own world to keep us on balance, |
| 2:39.0 | but we can learn to actually respond in a way that like we talked about in the last episode where if something |
| 2:48.2 | is outside your circle of influence you have to decide to let it go. You have to learn to be able to get more acceptance so you are not |
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