Combat Christmas stress and protect your heart
The Good night and Christmas day are days of tranquility in family, days to live together with the most loved ones. However, the previous days are usually a real challenge for the nerves of people. Shopping, miscellaneous responsibilities, traffic jams, long lines at the supermarket. An authentic stress that can have an impact on health and be transmitted to the rest of the home.
Do not get carried away by this stress that will do nothing but prevent you from enjoying these dates as they deserve. Health is the most important, both physically and mentally and therefore from the Spanish Heart Foundation There are a series of tips to avoid nerves these days, help not only applicable to the elderly, also to minors who are sometimes caught in this stress.
Anti-stress tips
From the Spanish Heart Foundation suggest the following tips against Christmas stress:
- Sleep the necessary hours. The body does not understand Christmas, needs to rest to function properly.
- Eat balanced. Christmas is synonymous with excess, but do not overdo it. It is one thing to satisfy the nutritional and energy needs of your body, and even a little whim. But you do not have to make it a routine of these dates.
- Make a list of what should be done. Establish priorities to comply with the basics, in this way if something is left undone will not generate stress because something important has not been done.
- Share responsibilities. Teamwork helps to meet the objectives before. Carrying responsibilities is synonymous with stress, ask your partner to make a purchase, entrust the children tasks they can fulfill. Delivering these tasks is a great help.
- Listen to the signals of your body. It is not good to exceed the limits, nothing is more important than health. If the body says enough, taking a break and enjoying a bit of family is not a bad idea.
- Do not forget about the exercise. Physical activity helps fight stress and feel much better. Although it is difficult these days, a small family walk to walk the dog or make purchases in the neighborhood are good ideas for not losing this rhythm of exercise
- Relaxation exercises. There are times of the day when responsibilities can no longer be fulfilled, in these situations you can take advantage of relaxation exercises as simple as talking with your family and forgetting about problems.
- Control expenses. Seeing how the money goes assiduously can upset any and cause stress levels to increase. Doing a planing and avoid getting carried away by unnecessary whims will be of great help.
- Avoid family discussions. The family is to support and enjoy, not to pay with them the tensions of these days.
Damián Montero
