Explain three additional ways to reduce stress as presented in Chapter 24
Answers can include any of the following:
• Listen to your body.
• Deal directly with the cause.
• Distance yourself.
• Talk yourself through a situation.
• Pat yourself on the back.
• Be creative.
• Change problems to challenges.
• Keep agreements.
• Take short naps.
• Change your physiology; change your feelings.
• Write about it.
• Talk it out.
• Cry it out.
• Scream it out.
• Sing it out.
• Dance it out.
• Focus on the needs of others.
• Have sex.
• Soak in the tub.
• Gaze at the sky.
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