Ways To Relieve Stress, Depression and Anxiety

Relieving Stress Can Help To Lift Your Feelings

Finding ways to relieve stress is helpful, especially if you have been feeling anxious, stressed or depressed. The longer you remain in a stressed and negative state, the harder it is to pick up afterwards.

Methods that you can use to release anxiety and stress includes using various tools such as meditation, affirmations and using healing crystals of course.

Finding ways to relieve stress is helpful, especially if you have been feeling anxious, stressed or depressed. The longer you remain in a stressed and negative state, the harder it is to pick up afterwards.

Methods that you can use to release anxiety and stress includes using various tools such as meditation, affirmations and using healing crystals of course.

Life has been quite difficult in recent years, with both the problems in the financial system and a large number of both man-made and natural disasters happening around the world.

Even if you are not personally involved, hearing about these things often makes you feel anxious and sends everyone's stress levels up.

When you feel anxious, it is important to make an attempt to lift your state of mind as soon as possible.

Stress Relief Through Meditation

Meditation is one of the better ways to relieve stress that you have at your disposal. It is highly beneficial to relieve anxiety and stress and you will feel more at peace after doing a meditation.

While you are meditating your brain waves need to slow, as ideally their rhythm changes from the beta wave, of normal day to day activities, to the slower alpha wave.

Two particular areas of the brain, the Amygdala and the Anterior Cingulate Cortex are known to be related to quieting your mind, allowing you to let go of stress and tension.

If you are one of these people who finds it hard to stop those persistent thoughts from interrupting, using Isochronic Tones are an effective aid to help you to be able to meditate better.

Using these tones assists you because it works by encouraging these special areas of the brain, to entrain with the new rhythms that are introduced by hearing these tones.

As your mind chatter stops, you will go deeper into the meditative (alpha) state. Ways to relieve stress that use meditation may aid your health, as it may improve your blood pressure and ease tension, both related to stress.

Using Healing Crystals For Stress Relief

Using crystals is one of the ways to relieve stress that you can benefit from, and utilizing them for stress relief is very simple.

Chrysanthemum Stone shown below is an example of one of the stones you may choose to use. The two best ways to use their vibration is firstly to keep them on your body and secondly to use them in meditation.

During meditation you need to relax for it to be successful. Using stones that help you to relax and that ease stress has been shown to be helpful.

In addition they have other attributes which include aiding you to develop psychic gifts and helping to enhance your creativity as well as a range of other powerful metaphysical and healing properties.

Make Sure You Use These New Ways To Let Go Of Stress

There have been quite a few books written about the idea of using affirmations. I strongly believe in the effectiveness of affirmations, as they can help you in a variety of ways.

Louise Hay talks about the healing aspects and the power of positive affirmations in her book 'You Can Heal Your Life'.

You may also place any of the lovely calming healing crystals in the room you spend the most time in, including next to your bed or under your pillow.

If you have trouble sleeping there are specific crystals for sleeping better, so check out this article if you are experiencing insomnia.