TIPS TO RELAX AT WORK AND AFTER WORK

This time Tips Tech Tricks presents the Relaxation tips for tech people when they are working in office and when they come from office work.

Here are 15 tips to help you relax at work:

1. Eat breakfast
   Relaxation begins before you even step into the office. Start the day off with breakfast. Aside from being nutritious, eating breakfast forces you to slow down in the morning. Eat, pace yourself, and you’ll get into work without rush-hour anxiety in your system.
   
   
2. Go to work earlier
   After a delicious meal, avoid the morning stampede and go to work earlier than others. You’ll get fewer traffic jams, phone calls, and interruptions. All this lets you get more done in a calmer environment. With this increased productivity in the morning, you can go home earlier.
3. Meditate
   Countless researchers in fancy white lab coats have shown how meditation relaxes both your mind and body. Luckily, you don’t have to be dressed in an ugly leotard and sitting at a yoga studio to reap the benefits of meditation. Try mini-meditations. Short little deep breathing exercises that take you temporarily out of your work angst. Here’s a technique to try now.
4. Breathe deeply
   Deep breathing shouldn’t be confined to meditation breaks. Every breath you take should be deep. Sadly, many of us, myself included, are unconscious shallow breathers. To kill this habit, practice deep breathing exercises often to train your body to take full breaths.
5. Invest in an ergonomic chair
   You sit in front of a computer 8 hours a day. Isn’t it worth investing in a comfortable chair to ease your body? My two favorites are the Aeron andFreedom Chair. Don’t like these? Here are alternatives.
6. Eliminate clutter
   A cluttered desk distracts, creates visual pollution, and adds to your existing stress level. Each item on your desk, however small, is something you have to think about when you look at it. Don’t make excuses, clear your desk (and virtual desktop) now. Tomorrow, it’ll feel good to come to a clean desk.
7. Wear headphones
   In noisy work environments, headphones are vital to sanity. Even if you’re not listening to music, put them on to block ambient noise. It’ll also let others know not to bother you.
8. Play music
   Of course, listening to music with your headphones on also helps you to relax. Pick something you know will put you at ease. As much as I like postmodern electronic noise, cheesy ABBA songs work like a charm.
9. Take your full lunch hour
   Make lunch sacred. This means not munching at your desk. Take your lunch outside and don’t end your lunch hour early. Here are more ways to maximize your lunch hour.
10. Take a nap
    Finish eating lunch a little early? Use the rest of your lunch hour to take a nap. While the dotcom days of nap rooms at the office are extinct, you’ve still got options: your car and, if you have a closed office, your chair. Pop in a pzizz track, set an alarm on your phone, and recharge your body.
11. Play
    If you have a hard time napping in the middle day, use the rest of your lunch hour to play. Take a walk, sketch, write in your journal, twirl, play hopscotch. Anything pleasurable as long as it’s not working and in front of the computer.
12. Turn off IM
    Chatting is not working. It only distracts, divides your attention, and increases anxiety because of the strain of “multi-tasking.” Fewer interruptions during the day means makes it easier to maximize flow, the state of being totally focused in what you’re doing. Cut out IM and bring calmness back into your work life.
13. Turn off automatic email checking
    Another culprit of stress is email. Instead of setting your email to check for new messages automatically, set it to manual. Check email only twice a day, and never ever when you first get into work.
14. Laugh
    Comic relief is a well known technique for relieving dramatic tension in movies, plays, and novels. It’s also handy during those high-anxiety moments at work. When you’re taking yourself too seriously, pop-up your favorite silly YouTube video and have a laugh. My favorite is Shoes.
15. Get a new job
    If none of the above works, maybe its time to simply quit your job.
    Yes, it’s always exhausting after office. Documents, reports, audits, meeting, handling complaints, and many more just happen from day to day at work. You must be very upset of these routines sometimes. 8 hours is not short for a day, more over 10 – 12 hours. Knowing how to relax after office is therefore inevitable. The rest of time after office can be spent best in order to meet certain condition of mind and psychology by which we will get recovered as soon as tomorrow’s coming.
    There are several simple things that you can do to refresh and relax after work. They are mostly neglected due to either certain and uncertain reasons. Here you some tips how to relax after office.
    1. Take a shower.
    No body denies that taking a bath makes fresh and clean our body. Warm water can be the good option to go with. It will need few minutes to prepare. For those who live with heating machine by which warm water is easily provided feel much more convenient to do. Therapeutic flavor helps contribute to better relaxation during this moment.
    2. Have your favorite dinner.
    To cook for dinner takes time and bothers when exhausting all day office work came first. Just order for your favorite dinner from certain restaurant or alike by which you can enjoy it at home. If necessary, you can just go to a nice restaurant where you usually have a good time with someone you love. Why not if for a better soul and comfort?
    3. Sleep longer.
    No wonder. Some of hard workers spend their after office hours for continuing to work still. It does not support much the convenience of psychology mostly. Remember that energy perform best when it’s on the right timing. Go to sleep to release the stress and bored mood. Spend longer time for sleeping. You will find your self better than you normally do when forcing to still work after office.
    4. Drink some tea
    Tea is very helpful to relax. Professionals or private employees who spend 8 hours and so at work will have a better impression after drinking a cup of tea. It helps relax our blood circulation and makes more comfort our respiratory. Give it a try.