What do you think are the best ways of reducing stress?

This essay is about the way of relieving stress. Since most modern workers are suffered from high stress, it is important to find out good remedy to soothe their stress. This short essay is about my personal opinion about ways of reducing stress.

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People have different ways of escaping the stress and difficulties of modern life.

Some read; some exercise; others work in their gardens. What do you think are the best ways of reducing stress? Use specific details and examples in your answer.

 Nowadays, more and more people put their weights on work-life balance. It can be interpreted as most people are surrounded by stressful situations and they want to find effective ways to relieve their stress. Exercise, listening music, and reading books are quite common and typical methods to escape from stress. 

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​ Some people prefer static ways to relieve their stress and others like active things to get rid of stressors.

 From my personal experience, I like to release my ​stress by exploding emotions through watching sad movies, talking with friends and doing extreme outdoor activities. By doing such things, I can cry buckets* or pour out anger. After that, I feel a kind of catharsis. When I get stressed, I talk to my friends about how I feel and why I'm stressed. I heard that this is what most women do to relieve their stress. Indeed, when I think the listeners can understand my difficulties, feelings, and reason of stress, I feel stress is relieved and I’m ready to move forward.

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 There is a saying, “Some stress is good for health”, which means certain degree of stress can help you maintain proper amount of tension and lead you to productive effort and development. I basically agree with this idea, but I also acknowledge it is hard to keep the certain level of stress under the interpersonal dynamics. In terms of unavoidable stress, it is highly important to have productive ways to relieve it.

 I think the best way of escaping from stress is up to the individual’s preference and characteristics. My best stress solution is to meet my friends and gain the sympathy.However, as I get older, I feel the need for finding a self-sufficient way of doing this because more and more friends of mine will get married, so it is not easy to find friends at the time I need them.​

Vocabulary

*Cry buckets: 펑펑울다(to cry a lot)