Chronic stress limits potential, has a destructive effect on health and interpersonal relationships. Lack of stress management skills costs life satisfaction, harms you and those around you. The ability to manage stress is essential to maintain balance and prevent the difficulties of functioning in a turbulent world of rapid and unpredictable change.
Stress management
It is not possible to live completely without stress, but it is possible to manage stress and, going further, to manage oneself under stress. Each of us has our own strategies for coping with stress, which does not mean that they are effective and healthy. Maladaptive stress coping mechanisms, even if they bring temporary relief, negatively affect health, life and relationships with others. Stress management means taking conscious steps to reduce stress in a healthy way and controlling stress using adaptive methods based on a person’s external and internal resources. Stress management can refer to the personal process of reducing tension or actions taken by leaders to reduce stress in an organization. In both cases, it is useful to know how to neutralize stress quickly and how to strengthen coping skills. Management protects against the wide-ranging costs of stress, helps unlock opportunities, and allows optimal performance of life or work tasks. This leads to greater life satisfaction and improved well-being.

Stress in everyday life
Stress is a neurological and physiological reaction caused by a stressor. Stressors set off alarms and trigger the process of energy mobilization. Since the reaction is sometimes disproportionate to the stimulus, the energy finds no outlet. The model of physiological stress shows its onset, buildup, descent and end. Dangerous to health is stress, the level of which does not fall, it is protracted in time. Harmful is an excess of stress, a situation when there are many stressors and the waves of stress overlap, missing the moment of energy release and the relaxation phase. These unfinished stress cycles upset the balance causing psychophysical exhaustion. Constantly remaining under stress can block the natural regeneration system, fatal sleep disorders can occur due to stress. Accumulated stress begins to be felt on the physical level in the form of pain, and on the mental level in the form of lowered mood and a range of difficult emotions that interfere with functioning. The natural way to release stress energy is through physical activity and emotional expression. Social norms, cultural norms, image issues and others can limit these forms of stress neutralization, especially in public places. An anti-stress way of breathing that engages the diaphragm can be practiced by participating in relaxation breathing sessions, such as breathing sessions with the VR TierOne GO mobile relaxation goggles. Adequate breathing leads to stimulation of the vagus nerve, which quiets the body’s alarm response and reduces the levels of released stress hormones. Breathing also works on the psyche, increasing the sense of control over the body’s physiology, mind and situation. This is important because in chronic stress there is often a feeling of helplessness.

Turn on the relaxation of the VR TierOne GO
Regular relaxation protects against the accumulation of stress and equips you with the ability to deal with tension in a healthy way. In view of this, it is responsible to provide the body with rest. Scheduling relaxation breaks is an appropriate approach for effective stress management. Incorporating breaks into your daily schedule prevents stress from accumulating. Rest should not be postponed, because in stress, despite the obvious need for relaxation, rational decision-making processes are reduced, and tunnel thinking impairs the ability to solve a problem, including the problem of one’s own tension. If we don’t have developed healthy habits to support stress reduction, we can’t effectively get rid of stress ourselves in stressful situations. Persistent stress weakens the ability to relax, so outside help is sometimes needed. This help can take the form of guided relaxation. With the support of a guide, it is easier to restore balance and focus on the relaxation process. An effective form of guided relaxation is TierOne GO’s VR virtual relaxation. In addition to voiceover narration with guidance, the VR relaxation participant experiences immersion in a safe environment of nature filled with music, sounds of nature, elements conducive to passing into a state of complete relaxation and total tranquility. You can read more about the components of virtual relaxation here. VR TierOne GO relaxation goggles are a modern tool, but based on traditional relaxation techniques – meditation, mindfulness, breath training. The goggles with spherical VR therapeutic-relaxation videos allow to bring a quick calming effect, and with regular use promote stress prevention. So if you are managing stress, pay attention to the TierOne GO VR device worth including!
