How to Quickly Lower Stress: Shake Body and Talk with Others

For example when a person will face a test or a disaster, the body will secrete stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline as a natural response for survival. That function could be a problem if not controlled because it can cause excessive anxiety.

To help cope with excessive stress reaction neurologist and occupational therapists from Canada, Kimberly Ann Barthel, BMR, OTR, have some suggestions. The first suggestion is to move your body so that adrenalin can be reduced.

The stress reaction when faced with real difficulty is something that the body naturally and not only by humans. Kimberly is familiarly called Kim says take an example like zebra animal when he chased the lion. Currently running Zebra body will experience stress reactions and produce adrenaline but after zebra can reduce levels of stress hormones in the body shaking.

"We certainly never seen a zebra survivors then lying on the ground and the trauma of stress. They can quickly reduce the adrenaline with shaking body and that we humans do not do," Kim said when giving a public lecture at the House of Vocational University of Indonesia (UI ), Depok.

"We need to do that. So next time you feel the adrenaline level high and the body guncangkanlah quickly reduce the flow of adrenaline. We call this technique of self-regulation (self-regulation ed)," he added.

Another way to relieve stress quickly is through talking with others. Kim said that the stress hormone cortisol can be quickly turned off with another hormone called oxytocin. The hormone oxytocin or also known as the love hormone produced by the body when someone is positive socializing with others.

"The antidote to stress is the number one is oxytocin. Oxytocin can be quickly produced when dealing with other people. That's why the ability to heal a psychologist half comes from listening to the patient. The patient received an additional production of oxytocin when told the psychologist," said Kim.

Kim said the hormone oxytocin lowers stress reaction is the fastest and actually better than just shake the body.