INSTANT STRESS Relief Strategy in 60 Seconds | Doc Cherry

The level of stress for many had been increasing instead of getting better. Whatever the cause of your stress may be, in this video I will teach you a 60-second technique to instantly relieve stress to help clear your mind because recent data have already showed that 33% of people have already reported feeling extreme stress. Hi, this is again Doc Sherry, Doctor of Physical Therapy, teaching you health tips and home exercise programs that you and your family can benefit from. Stress is a natural feeling. If it is short-term stress, we have no problem with that. In fact, it can be good for you. It may make you more productive and it can even protect you. It is long-term stress that is not good for your health. But the truth is we can do something to help ourselves and to clear our mind so that we won't be negatively affected with stress. Stress happens and begins in your mind when you feel that you are out of control for a certain situation. But there are different techniques to help you cope with stress conservatively and naturally. It is our obligation to manage stress so that we will not be affected because we know for a fact that long-term stress has been strongly linked with heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, depression, and even anxiety. Breathing manipulation is a technique that is widely studied to help clear your mind and relieve stress instantly. Deep breathing can help you with stress and with anxiety. That is because when you take slow and deep breaths, you're actually signaling your central nervous system to relax. Deep breathing is a natural and effective technique to help clear your mind and decrease your stress levels. It is effective and it does not have any side effects. So you can repeat it as often as you need it whenever you're in a stressful situation. Besides breathing manipulation, there are also three body parts that you can stimulate to instantly relieve stress and these are the following. The first body part that you want to stimulate to help instantly clear your mind and help lower your stress level is the topmost portion of your head. Using your index finger, you would want to put firm pressure with the topmost part of your head. Maintain this for What it does is it relaxes you. It calms you and it helps whenever you have a headache or when you have anxiety. The next body part that you can stimulate to help clear your mind and lower your stress level is in your forehead, midway between your two eyebrows. So what you're going to do is using your thumb, you want to apply gentle and circular motion in between your eyebrows, not on the bridge of the nose. Apply firm circular motion in this area for 60 seconds. This will calm you down and this will lower your stress level. Before we proceed, if you're learning something out of this video and if you think that natural techniques like this are helpful, I would really appreciate it if you can take only one second of your time to please click the like button below as your way of supporting this channel. Lastly, to clear your mind and instantly lower your stress level, you need to stimulate the area between your thumb and your index finger. So using your thumb and the index finger of your other hand, put firm and circular motion in this area here while taking deep breaths. Do this one for 60 seconds. This will help with anxiety and stress. Stimulating the web space between your thumb and your index finger is not for pregnant women. This can actually promote uterine contractions which may induce labor. But this is safe if you are not pregnant. Stress is and it may be inevitable. However, it is how you respond to stress that will determine its long-term effects in your body. Do the breathing manipulation and the three points that I showed you. This will help you tremendously. If you're looking for a natural way and a one-minute technique for you to sleep better and soundly at night, I have a video here. Please click it. It will definitely help you. If you have reached the end of this video, please comment deep stress in the comment section below. I would really love to hear from you. Please share this video to your friends and family members. Thank you very much for watching. This is again Doc Sherry. Stay safe, stay happy, and healthy. God bless you.