3 Step Action Plan to Reduce Stress

3 step action plan

Help to reduce the unwanted stress in your daily life by making some simple yet effective changes to your diet and lifestyle.

Sign up 3 ways to stress less
Our 3 step action plan to help you stress less is designed to remove unwanted stress and pressure from your life and encourage you to feel more motivated, happy and enthusiastic.

In week 1, we begin by considering your diet and how you can incorporate foods that may help you to cope better with your stress levels.

Following on, week 2 will provide you with some simple, effective healthy lifestyle tips to help reduce stress which you can implement straight away.
 
And in week 3, we’ll take a look at some of the most popular activities that may help you to stress less.

Sign-up to our 3 step action plan which may help you to cope better with the amount of unwanted stress in your daily life today.

Time to complete

  • 3 weeks

Benefits

  • May aid sleep
  • Wellbeing
  • Mindfulness

Actions

De-stress your diet

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De-stress your diet

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Incorporate more foods that contain nutrients beneficial in time of stress into each meal of your daily diet.

Including foods in your diet that are rich in key nutrients is our first step to helping deliver nutrients important for the body’s normal stress response and can be as easy is making a few simple tweaks to your daily diet.
  • Breakfast - drink a freshly-squeezed orange juice or add plenty of fresh berries to your cereal to boost your vitamin C levels
  • Lunch - add a healthy dose of spinach leaves to your salad or sandwich for increased magnesium intake
  • Dinner - eat fish 2-3 times per week to up your vitamin B6 intake
  • Snacks - raw carrots, celery sticks, small pieces of dark chocolate

Make a conscious effort to slow down

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Make a conscious effort to slow down

2
Reduce the amount of non-essential activities that are contributing to your feelings of stress.

This could mean switching off social media at various points throughout the day, saying no to social gatherings and reducing the amount of time you spend at work after hours.

Take up a natural stress-relieving activity

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Take up a natural stress-relieving activity

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Commit to a popular activity designed to help you reduce stress, like yoga, meditation and mindfulness.

Book a regular massage, take a long walk in a local park or bushland, or indulge in a swim at the beach.