3-Minute Stress Management: Reduce Stress With This Short Activity

3-Minute Stress Management: Reduce Stress With This Short Activity

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Stress is the aspect of anxiety that we feel in our body. Worry is about thoughts, but stress is how our muscles get tense, our breathing gets tight, we feel achy, and our hands sweat. Stress is the physiological response to perceived danger. The good news is you can train your mind and body to be calm by doing simple activities throughout the day.

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I’m Emma McAdam. I’m a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and I have worked in various settings of change and growth since 2004. My experience includes juvenile corrections, adventure therapy programs, wilderness therapy programs, an eating disorder treatment center, a residential treatment center, and I currently work in an outpatient therapy clinic.

In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life’s direction.
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50 Comments

  1. I think back to my younger days, even a year ago. I’m 15 now and I just want to rewind one year so I can live like a real human. This anxiety has fucjed my life, I don’t feel alive, I don’t sleep like a human, I don’t eat like a human, and for the smallest thing I overthink like hell

  2. It worked!! I have my pg entrance tomorrow I’ve prepared well studied, 10-12 hrs a day for last 2 month but still stressed about it. My head was aching for more than 5 hrs I tried to sleep early but i couldn’t. Now I feel little relived. Thanks

  3. To mange stress Planet Ayurveda’s purely herbal formulation ‘Stress Support’ is the best way to tackle stress.

  4. If I do this at work in at my workstation in the middle of the lab full of direct reports they might lose all respect they have and think I got crazy😂

  5. Beeing massaged on my neck and/ or back reduces stress for me. Just 10 minutes getting a little massage from my boyfriend helps much.

  6. M watching this cause due to stress I have 150 bp …. Feeling like my head back of the head is too much hot n eyes n ear temperature raised …nothing is working

  7. Thumbs down only b/c you said better help sponsored. Look up the past 3 company names they used before and had to change b/c of all the corruption.

  8. God always helps me reduce my stress/anxiety by only one Bible verse. John 3:16 ‘For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish but have everlasting life.’ Instantly able to breathe again. But this was really nice it is nice to move your body and shake the stress out! Thank you 🙂

  9. I love this one so much! I have it saved in a file called immediate help and it does the trick every time! I appreciate you

  10. Planet Ayurveda’s Vikramprash has been a great addition to my routine. My stress levels are much lower.

  11. I’m trying to lose a lot of weight and I like to know basically how can I have a good lifestyle but I don’t have stress also that I have the worried and about stuff so I’d like to know what the best way to handle stress and how can I lose weightso I don’t have

  12. I am 17. For 2 weeks I’ve been questioning my gender and I’ve been stressed out to the point I’ve been crying for the first time in practically 5 years and I’m shaking constantly. My organs feel like they want to explode.
    This is helpful but i need to find the time to do it.

  13. I’m trying to lose a lot of weight and I like to know basically how can I have a good lifestyle but I don’t have stress also that I have the worried and about stuff so I’d like to know what the best way to handle stress and how can I lose weightso I don’t have

  14. Thank you very much.
    It’s really helpful.
    I used to sleep when i got stressed. It seemed helpful, but it didn’t.
    Moving my body feels so relaxing.
    I’ll do that whenever i get stressed.
    I appreciate it.

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