{"id":1892,"date":"2018-05-17T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2018-05-21T09:35:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T09:35:39","slug":"mental-health-awareness-week-relaxation-techniques-for-managing-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2018\/05\/17\/mental-health-awareness-week-relaxation-techniques-for-managing-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Awareness Week: Relaxation techniques for managing stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For Mental Health Awareness Week we are looking at ways in which we can manage and reduce\u00a0stress<\/strong>.<br \/>\nLife can be busy and hectic, and its only natural that from time to time we may start to feel the pressure mounting up.\u00a0 It&#8217;s\u00a0therefore important that we know some simple techniques that we can\u00a0use to help protect ourselves from stress.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalhealth.org.uk\/publications\/how-manage-and-reduce-stress\">Mental Health Foundation<\/a> website has some useful advice and suggests some steps to follow, one of which is \u2019taking time out to relax\u2019.\u00a0 The following\u00a0relaxation tips\u00a0will guide you through some exercises designed to relieve stress, re-focus your minds\u00a0and help\u00a0you to\u00a0relax&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/05\/Relaxation-Techniques-1.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1979\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2018\/05\/17\/mental-health-awareness-week-relaxation-techniques-for-managing-stress\/relaxation-techniques-2\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/05\/Relaxation-Techniques-1.png?fit=800%2C3433&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,3433\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Relaxation Techniques\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/05\/Relaxation-Techniques-1.png?fit=239%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1979\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/05\/Relaxation-Techniques-1.png?resize=700%2C3004&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"3004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/05\/Relaxation-Techniques-1.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/05\/Relaxation-Techniques-1.png?resize=70%2C300&amp;ssl=1 70w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/05\/Relaxation-Techniques-1.png?resize=768%2C3296&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Mental Health Awareness Week we are looking at ways in which we can manage and reduce\u00a0stress. Life can be busy and hectic, and its only natural that from time&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2258,"featured_media":1975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Relaxation techniques for managing stress for #mentalhealthawarenessweek","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,367],"tags":[578,568,577,569,347],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wellbeing","tag-breathing","tag-mental-health-awareness-week","tag-relaxation","tag-stress","tag-wellbeing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/05\/Relaxation-tips-gallery.jpg?fit=1028%2C624&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8KEAX-uw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1944,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2018\/05\/14\/mental-health-awareness-week-stress-are-we-coping\/","url_meta":{"origin":1892,"position":0},"title":"Mental Health Awareness Week: Stress are we coping?","author":"Sarah Briscoe","date":"May 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"John Freeman and Jon Painter, Mental Health Nursing lecturers in the Department of Nursing & Midwifery talk about coping with stress\u00a0for Mental Health Awareness Week. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hosted by the Mental Health Foundation, the focus of this year's Mental Health Awareness Week starting today, is stress. 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