Health problem & Tension: Ten Easy Ways to Handle It - Health Tips

• Pray and meditate. 

• Sing or listen to music. 

• Laugh and use humor. 

• Hug someone. It'll remind you that you not alone. 

• Get together regularly with your friends and family. 

• Play a noncompetitive game or go swimming. 

• Take a hot bath. Heat relaxes your muscles and causes stress to decrease. 

• Take a brief rest during the day. 

• Get away for a while. 

• Spend money without overdoing it. 

1. Inhale deeply through your nose, then purse your lips and exhale slowly through your mouth while letting out an audible sigh. Do this ten times, visualizing your troubles blowing away with each breath.

2. Lower your chin to your chest. Slowly rotate your head up the right shoulder and continue around and down the left shoulder in a complete wide and easy circle. Do this five times. Then straighten up, and shrug and wiggle your shoulders. Then do five more head rolls in the reverse direction.

3. While seated, take your shoes off and roll a walnut or golf ball under your foot, including heels and toes, for one minute. Then repeat the exercise with the other foot.

4. Sit down, close your eyes, relax and slowly rotate your shoulders forward, up-ward, backward and downwards. Do five complete rotations one way and five the other way.

5. Sit down and let your chin slump to your chest. Close your eyes and picture the most beautiful sunset you've ever seen. Then massage your temples and the corners of your jawbone under each earlobe. Use the tips of your fingers to tap rapidly and gently all over your head and the back of your neck. This entire exercise should take about five minutes.

6. Sit with your elbows propped on a table. Slowly rotate your wrists while keeping your hands limp. Do this five times in one direction, five times in the other. Then get up and shake your hands as if you were shaking water from them. Imagine you are shaking off whatever has been causing you to feel stressed.

7. Put your arms at your side and shake your hands vigorously. Bend your elbows, bring up hands up to shoulder height and shake your hands once more. Make a tight fist with each hand and hold for a minute or two. Now, extend your fingers into a wide span. Relax, and repeat the exercise about five times.

8. Rub your palms together briskly until they feel warm. Then quickly cup the palms of your hands over both eyes. Close your eyes and breathe deeply and quietly. Imagine the sound of your breath as a light wind rustling through the trees. When you feel completely relaxed, you can stop.

9. Slap your whole body with warm water for a few minutes.

10. Get into a warm bath, lean back, relax and breathe very deeply.