Hello and welcome to today's episode of the Absolute Mind podcast, Becoming Mentally Healthy.

Now before we go into the podcast, I quickly want to remind you all about the interactive group that's up on Facebook.

It's Absolute Minds Becoming Mentally Healthy Group.

And in there, there are over 400 people now who are we're all interacting

with each other talking about ways in which you can become more mentally healthy this is focusing

on reducing stress it focuses on tips and techniques that allow you to have structure, routine, responsibility, accountability,

every little bit that you need to become mentally healthy is in that group. So be sure if you

haven't already to head on over to the group and get yourself joined up. I go live on there

almost daily and I talk about things and topics that I have,

I'm interested in or that I've picked up on through the week. So please do go and take a look,

guys, and I will see you there. Okay, so on to today's podcast, which is all about reducing stress levels and how we can become a calmer person.

We all know that stress has a big impact on our mental health and our abilities to deal and function and focus.

Too much stress can create anxiety. So it's imperative that we know simple ways

in which we can reduce our stress levels. Now I remember as, I must have been a teen, maybe mid to late

teens, early 20s. I remember in those years of my life being,

I'd class myself as a little bit of a stress head, believe it or not. I would get stressed at

the smallest of things. And I think it was just an element of growing up and understanding my own emotions and dealing with things

and maybe not being equipped to deal with life's stresses at that time. And gradually over time,

I have learned to become calmer, more relaxed and to deal with things in a much better way that I ever did before.

You know, my husband very often says that I may as well be horizontal because nothing really

gets to me to a level where it impacts my ability to function and focus.

We all need elements of stress. We need to have some parts of stress within our

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