How to Reduce Your Stress Without Doing Less

I've written before about how to reduce stress when writing exams, but now I want to explain the best ways to reduce stress in general. Reducing stress is the key to living a happy and healthy lifestyle, while still being productive. Here's how you can reduce your stress without doing less.
5. Find the source
Figure out where your stress is coming from. For most people, there stress comes from working too much or not having enough leisure time. If this is the case, consider switching to a job that allows you enough leisure time, or else make sure you get enough time to yourself in your current job. It's no surprise that increasing your leisure time actually increases your productivity overall.
4. Deep breathing
Breathing excersises such as slow deep breaths are proven to help calm you down when dealing with a particularly anxious moment. Make it a habit to do breathing exersises when you feel anxious or tense and you will notice that these moments aren't as difficult to get through.
3. Look at the bigger picture
If something is stressing you out consider if it is really important for you to deal with it. If your job is stressful, consider how much you really like your job. If you can't leave your job, then it is important to you and you should try to accept that it will sometimes be stressful, as long as it is not overwhelming.
2. Deal properly
If you deal with stress by encouraging vices, your stress will only increase in the long run. Smoking, drinking, overeating and watching TV for hours will only make you feel worse overall. Instead...
1. ... Get fit
Excersise is the number one way of decreasing stress. Its partly for psychological reasons: you feel better about yourself, and its partly physical: your body releases stress-fighting endorphins. Eat healthily, excersize regularly, and control your diet and you will be feeling much better soon. Working out doesn't have to take much time. In as little as half an hour you can get a work out that makes you feel completely refreshed.
Here are some links to help you get started on your journey to decrease stress:
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