Twenty Tou Ways to De-stress

1. Drink tea: Calm your nerves and have a sip. Add a little bit of sugar or honey and fresh lemon.

2. Read a book: It helps when there’s complete silence, but if you need music, try to play something soothing like nature sounds or instrumentals.

3. Take a walk: You can walk down the hall, you can walk down the street, wherever.

4. Meditate: You don’t have to say “ommm” 30 times, but sitting with your eyes closed in a quiet place helps.

5. Pray: Or call someone and ask them to pray for you.

6. Eat: A light snack preferably with a water.

7. Exercise: Take advantage of the abilities that you were given.

8. Turn off all devices: Sometimes, it’s healthy to un-plug from society.

9. Have deep Breathing Exercises: Zen master and author Thich Nhat Hanh has a few online.

10. Recite your goals: Look at your plans and speak them into existence, but don’t scare yourself!

11. Play music

12. Chew gum

13. Talk to friends

14. Write out your thoughts

15. Take a nap

16. Laugh

17. Send funny videos to your friends on Twitter

18. Dance

19. Stretch your limbs

20. Take a hot bath

Tou Extra Ways to Destress:

1. Treat yoself!: Take yourself out to eat. Get your nails done, get a pedicure. Do some quick shopping. Get something nice for yourself and treat yourself to some finer things.

2. Post your favorite motivational quotes in your room: When you wake up, read at least one every day before you leave out your house.