Well... I pick up this mechanism to de-stress myself. I find that exhaling while relaxing my muscles removed a bit of tension I felt. But since people frowns on someone who sighs a lot, I want to know how to remove this habit. Any ideas?
Sighing is actually a good de-stress tho~ but I guess you need to distract yourself with other mechanisms like stretching your arms or something~
When you mentioned you sigh a lot, I couldn't help but picture you as some melancholic [Shakespearean] lover pining for their beloved.
I sigh a lot too. Just do it and ignore people who give you crap about it. Sighes aren't that loud anyway.
I think it might be a better idea to keep it? If you're constantly stressed and need a mechanism to de-stress, I think it's better to keep doing it. It's definitely better than letting the stress build up. Alternatively, I guess you can just find a new habit to de-stress?
Imo it's a nice destressing method since it's harmless. For me grip balls or rings are really good but also stress balls if you like destroying what's in your hand since they're more feeble and easy to destroy.
Best way to get rid of bad habits is to focus on them~ At first they slip by, but you will learn to catch them early soon enough.
Ask them: "Oh, so it's better if I just yawn? I was trying to be polite..." But yeah, just pick better times to do it. Though in all seriousness, if someone is stressing you out and you need to destress (or it's due to a stressing situation) and they have the balls to look annoyed at that, complain... Seriously, fuck them. You can be "polite" and keep the stress inside of you, but if it isn't an important situation, put yourself first. There is a Ted talk about how to basically pull a happy memory out of your ass and change your mood really fast. I think you had to kind of build some kind of trigger (I think it was touching a finger or something) which would remind you of the happy memory you picked. And I just found it again:
There’s nothing wrong at all about doing that, and breathing exercises can actually help you calm down and recollect yourself. Instead of sighing, maybe you could make deeper breaths through your nose and make a more even exhale through your mouth, and you could raise your arms as you inhale and lower them as you exhale, it will help to relax your shoulders and also make it look like an exercise. For additional relaxation if anyone would like to know, closing your eyes and doing more light muscle relaxant exercises while doing the above breathing will help lots with centering focus. You should be sitting upright and comfortable on a chair, both feet flat on the ground, or standing with a firm center of gravity, feet slightly spread to about shoulder width apart. Slouching reduces breathing capability so good posture is essential. About 5 minutes every day or before you need to work is perfect, and if you don’t have a spare 5 minutes even just one minute will help. Additional additional stuff for anyone working with kids, you can make it into a game to get them to settle down, like telling them to pretend their breathe is shooting an arrow or flying a plane. Sorry for the rant I’ll be surprised if there’s anyone who read all this.
Sighing is the fastest and most instant destress. I would rather sigh out my frustration than screaming it out outside or letting my body move to destroy something in periphery. If someone frown at you for doing that just comments on them that you had a bad day.