WALKING BENEFITS

The Stress busters at workplace

One of my walking partners was saying now handling stress in workplace is more critical than any other management practices. Stress is causing health problems, low productivity, absenteeism, substance abuse and some loose nerves in workplace. Talk with any of your friend, who works in corporate houses, they will admit they experience moderate to high level of stress.

Experts say that it takes very little to trigger that sense of anxiousness. The helplessness that generally accompanies stress makes it a dangerous cocktail. It takes sometime for a person to feel at what position he is in and by the time he is into a serious medical problem.

Experts again say, it does not take too much effort to ward off the stress. There are many ways and practices by which you can control and release your stress. Yoga, Tai-Chi-Chuan, Breathing Control exercises and even free hand exercises are used to control stress. The above are done indoor and so corporate houses/offices prefer them. Walking is another very strong stress reliever. It is an outdoor activity and it does not fit into a corporate office.

Stress leaves its effect is much beyond the corporate office, it creeps into your personal life. It can spoil a healthy relationship and will make you aggressive. You probably can not take a correct decision if you are under stress. Your health will go down and you will be most irritable person in the world, though you were nice and friendly a few months back. The best way out of the mess is stress busting and for that matter; walking. If done regularly, it will give you more benefits than any other stress busters. And the best part is that walking has very less dropout rate than any other form of exercises.

In working place you can practices walking-therapy in addition to others by following the rules below.
Park your car/vehicle a little further from your work place and walk down a few steps more.
Do not sit down all day, you can attend many jobs standing and slightly moving around. Thinking process is better while in motion. (What do you think?)
Walk down to your colleagues for any discussion, provided you have time.
If your workplace is in walkable distance from your residence, walk down at least every other day.
Fetch your stationery requirements by walking down to the other end of the office once or twice everyday.
Greet everybody while walking in the office, it will give you acceptance.
Always remember, you are to make 10,000 steps a day and you spend a good number of hours at your workplace.
Relax from your work by walking around in the office building.

It is your life. It is your duty to make it better.

Walk to make your life better.