I'm gonna share a personal story with you guys and just a side note I'm
outside it's gorgeous out here and because I'm a small youtuber and I just
kind of started the Sun it's like my best source of lighting and sometimes I
think about it I wish I would have started sooner because I've always
wanted to do it but I'm so happy to be here now and to Phil as though we missed
the meeting right and I'm gonna be a part of this thing that is larger than
myself as I speak to you guys right now I'm incredibly stressed out and it's
windy out here I'm not crying or any English it's just like the wind that's
getting to me but as I sit here and talking about stress relief with you
guys right now I'm stressed beyond belief actually
since I started YouTube since I decided you
get away from corporate and start my own thing to actually feel like I am making
a difference in people's lives so getting online and actually opening
up to you guys and excited me and showing you guys every side of me and
making the videos and trying to be on schedule with those videos the editing
everything it's so stressful I'm so stressed now and it's so much work it's
so much work but it's totally worth it but yeah since I decided to leave but I
am still a psychology major and I'm a sling and so these are topics that we
talk about all the time and I think are very important for us to
just kind of explore the options that we have and help to actually reduce stress
recognizing the symptoms of stress so for example some emotional symptoms of
stress could be if you are irritated more often than usual
that would be wine if you find that you're having a lot
more mood swings than usual or if you find that you are a lot sadder and like
a lot more down than usual the symptoms that I tend to get the most and the way
that I know that I've stressed our physical symptoms and I think that most
people they know they're stressed because they start filling it physically
so some of the ones that I'm currently going through right now is lack of sleep
I literally I'm literally getting like maybe four hours of sleep at night so
I'm not sleeping a lot or enough hours actually
my temper so I find that my patience is a lot shorter when I'm stressed out I'm
less able to handle situations that I should be able to handle
even if I don't want to be in that particular situation so I have a shorter
that's shorter temper and so I get angrier quicker that's another one for
me so I guess these are both physical and behavioral symptoms so I notice a
lot of changes in my behavior when I'm stressed out and I start eating less for
me some people that's eating more when they're stressed out they tend to
compensate for that by eating a lot more I eat less
and I'm not eating enough so they're both pretty I mean you kind of want to
be a happy middle spot mean a middle ground so cognitive symptoms so so
things like difficulty paying attention or concentrating on any one task or one
thing or having sick circular top thoughts that's one that happens to me a
lot especially at night when I'm not able to sleep my mind just keeps going
and going and going and then I just end up getting up and not being able to
sleep so those are some cognitive sometimes to be aware of fun but a lot
of us know when we're getting stressed and we know when we're stressed and we
start filling I'm sorry it's like windy out here right so the struggle and we
start filling a lot more pressure and a lot of times it's because you know we're
less to deal with everything that comes at us
on a daily basis we have less energy to deal with it were not as motivated as we
could be or should be so that's another thing now the question
is then becomes what do we do about reducing stress is reducing our stress
take deep breaths so I try to take a minute or two sit down so if you're
stressed right now just take a minute or two with me sit down and just take a
deep breath
and release it out slowly and just kind of keep doing that keep repeating that
and just release slowly and I do that a couple of times as long as necessary
especially when I feel overwhelmed I feel like a lot of things are coming at
me at the same time I tend to just kind of take a 3d better pause everything
like everything just kind of needs to pause and keep in mind guys that God has
three answers for any situation and every day that we kind of lived through
in any situation that we're in the first is yes the second is not now and the
third is I have something better so try to remind yourself of that you know
whatever it is that you might believe in whether it's God
remind yourself of that those are the usually the answers because when one
door closes another one
I remind myself of especially now with this transition because I come from a
work Brett and I was making a really really decent amount especially for my
age but I wanted to feel like I was making more of an impact it so this is
something that I really wanted to do for myself
so remind yourself up that in if things still overwhelming just pause everything
sit down and take deep breaths and pretty breathe and cut out caffeine
completely because caffeine actually increases your hormone level
it kind of increases the intensity at which you're feeling stressed and a lot
of us what we do is when we're stressed in order to kind of keep that energy up
or that feeling of having energy up we tend to compete even more coffee and
that's the opposite of what we should be doing you need to reduce your
consumption of caffeine a lot of times it comes in the form of coffee that a
lot of us like to drink coffee and you really need to either cut that out
completely for the time being and replace that with water or something
healthier or reduce it drastically but I know like a lot of us in order to keep
functioning and keep feeling like we're functioning and at like an optimal
strength we I personally don't drink coffee but I
drink other things that
think that I can to like to do when I'm feeling stressed writing everything down
because what's happening now that I'm a little bit more stressed trying to
figure everything out the logistics out YouTube has changed its rules it
