STRESS!!!

Have you ever been soo stressed out to the point where you just physically want to break down??? I think we as Full time College students have reached our breaking point once or twice. In CLS this week we learned a few strategies on how to reduce the amount of stress you have. For me I have a very hard time dealing with my stress, because I feel like just when I have it under control something has to happen to make me stress out AGAIN!!! In our workshop on Monday Janine mentioned 3 different ways on how we can reduce our stress, which are: Relaxation Strategies, Stress-O-Meter, and the Stress Diagram. For this weeks Blog I decided to choose the Relaxation Strategies and the Stress-O-Meter. I chose these two things because they both show me two different sides to my stress. The Relaxation Strategies is where you basically jot down all the ways that at the end of the day help relieve your stress. For the Stress-O-Meter you right down what stresses you out, how you reduce the stress, the day of the week, and what level of stress it is. For the Relaxation Strategies I would either write down what stressed me out at the end of the night or right after it happened. After doing that I always go back to the previous pages where I wrote down my stressor or a inspirational quote. I bring this book with me EVERY single day just in case. To start the Stress-O-Meter you make 4 different columns, then make the first column the day(s) that you were stressed, the second column is for the level of the stress, then what stressed you out, and finally the fourth column is where you put down any reducers.

Relaxation Strategies:

Stress-O-Meter

Using these two strategies really helped me stay calm and not worry soo much over certain things. It was also good for me to actually write down the things that stressed me out, because it would just stick in my mind. So every time I came across that certain thing I would remember it and not allow it to stress me out again.