Pacifica Senior Living: 5 Tips to DESTRESS

Life has been a little more stressful for many people over the past year. Along with the “pandemic” which we’re all growing tired of, many people have added stress-related issues and disappointments.

Here are a few tips to help you cope, relax and find inner peace:

#1 Take Time for Yourself
It might be difficult, but carving out time to relax, take a bath, take a walk or simply shut yourself off in a separate room for 10 minutes to do deep breathing exercises can reduce anxiety significantly and over time. You will most likely notice that these personal care methods will help you to become calmer throughout the day. It’s important to take breaks from social media and news outlets, because these often add to our stress response and can intensify negative feelings.

#2 Get Moving
With closure and limitations in going to the gym or our favorite yoga studio, most people can benefit from taking a brisk 30-minute walk, bike ride, or doing any type of exercise in doors via YouTube. The good news is those options are all free with the exception of internet service. Exercise increases circulation, reduces stress, it also improves nutrient and oxygen rich blood flow, and helps you build strength. If you can work out harder, it’s extremely beneficial to get your heart rate up daily with cardiovascular exercise.

#3 Meditation & Prayer
Yoga helps to improve flexibility, blood flow, muscle strength, posture, immune function, bone health, decreases depressive episodes, and can regulate blood pressure. Meditation and prayer also reduce stress and anxiety, and promotes emotional wellbeing, which can help fight addictions, generate health and improve immune function, and it can stave off memory disorders and increase neuronal plasticity.

#4 Sleep
The body produces cytokines, which are protective proteins that block infection and inflammation. When a person gets the recommended, uninterrupted seven to nine hours of sleep, cytokines are produces. Without quality sleep, they are significantly less. Blue light is a significant cause of circadian rhythm interruptions. Blue light emits wavelengths that contribute to sleep disturbances.

Blue light comes from artificial lighting and electronics like fluorescent and LED lightbulbs, laptops, mobile phones, iPad, television, some alarm clocks, fiber-optic cable boxes, and other devices that use blue light. The issue is that blue light makes your brain think that it’s still daytime, which makes it difficult to fall and stay asleep. Blue light disrupts the circadian rhythm and natural sleep cycles, specifically, the delta and beta wavelengths, leading to increased activity in the brain, less relaxation and exacerbates stress and anxiety.

#5 Combining Methods is Best
In order to overcome stress, we need a well-rounded treatment protocol that incorporates, medication (if necessary), stress management, nutrition, high-quality sleep, exercise, meditation, hormone balancing and other therapies that can help to stabilize our systems.

When to Seek Help
If your stress or anxiety are lingering, you should take steps to get treatment. Stress can show itself both physically and mentally. If you feel persistently sad, anxious, or on edge; you start having unexplained physical problems; you’re unable to sleep; feel irritable all the time; or just feel overwhelmed, it may be time to seek help.

Pacifica Senior Living is Like a Never-Ending Vacation
On the job or at home, you’ve worked hard all your life. Now, it’s your time to enjoy retirement living to the fullest. No grass to mow or home repairs to tend to – simply relax and focus on the things you love to do. It all starts with selecting a luxurious and carefree Assisted Living apartment home.

PACIFICA SENIOR LIVING OCALA
At Pacifica Senior Living Ocala, you will find an award-winning community that is designed to give seniors in both Assisted Living or Memory Care a lifestyle that makes the most of these golden years. In our community, retirement isn’t the end, but the next step in a grand adventure that is still filled with excitement and fun, while recognizing the need our residents have to relax and be cared for. We want to be more than the place that our residents live, we want to be the place they call home, and we work every day to make sure that happens.

Pacifica Senior Living understands that along with providing the best patient care, providing the entire family the support and education they need is essential for enhancing understanding and contentment for families.

Brand New State of the Art Memory Care Facility Coming Soon
Pacifica Senior Living is proud to announce the newly anticipated memory care facility within our Ocala community. To keep your loved ones safe and to provide them with all of the training, healthcare, daily activities assistance and warm care necessary, Pacifica Senior Living has a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to those with neurodegenerative disorders and cognitive decline.

If you would like to learn more about life at Pacifica Senior Living Ocala, please give us a call today, or schedule your own private, personalized tour and see what makes us great for yourself! We look forward to meeting our new neighbor.

PACIFICA SENIOR LIVING OCALA
(352) 414-2507
www.PacificaOcala.com