Top 10 Tips to Reduce Stress Within Your Business by WorkingforWellbeing.co.uk

Top 10 Tips to Reduce Stress Within Your Business

By Francis McGinty, at WorkingforWellbeing.co.uk

Stress in the workplace is a destructive but avoidable force within many companies. Unchecked, it robs employees of their creativity, innovation and motivation. Currently national statistics indicate that stress costs every business £3725 per annum, for every UK employee.

If you are an employer you can choose to ignore this loss of profit, but by law, you have a legal obligation to protect the health and safety of your employees and that includes their mental wellbeing.

If you are an employee stress can have a serious impact on your health, happiness and family life.

Stress robs us all of the joy of life.

Working for Wellbeing shares 10 top tips for easing stress:

1. Learn to say no. Not easy, but it can be done. If you are overwhelmed, let your boss know that your day is full and ask which tasks to prioritise.

2. Take regular breaks. We actually achieve more by switching our attention from active to relaxed and back again, even if it’s just for a few minutes.

3. Take 10 deep breaths. This allows your brain to receive more oxygen.

4. Take a walk. Try walking that little bit further, use the stairs, even move the rubbish bin somewhere where you have to get up from your desk and walk to it.

5 Stretch. Yogis know that when we are physically flexible, we are more able to go with the flow mentally and emotionally.

6. Learn a quick-fix tapping routine. Thought Field Therapy (or Tapping as it’s commonly known) is an incredible way to reduce the Cortisol levels that stress creates very quickly. For the tapping routine you can read Tapping the Healer within by Dr Roger Callaghan or e-mail francis@workingforwellbeing.co.uk for a free download.

7. Dream. Shut your eyes for a single minute and imagine that you are in your favourite place . . . see it, hear it, smell it, taste it and feel you are there.

8. Don’t skip lunch. Your brain can’t function rationally when you are hungry.

9. Have a glass of water. Your brain needs to be hydrated.

10. Listen to a good piece of music. Binaural music is a great way of relaxing the brain from Beta to the far more creative Theta state. ChocolateBuddha.co.uk has just the thing.

For a more long-term solution ask your boss to introduce a wellbeing program.

For more information please contact francis@workingforwellbeing.co.uk.


About Working for Wellbeing Ltd

Working for Wellbeing Ltd assists organisations to embed a Psychosocial Risk Management (stress management) process that enables them to be more productive through the care and wellbeing of staff. We write and run the only UKAS and OFQUAL recognised training courses in the World. We created the first Psychosocial Risk Audit that can measure if organisations are compliant with current laws and guidelines. This lowers their litigation risks.