Home Remedies for Stress

March 24th, 2007 | admin

Feeling not in control, feeling worn out, feeling short tempered – if you are showing these signs you are under attack of stress.

Stress is a serious mental condition that has the potential to affect your performance at work and diminish the quality of your private life.

Present lifestyle and professional requirements take its toil on individuals and people find it hard to cope with daily dose of stress.

Stressful life is not Ayurvedic style of life. To cope with stress, one can have a look at Ayurvedic principles and follow the daily routines set by ancient Ayurveda practitioners.

Here are a few simple guidelines to manage stress

Get six to eight hours of sleep at night.

Wake up early before sunrise and practice yoga and meditation.

Listen to soothing music. Fast beats increase your heartbeat and puts you on stress. Hindustani and Carnatic tunes on pleasant notes (morning raga) are best.

Enjoy smelling rose flowers in your garden. Try gardening if you already hadn’t and ensure at least a few flowers daily morning.

Gardening is a must have hobby – optional hobbies include taking long walks beside a riverside or a lakeside, writing and venting out your thoughts on paper, learning to play a musical instrument, taking a class on pencil drawing, water color painting or oil painting, collecting stamps or anything you like, etc.

You must take at least seven hours a week to develop your hobby. Don’t allow worrying thoughts come to your mind while engaged in your hobby.

Develop a habit of talking and listening to everyone that comes across your life.

Join a laughter club. Unbelievable but true, half an hour of laugh a day can destroy stress causing hormones. If can’t find a laughter club, laugh for 10-20 minutes in a private location (where no one else know what you are doing).

These are natural methods of relieving stress. It is better you never depend on any drugs or medicines to control stress.
Ayurvedic Herbs Helpful in Relieving Stress

Aswagandha (Withania somnifera) is best known tranquilizer with little known side effects. It is known as an adaptogen and is used in the treatment of hypertension, diabetes, general weakness, sexual impotence, etc. Take 250 mg of Aswagandha tablets or powder on a daily basis to improve physical strength, mental ability and problem solving capacities.