Tips To Manage Your Stress and Keep Your Inspiration High In This COVID-19 Pandemic

Stress has now become a constant part of our day to day life. If you will talk to people, many will even tell you that stress and anxiety dominate a major part of their lives. Most of their life decisions are made under the shadow of how they are feeling at a given moment. So for example, if a person will take up a new job or not, and how he is going to perform in an exam or on a project is influenced by his stress levels. Even kids today are not safe from anxiety and panic.

And in the present context, overcoming stress has become even more difficult with the prevalent Covid-19 situation. There are just so many problems this issue has created that the world has become an uncertain place. People around the globe do not know when they will be able to walk the streets freely, they have no idea if they will retain their jobs in the future, and even worse, they don’t know if they will live to see the post-corona world. All these things have made it difficult to escape anxiety and to keep your inspiration flowing.

Hence, in order to help you in figuring that out, we have created a list of suggestions that might come in handy in going about your life. Here it goes! What should you do to keep the inspiration flowing during stress?

Stress triggers negative reactions. Not only is it responsible for spoiling your mood and for giving you jittery feels, but it also impacts your health negatively. Constant stress can lead to mental issues like depression and it can also cause permanent high BP problems among other physical ailments. Plus, it also impacts your work negatively. Hence, it is important to deal with it in a healthy manner. Here are some tips that might help in this feat.

1. Take a break
In the times when your world is falling into chaos, sitting at its center and taking a break might feel like an impossible task. But who said anything about the battle with stress being an easy one?

So, our first tip in helping you to calm down is to take a break when you are dealing with anxiety. If something is bugging you and causing you jitters then take a break from it. The distance between your work and you will help you in re-vitalizing. If you are still finding it hard to de-stress then we will suggest you to take some deep breaths, let your lungs expand and deflate with fresh air.

After you have gained some calmness you will feel better. You will be more ready and you will feel the energy buzzing through your physique. Plus, your mind will be steadier and relaxed as well. And a relaxed mind will attract inspiration more easily than a tired one.

2. Practice self- care
This part is an extension of the previous point and it details the importance of taking good care of yourself. So, if you are an anxious person by nature and you have a tendency to get stressed easily, then we suggest you do things that make you feel happy and content. It can be anything. For photographers, it can likely be the act of looking at the old snaps that they have clicked or may include clicking some new pictures of random stuff like your cat or your bedroom window. Whatever puts you at ease is worth a try. Plus, practicing something like it will also help you in coming up with new ideas and new zeal!

3. Practice art
According to experts, creativity is something that keeps you inspired and distracts you from feeling anxiety and panic. It even directs your brain to secrete feel-good chemicals, and hence it is a precious tool in fighting against stress. Now, one needs to understand that art does not need to be something that you engage in only during your free time. Instead, you should make art a part of your routine. From art, you will get your much-needed dose of inspiration.

Now, to the question about how you can make art a regular part of your life, there are easy answers. Expose your life to different artists. Follow them on social media or browse photographers’ galleries. You can also bookmark yourself on art-related pages like Flickr or 500px or you can follow the inspirational work of some photo editing services. If that is not refreshing enough then you can draw your inspiration from different fields of arts as well, like books or music.

4. Join a photography class
Sometimes being surrounded by regular acts that are related to your profession taps out your creative juices. If you are around emails, and job-related tasks all the time, then you can easily lose your creativity and feel uninspired.

Now, in order to deal with this situation in a healthy way, a good solution is to physically meet other inspired people. Hanging out with them will help you in making new friends and in nurturing your creative side. This will help you to restore your creative juices. For this, you can either join a photography class or community in your locality, or you can join an online photography lecture. You can search them on social platforms like Instagram or Facebook.

5. Try other types of art
Just because you are a photographer does not mean that you cannot find inspiration from other fields of art. Hence, if looking at other people’s photographs is doing nothing for you, then maybe look at some other field of art that can inspire you. Plus, this act won’t feel like work and it will also help you in getting a break. Now, for applying this, there are a number of things that you can do. You can pick up some books by a writer that you like and look at his quotes. Sometimes the quotes can give you an idea, and light that flicker of inspiration in your soul. Or maybe, if you would prefer a more visual means, then you can watch a movie or tv show to feel inspired. The creative ways in which they use the camera will give some motivation.

So, these are some means that people can use to handle stress creatively. Just remember, while working it out you don’t need to get all worked up about finding a way to de-stress or that would just add to your anxieties.

All the best!