Letting emotions build up within you is not healthy and is liable to lead to anxiety, depression and a host of physical diseases. While women have always been known for their urge to communicate their emotions, most men still believe that men are supposed to refrain from showing their emotions.
An expression of your feeling is one of the highly recommended ways to relieve stress. Talking things over with the person involved in causing you stress usually resolves matters.
If you are excessively worried about something, communicating your fears to a trusted friend helps in overcoming worry. This is where your communicating skills play a part in expressing your inner feelings correctly.
Another link between communication and stress is presented when you are under stress. Stress brings about changes in behavior and style of communicating. A stressful situation is liable to change your normal cool and sedate style to one that is overtly aggressive or extremely submissive.
Our rationality tends to get blocked when we cross the threshold level of stress. The correct way of knowing this is to ask others about the change that they see in you when you move from a normal situation to a stressed one.
Communication is not only about the tone and pitch of your voice but also about how well you explain things and how good a listener you are. Irrespective of whether you are talking of something pleasant or something that has irritated you never use a negative style while communicating. Be positive and avoid using ‘did not’ or ‘don’t’.
Do not blame others and try not to evaluate other people’s behavior or sit judge and jury over their actions. Say things freely and frankly but make sure to listen to the other person’s reaction coolly and calmly before you calmly counter what was said.
The content about what you talk or communicate is as important as the style in which you communicate. If you talk in general terms it likely to be misread. Being specific always helps in communicating your feelings correctly.
Your body language is another way of communication. Non-verbal communications are just like pictures and as they say a picture is worth a thousand words.
How well you listen to others works to show your respect to the other person’s feelings. Give him/her your undivided attention and do not interrupt. Even if you do not agree, keep your opinion to yourself till the time the other person has finished. This is very important because if you do not hear out, for example, your child or a colleague, it is liable to lead to misunderstanding and cause stress.
Daily stress is detrimental to health and in the modern society it is practically impossible to avoid stress. The way you communicate with your friends, colleagues, family and children plays a significant role in managing stress.
Reference:
http://www.nwhealth.edu/healthyU/chillOut/comskill.html
http://www.positivearticles.com/Article/Communication-and-Self-Management-to-Reduce-Stress/19078
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