Goal

To manage stress effectively so that it doesn’t overwhelm you.

When you're stressed, it can be difficult to focus on making time for yourself. Resilient people use techniques to ensure stress does not overwhelm them. These include mindfulness, breathing exercises, visualisation and humour.

Try the following tip. Regular use will effect positive change in your habits. Before long, it will become second nature.

Remember NUTS

HOW

Scientific research has shown a stressful situation contains one or more of these;

N - novelty; something new

U - unpredictability; no way of knowing it could occur

T - threat to the ego; feeling competence is questioned

S - loss of control; feeling of little or no control in a situation

WHY

Remembering NUTS when you are feeling stressed helps you to maintain perspective on the situation.