just everything the impact that I want to make
and trying to connect with you
as my mind is always running and so at night one of the things that actually
keeps me from going to sleep is that I can't stop thinking and my mind is going
up and down and up and down and I just keep thinking about all these things
like what are its ideas that I have for videos or next steps or what to do about
this and what to do about that now that I'm kind of working for myself and when
I write it down I write all those thoughts down because here's the be made
a family before you try to avoid oops did not think about it and suppress it
for example if you're trying to go to sleep
your money's going crazy the worse it gets
it's just not gonna so you need an outlet for that and my outlet
lighting candles oh my gosh I have a lot of candles in my apartment in my little
apartment that's all lined up I have some new ones
even though I'm not done with the ones that I already have so lighting candles
is really therapeutic for me and if you've never done it you could try it
and see if that's something that you would like and that's something that
your stress I love scented candles Emily didn't smell so I have a lot of candles
and I'd like that to be really really help
another thing that I do is essential oils I have a lot of essential oils and
I actually have it boiled thank you sir I put some water in there and I put the
oil and it just kind of you know fills the air with like scented smells I know
not a lot of people or a lot of people might not like the strong scent that
smells so you can opt to go with my candles instead like I do both because
they both work for me and they are both relaxing for me so that's another thing
that I do it makes you work out at least three times a week so today as I'm
shooting this video it's one of my workout days so I'm gonna go to the gym
a little bit later on and run a couple of miles and just do a great workout now
this is hard for me sometimes because when I'm working and caught caught up in
the flow of the day I don't want to interrupt that I feel like I have so
much to get done and you know the first thing that get caught off a lot of times
is exercise and so I make it a priority in my life to exercise at least three
times a week because what I've come to understand is that health is number one
and that everything else comes after and and exercising is a very important part
of staying healthy and I'm number one taking care of myself is the first thing
first and foremost and then everything else comes after I'll be able to be more
effective more efficient so that's what I do I try to make sure to work out a
minimum I also like the benefits you know I buy
all the type of things kind of like make it really nice and I may go event out of
it when I do take that I actually buy it's kind of like a table so when I'm in
the bath I can put it on top and I have my laptop and I'm watching shows that I
love to watch and I have a glass of wine I make it out it's a whole eat bad guys
when I take baths so that is really something that helps me relax and it
helps me be stress when I'm feeling stressed out is hot bubble baths and I
put like certain soaps in there and things like that make it really really
nice really really pretty and when I just
when I get in and I just so kid it's really realizing for me I haven't had a
chance to do that in a couple of weeks but that's another thing that I tend to
do my box as well take on a new hobby I recently took on playing the piano
because I think it would be really really awesome to know how to how to
actually play the piano
so take on a new hobby that you think you would enjoy and one thing that I
really want you guys to know and remember and always keep in mind is that
you can take on a new hobby start and stop starting it's down a lot of people
felt bad because when they take on a new hobby and then they do it for a couple
of weeks or a couple of days they they end up stopping and then they're just
like oh well that didn't work or whatever no if you like doing it it's
okay to start and stop and like if something happens and you just didn't
keep doing it then a couple of weeks later you're like oh I did like doing
that and you pick it back up again and that's how you know you kind of progress
and eventually hopefully integrate that into your lifestyle but it's okay
it's not if those would have been wrong with that don't let it discourage you
for trying that or continuing to do that like every time you remember oh I did
used to do that to relieve some stress and I did like doing it so I'm gonna go
do it again just keep doing it so it's okay to start and stop those are all the
tips that I have in order to help you guys relieve some stress and what helps
me relieve some stress especially now in this time period for myself I'm so glad
to have the support of the subscribers that I currently have right not to focus
on bad just because and so appreciate it
support and so those are some of the things that I do in order to relieve
some of my stress especially now that I really stressed out at this time
period just do take it one minute one hour one
day at a time and I mean that in the most literal way possible because what
happens is we have a lot of things coming at us at once sometimes and we
feel like everything is a priority and everything needs to get done and
slow down when that starts happening pause push pause take a couple of deep
breaths and pick one plane take it one at a time maybe what's most important
what or what are you gonna start with what do you feel like starting with and
start with that and you know once you're done with that we want
because there's always going to be a lot of things that you just have to start
with one you can't necessarily do everything and when you start with one
you find that because once you're done with that the next thing that happens to
me like every day thank you guys for joining me today I so appreciate you
guys I reach eight you watch this video subscribe comment below let me know your
thoughts and I will guys soon bye bye
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