Living with stress can have an overwhelming impact on your psychological, emotional and physical wellbeing. Gadens shares 7 tips to help manage stress and build resilience.

1. 7 Tips to Manage
Stress and Build
Resilience

2. Living with stress can
have an overwhelming
impact on your
psychological, emotional
and physical wellbeing.
While we may not be
able to change the
situation itself, we can
become more aware of
our reaction to it.

3. By managing stress
with these 7 simple
lifestyle changes and
basic practices we can
improve our overall
wellbeing and reduce
stress-related damage
to the brain.
As well as create a
more resilient future.

4. Regular exercise
promotes quality sleep,
reduces depression
and boosts self-
confidence through the
production of
endorphins, the “feel-
good” hormones.

5. Relaxation — through meditation,
tai chi, yoga, a walk on the beach,
or whatever helps to quiet your
mind and make you feel more at
ease — can decrease blood
pressure, respiration rate and
muscle tension, and increase
metabolism.

6. Maintaining meaningful social
relationships is critical for both
mental and physical health.
So don’t forget to include friends
and family in activities, go out of
your way to catch up with a friend,
and connect with people who
share your passions.

7. Empower yourself! Start by evaluating what changes
you can realistically make then set goals to achieve
these. Assess situations that are within your control
and own them to reduce stress and give yourself the
confidence to make bigger changes.
Download an app, to keep yourself in check –
Serentia, Smiling Mind and Happify are just a few.

8. We all know that a good laugh can make us feel
better. Having fun with friends, or reading something
amusing is a great way to improve brain health.
Even just thinking about something funny can have a
positive effect on reducing stress and the damage it
does to your body.

9. How you think about what stresses you can actually
make a difference.
Simply changing the way you look at certain
situations, taking stock of the positive things in your
life and learning to live with gratitude can improve
your ability to manage stress and build brain
resilience.

10. Fake it ‘til you make it! Research
shows that displaying physical
signs of confidence actually alters
your hormonal state. Actions like
smiling, standing tall and dressing
the part, release chemicals in your
brain that make you feel happier
and more assertive.