Nine tips to ease stress at work

Make health a priority in your life and avoid stress at work

Stress at work: how to avoid

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Rush, excessive activities, extensive workload, charges, deadlines. These are some words that describe causes for the symptoms of stress at work. Not to mention the housework, responsibilities with the children and other daily activities that add to the workers' worries and further increase the stress at work .

Methods created to extract greater productivity from work often end up impacting the employee's health in a negative way, as stress acts on a person's psychological aspect through anxiety, tension and impatience. Depending on the level of work stress achieved, this person may develop muscle tensions and psychosomatic illnesses (see more here).

We've selected some tips to help you deal with stress at work - they won't solve your problems, but they can ease them and help you with your daily rush. Discover some ways to reduce stress at work:

  1. Drink tea - all kinds of real tea from the plant camellia, contain a large amount of the amino acid L-theanina (green tea), which is responsible for a brief relaxation after drinking the tea. This amino acid also helps the immune system's T cells or gamma/delta T lymphocytes;
  2. Walk every day - physical and aerobic exercise is of the utmost importance for life. It boosts people's mood and even encourages the body to feel good.
  3. Get more sun - sunbathing is also very important because it allows the body to synthesize vitamin D, helps regulate our circadian rhythms and melatonin production. Therefore, set aside a period of time in your day to walk in the street, preferably in parks or squares;
  4. Eat more soup – according to Chinese medicine, eating too many cold or raw foods during the winter can make your body work hard to digest them – also true for the chill of air conditioning on summer days. Therefore, the ideal is to drink soup, which has a smooth digestion, facilitating the absorption of nutrients by the body. Include ginger, garlic, carrots, sweet potatoes or pumpkin to help your immune system;
  5. Turn on the parasympathetic nervous system – activate your parasympathetic nervous system and "communicate" to your body that it's time to rest and digest by practicing yoga, Tai Chi Chuan and meditation. These practices will help you boost your immune system and regulate your stress response. Meditation, for example, allows your mind and body to "reset” in everyday life.
  6. When you get sick, rest - when your immune system is down and you get sick, it means your body needs to rest, so don't try to force yourself to go to work anyway. This will only make your symptoms of stress at work worse. Even though it is difficult to leave work at some important moments, try to stay at home and rest as much as possible. Put your health first in life! You will return to work much more relaxed.
  7. Take short breaks throughout the day - get up to go to the bathroom or fill your water bottle, walk around or listen to music. This will help create a relaxed time in your day, making it easier to get back to work without increasing your stress level at work.
  8. Work out gymnastics - throughout the day, try doing small stretches to reduce the strain on your body. If you work in a sitting position, lifting and stretching your legs helps improve circulation, as does pulling your arms forward or backward. For those who work standing up, it is interesting to do exercises for the lower back (like lying down and bringing the knees closer to the belly) or even stretching the legs pulling them up one at a time.
  9. Require your company to apply ergonomics principles in the workplace - if you're the business owner, don't forget about ergonomics . Ergonomics is related to factors such as comfort, safety and efficiency, which are directly linked to performance in the work environment and well-being. After all, the simple fact of not having an appropriate chair for the worker's size increases the stress at work a lot.


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