A close network of friends and family members, hopeful personality, love for others,regular diet and exercise go a long way to prevent undue stress. That brake is unconscious tension or stress. We have worked and played in a tense situation for so long, that we regard it as normal. We fail to notice the clenched jaw, the tight abdomen, the constricted muscles. This fatigue burns up our energy, impairs our skills and prevents us from enjoying the world.
Breathing furnishes the most valuable control for toning down the degree of excitement in the body.
If you find your heart hammering away like a sledge-hammer and your breath coming nervously and fast, keep on breathing fast deliberately. Take as many as 100 deep breaths till you get tried, and it will come as a relief to breathe slowly. You should also concentrate on breathing and feel the cool air enter the back of your throat and lungs. Soon the sinking, nervous feeling will disappear. Another method is to deliberately tense your muscles in turn, starting from the neck down t the feet, After tensing them, let the muscles relax by themselves.