AVOID STRESS

It is an established fact that people who suffer from stress and tension are likely to exacerbate any pre-existing chronic medical conditions that they have like psoriasis and psoriasis because they allow their emotions to run away with them.

If you can reduce stress levels in your life, you will give yourself a far better chance of avoiding further outbreaks of psoriasis.

The first thing you can do to reduce the amount of stress you have to put up with on a daily basis is to change your life so that you don’t put yourself in situations where you are going to be stressed.

For example, if you are the kind of person who ends up running to the subway or railway station every morning for the very last train that will get you to work on time, try getting out of bed 10 minutes earlier so that you can catch a subway or train that is not so desperately last minute.

If you are always too rushed to eat properly because you hang around the office during your break times, try to get away for 30 minutes or an hour so that you are completely removed from the stress filled environment of work. If you can find somewhere that is peaceful and relaxed to go to during your break, that’s even better. Sitting in the park feeding the ducks is going to be less stressful than fighting your way to the front of the queue in the local burger or fried food joint.

JUST TAKE IT EASY…

Try to plan your meals at home in advance as well. By doing so, you ensure that you do not spend every evening immediately after leaving the office having to dash to the mall or convenience store to find food for the family dinner.
If you are almost always at the beck and call of your family, try to set aside some time for yourself, time when you can relax and perhaps even pamper yourself. While it is absolutely commendable that you are going to do everything you can to help everyone else, you must realize that living your life at Mach 3 is going to damage your health.

When that happens, how will you be able to help and look after others when you are sick?

Stress always floods your body with ‘flight or fight’ chemicals, which is extremely useful in genuine emergency situations. However, once it becomes a constant factor of your life, it gradually wears you down and further damages your immune system (which as an psoriasis sufferer is probably in a pretty poor shape anyway) as it does so.

On the other hand, it is inevitable that if you slow down your everyday lifestyle, you will reduce the stress levels that you have to put up with on a daily basis as well. When you do this, difficulties which are exacerbated by stress like psoriasis are likely to become far less problematical for you.

What we are talking about here is a complete reassessment of your life.

You must give yourself the time to take a step back so that you are able to assess everything you do in your normal day-to-day life, because it is only by knowing what you’re doing that you can begin to change it. A daily journal would be invaluable so that you can really see what you do every day. Armed with this information, you can start making the necessary changes to reduce stress levels in your life.

Specific training to minimize stress:

In addition to modifying your everyday lifestyle in an effort to reduce the amount of stress that is undoubtedly exacerbating your psoriasis problem, there are several things that you can learn which might help you to be able to de-stress even further.

In order to learn practices like yoga, it was not all that long ago that you had to go to organized classes which would have cost money, but it is now possible to pick up most of the information that you need from the internet completely free.

This is well worth doing, because practices like yoga have a long history of being used for relaxation as well as for exercise and building strength.

To find as much information as you need about how to start learning to relax properly using yoga, all you need to do is search a major engine like Google using a term like ‘learning yoga’:
Or you could look for information about ‘yoga for relaxation’:

There really is no shortage of yoga information available online, so you can learn everything you need to know in the comfort of your own home.

Try combining yoga with other broadly accepted practices for slowing down your life and reducing stress – like learning meditation, how to breathe properly and so on. By doing so, you can build your own daily relaxation routine that you can use to calm yourself down any time stress levels start to climb.

Remember that this is not about becoming a fully fledged yogi or acknowledge expert in meditation, unless of course you want to. The main focus of what you are doing is to learn new ideas and techniques to ensure that you are always as calm and relaxed as possible.

It is not therefore absolutely necessary to adopt any particular practice in order to achieve a relaxed state, as long as what you find works for you.