5 Ways to Hack Your Body, Eliminate Stress, And Feel Energized

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Feeling stressed is how your body and mind respond to situations and experiences that can make you sick and wreak havoc on your health.

Stress is not the body’s optimal state. Getting rid of it helps you restore your body to its relaxed and most efficient state.

Here are five things that are proven to be effective that you can do to put your body and mind in a more relaxed state at any point in time.

Take a Cold Bath to Hit Your Vagus Nerve

I’ve always enjoyed bathing in cold water, dating back to my early school days. I’d take a cold bath in the morning, even in the cold weather.

It made me feel alert and agile during the day. I recall how I used to feel feverish in the afternoon any time I had a bath with warm or hot water.

I may not have understood how a cold bath affected my health. Over the years, though, personal experiences and research have helped me discover that it’s one of the most effective ways to relieve stress.

A cold bath creates a calming effect throughout your body and reduce stress by stimulating the vagus nerve.

The vagus nerve is the longest nerve in the nervous system. It runs from the brain down to the abdomen…