How to manage STRESS?

So cute! Make me feel so happy! :)

Think about the times in your life when you've felt stress: maybe while giving a presentation at work, worrying about your children, racing to meet a deadline or arguing with your spouse.

Remember how your heart was pounding and you were breathing harder? People with heart failure need to avoid that kind of physical response to stress. Emotional stress and anxiety make the heart work harder, which can make symptoms worse.

Everyone has certain stress-causing "triggers" — things such as rush-hour traffic, a demanding boss, finances or family conflict. No one can control all of these challenges, but there are ways to cope with them better.

Here are 12 good strategies for reducing stress. Use them if you have heart failure, or pass them along to a loved one who does.

1. Talk with family, friends, clergy or other trusted advisers about your concerns and stresses and ask for their support.
2. Take 15 to 20 minutes a day to sit quietly, breathe deeply and think of a peaceful scene.
3. Learn to accept things you can't change. You don't have to solve all of life's problems.
4. Count to 10 before answering or responding when you feel angry.
5. Don't use smoking, drinking, overeating, drugs or caffeine to cope with stress. These make things worse.
6. Look for the good in situations instead of the bad.
7. Exercise regularly. Do something you enjoy, like walking, swimming, jogging, golfing, walking a pet, tai chi or cycling. Check with your doctor to determine what activity level is right for you.
8. Think ahead about what may upset you and try to avoid it. For example, spend less time with people who bother you. If you're still working or volunteering, cut back on your hours and adjust your schedule to avoid driving in rush-hour traffic.
9. Plan productive solutions to problems. For example, talk with your neighbor if the dog next door bothers you, and set clear limits on how much you'll do for family members.
10. Learn to say no. Don't promise too much. Give yourself enough time to get things done.
11. Join a support group ... maybe for people with heart disease, for women, for men, for retired persons, or some other group with which you identify.
12.Seek out a mental health professional or counselor if you can't cope on your own. Helping people is their specialty. Ask your doctor, family or friends for recommendations. If they can't help, ask your spiritual leader or a hospital social worker for some names.

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=360

Even though I am a Sagittarius I still feel stress most of the time. Sagittarius is known to be a happy-go-lucky personality, which means that Sagittarius are seldom stress because we think positively.

This prove to be accurate a few years ago. This few years, it is not so accurate anymore. Life has become more and more stressful for me due to school and society. The competitive society now has demanded more and more from human. I wonder when will the demand will reach its maximum and human start to break down? I really hope that the whole world can move slowly and not so fast until human like me cannot take it.

If I were to control the Earth, I would want the pace of everything to go slowly. I would make everyone to only have the ability to walk like snail. I would want to world to have a fix smile on everyone face. I think this way, the world would be a much nicer world.

Because of the stress in the society now, many people ended their life. I think they did the right thing because such a society is not suitable for human. Now my personal principle is that, if I am unable to achieve anything, I would jus smile through it and moves on with my life. The time won't stop just because I did not know how to solve something.

No matter you are feeling stress for whatever reasons, just remember that time will still pass. Just enjoy yourself and pass your life happily and everything will pass in a blink. :)