Many clients I work with find they get overwhelmed with life’s pressures and things seem get on top of them.

As a result, they often feel a high level of anxiety, increased stress and a sense of feeling stuck, not knowing how to move forward as there is not enough hours in the day for the tasks they feel they need to achieve.

 As usual my Vlogs and Blogs are ALWAYS about finding simple solutions to challenges and are never rocket science.

What people experience when they follow these suggestions can be profound if practiced regularly, I have experienced some really calming effects and have put the actions in my ‘tool kit’ to use.

I know for myself when I get overwhelmed it’s not easy to feel calm and focused, so these are my suggestions which can really make a difference.

 1. STOP whatever you are doing a take 3 deep breaths.

 When you breathe deeply messages are sent to your brain to calm down and relax. The brain then sends this message to your body. When you are stressed you increase your heart rate, experience fast breathing, and  your blood pressure gets higher, all  these decrease as you breathe deeply to relax

2. Pay attention to relaxing your body

Tightness brings about tension in the mind and body, when we relax more it decreases the tension and allows us to feel more calm and be able to focus more easily

3. Drink a glass of water ( and repeat regularly)

This will hydrate your body and  again help you regain focus , a lack of water in the body dramatically reduces our mental agility

4. prioritise what actions actually must be done now

Allowing a more structured realistic action plan for now, and then for today, will automatically start to reduce pressure anxiety and stress.

5.  Focus on one small tiny action to do next then repeat

By having a small action to focus on without distraction followed by another allows us to feel back in control, and less overwhelmed

I find these actions so helpful and hope you do too, also I get movement into my daily routine even if its just a walk in the fresh air to clear my head.

 My longer  recent blog with the effects of overwhelm and and more solutions may also be a good read to help you.

http://www.innavision.co.uk/news/2021/3/23/managing-overwhelm