Is it possible for you to control stress? Can you increase it by 100%? Especially when everything is well around you? Actually all depend on you and it is not so difficult as it seems to be. You can try the tactics below.

When he will say: “You look tired”, - you shall reply: “I knew that you don’t like me anymore”. And in case he will say: “The meat seems not to be salted” this will allow you to reply like this: “You are always trying to humble me”.

1. Exertion

Simply toughen your muscles. Gloom eyebrows. Clench your teeth. Compress your chest till it become difficult to breathe. Actually this is quite enough. In case there is a need you can add hands, thigh muscles and so on.

Effect: your emotional experience, feelings and thoughts become more disastrous.

2. Don’t move

Spend the whole day doing something sitting at the one place and the rest of the time watch TV.

Effect: after a few days of such motionless life as your stress will increase considerably. You will start thinking about troubles which motions diverted you from previously.

What the stress is required for?

Why people artificially increase their stress while we don’t experience the lack of it in our everyday life? The reason is that the stress condition makes us solve certain problems or according to psychologists provides “secondary profit”.

Particularly stress:

- provides adrenalin shock and effervesces when we experience the lack of risk;
- makes feel oneself an important and significant person that is always busy and is always late;
- allows to avoid intimacy and keep a distance: when the person is afraid of relations he or she may thoroughly turn to the important business;
- allows to avoid responsibility (“I have no time to solve this as I’m quite busy”);
- allows to claim for obedience from those surrounding us as in the state throughout the martial law.

3. Natural pharmacology

The constant and always increasing use of the nicotine, caffeine, sugar. It is also possible to alternate coffee with alcohol.

Effect: quite soon you will know how the health depends on the biochemistry. Even the legal and usual “psychotropics” in great doses misbalance natural vigil and relaxation mechanisms.

4. Listen to your body

Watch a rapt attention on your body. Do you have any strange sensation in your left hand? And are there any almost unnoticeable vibrations and pricking in your stomach? Isn’t it suspicious?

Effect: you will surely feel something unpleasant and may continue to think about your unknown diseases. This technique is quite effective in combination with medical literature study.

5. Think globally

Take care about the things beyond of your control regularly. Think about epidemics, hurricanes, planet chilling and similar global problems for half an hour everyday.

Effect: helplessness feeling, anxiety, exertion.

6. What do I need to be happy?

Consider your life from the following point of view – what do you need. You can recall successful in this or that areas friends or biographies of famous persons. It is also useful to look through catalogs and find there something you can not afford because of its high cost.

Effect: in case you will always follow this point of view you will always have a reason to feel yourself unhappy.

7. Haste

Try to hasten all the time. Even when resting or playing with child.

Effect: you will start to do everything in your life only perfunctory and will lose any satisfaction from it.

Laugh and stress

Laughter and stress are not compatible. Below are the effects of the laughter on the stress and its consequences:
- increases mental and muscles relaxation;
- maintains the feeling of happiness;
- releases natural happiness hormones – endorphins;
- decreases stress hormones (epineohrine, pregnenetrioldione and several others) level;
- decreases blood pressure;
- maintains heart in tonus;
- cleans lungs of carbonic acid;
- increases muscles flexibility;
- stimulates immune system.

8. Will do it after

Postpone everything you have to do and decide for another time regularly.

Effect: This maintains the constant guilt feeling and some time after helplessness in the face of unreal number of unsolved problems will appear.

9. Try to be the ideal

Direct yourself to the highest standards and curse yourself for the slight failures or imperfectness.

Effect: As the ideal almost unreachable you will surely reach the constant feel of chronic failure.

10. Nothing ridiculous

Eliminate humor and laughter from your life.

Effect: Your stress will increase at once as it hardly fits humor, as the stress is so serious.

However these are not the all ways to increase your stress from nothing. There are thousands of them. Maybe you apply several of them by yourself? Or you have other favorite and original methods? It is quite important to see them. When you understand what actions lead to the growth of your stress it is quite easier to control it. Thus you become free to use them or not.

Stress for two

The stress may be increased together with your beloved person. Here are several useful methods:

- Let he change

Choose an aim – to change another person.

Effect: This is impossible task and your beloved will resist when you will try to change him. Then any joint action you do like sex, dinner or shopping turn to ruthless and futile battle.

- Stress in the bed

Never tell your beloved about what you like in sex and what you don’t like.

Effect: This gives the constant dissatisfaction from sex and enables you to take offence at the misunderstanding and inconsideration from your beloved chronically.

- Thoughts reading

When he will say: “You look tired”, - you shall reply: “I knew that you don’t like me anymore”. And in case he will say: “The meat seems not to be salted” this will allow you to reply like this: “You are always trying to humble me”.

Effect: Skillfully interpreting secret thoughts of your beloved you will find the ground for offence in his every harmless word. And in case you will add a bit of amateurish psychology (“this is the unconscious aggression and unsolved Oedipus complex”), any word and action of your partner will increase stress and he will never be able to justify himself.

- Without keeping silence

Try to talk without a break when you are together with your partner filling every interval with your words.

Effect: Typical man will soon feel overstress as he initially is able to listen you only for 10-15 seconds attentively. That is why he will probably retire and you will be able to complain about the fact he doesn’t listen and understand you.

- Keep silence, cover and conceal …

Don’t tell about anything negative with your beloved: about the things you don’t like in your joint life or about the things you are wishing but unable to get from him.

Effect: this method will not have any instant effect but leads to stable stress for long years. When you don’t tell your beloved about your disappointments, dissatisfactions and problems the stress constantly and invisibly increases the exertion. And this may result in explosion or total coolness and disappointment.