
Babies cry because it’s good for them, but it’s good for adults. Laughter helps with this, as does recalling a funny story that made you laugh. If you go all the way through them, you get to the light at the end. Especially when you can laugh together with someone, laughter is a way to release and express all the emotions we’re keeping inside. Do you like to knit, paint, sing, write, or play with modeling clay? Whatever creative endeavor speaks to you, do it. Since stress is physical, physical activity is a big part of ending stress cycles. All of these work. The point is you have to use your body. Running swimming even stomping your feet and screaming or punching your pillow into oblivion. Jumping jacks in your studio apartment are fine. Here are 6 evidence-based strategies for completing our body's stress cycle: Even though you’ve dealt with the stressor by getting out of traffic, your body still needs you to deal with the stress itself by completing the stress response cycle. Your body is still in the middle of the stress response. If you have a difficult commute home, you don’t instantly feel peaceful and relaxed in your body when you arrive. The problems begin if we get stuck-that's burnout. The goal isn’t to live in a state of perpetual balance and peace and calm the goal is to move through stress to calm, so that you’re ready for the next stressor, and to move from effort to rest and back again.” You can’t control every external stressor that comes your way. It’s how we deal with stress-not what causes it-that releases the stress, completes the cycle, and ultimately, keeps us from burning out. “The good news is that stress is not the problem.
