{"id":9900,"date":"2012-12-15T19:56:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T02:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertfagan.com\/?p=9900"},"modified":"2025-03-19T22:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:43:41","slug":"three-quick-and-fun-ways-to-rid-yourself-of-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/coaching\/life-coaching\/9900\/three-quick-and-fun-ways-to-rid-yourself-of-stress","title":{"rendered":"Three Quick and Fun Ways to Rid Yourself of Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/12\/tensionrelief.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9901\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/12\/tensionrelief-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Feeling stressed out? Here are three quick and healthy ways to rid yourself of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be kind and giving to others.<\/strong> Yes, compassion decreases stress plus a soft kind response to others dissolves their wrath.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Squeeze something.<\/strong> The physical act of squeezing releases some tension. Besides squeezing a tennis ball or sponge builds hand strength and is socially more acceptable than squeezing someone&#8217;s neck.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shake.<\/strong> This is a natural response to stress and if you watch athletes they do it to eliminate great performance-destroying stress (watch swimmers, golfers, baseball players, tennis players, track and field contestants, football players. So, swing and jiggle your arms to release your tension.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling stressed out? Here are three quick and healthy ways to rid yourself of it. Be kind and giving to&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/coaching\/life-coaching\/9900\/three-quick-and-fun-ways-to-rid-yourself-of-stress\" title=\"ReadThree Quick and Fun Ways to Rid Yourself of Stress\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":9901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2109],"tags":[5298,697624],"class_list":["post-9900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-coaching","tag-tension","tag-exercises"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/12\/tensionrelief.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18908,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9900\/revisions\/18908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}