Combat Your Stress Levels and Rejuvenate Yourself with These Stress-Relief Teas (2020)!

So, as you might know, there are several different causes of stress. The first one being your personal relationships. It could be conflict with your partner or it could be that your partner is suffering from any particular problem(health, work-related etc), you will naturally get stressed out. Stress also happens when we have troubled relationships with our parents or our kids. It could also be due to strained relationships at work either with your boss or your colleagues.

Another major cause of not just stress but also anxiety and various other health conditions can be your financial status. You might be having a lot of income with low pay or you might not even have a job. But if you're not happy with your financial condition, it will cause stress. This can, directly and indirectly, affect your stress levels. For instance, directly, you won't be able to afford to buy necessary things and, indirectly, you will worry about not being able to get your children the education they need.

Work, being another major cause of stress nowadays, is affected by various factors. For instance, the more time that you spend working, the more stressed out you will feel. Also, job insecurity can cause you to worry, having similar effects while having disrespectful employers and colleagues will also add to your stress and anxiety levels. Other than that, as you might know, working at a job that is boring and doesn't really excite you can also greatly add to your stress.

What you might never have thought about was how your parents' parenting style might add to your stress levels. So, the children with parents that adopt either authoritarian and uninvolved parenting styles are often more stressed out than those without such parenting styles.

So, in other words, the children with parents that are too strict or don't care at all about what their children are doing seem to have more stressed children. Those who explain why they are doing what they are or let the children figure out their decisions themselves have calmer children with lower stress levels.

As you feel tensed and depressed with high levels of stress, you will be able to notice that you will not want to have sex as much. In fact, you may even feel the fleeing of love to have been reduced and your life won't feel as exciting even in similar situations. Also, since the mind plays a great part in the process of sexual excitation, it feeling low will greatly interfere. While sometimes you may have problems with erecting, at others, it may not work altogether.

Even though this is not a direct result of stress, stress is a major cause of it. So, because it will greatly add to your depression as well, it can also lead to other behavioral problems. For instance, feeling like you do not have a place in this world and that you are of no use can actually lead you to use drugs, proving this to actually be the truth.

Other than that, tobacco or drug use, even if just for a bit, can provide you a feeling of calm. If not, it may even just cause you to not feel anything at all, again helping not feel stressed up at least.

If your stress levels increase to too high and it persists for longer periods of time, it can even weaken your immune system. This will have even severe problems like various infections and diseases. Other than that, stress is also known to be a major factor in the problem of a heart attack. So, stress can directly cause high blood sugar levels and high blood pressure. This can, in turn, over longer time periods, lead to severe damage to the arteries that provide oxygen and other nutrients to the heart muscles, the coronary arteries, resulting in a heart attack.

This first tea is a great choice if you want to fight not only stress but also headaches, migraines, digestive upsets, and seasonal energies. Also, it will help provide better energy levels and will require about two cups of water, twenty fresh crushed mint leaves, two teaspoons of honey, and a couple of lemon slices.

To make it, start by adding water to a small pot and bringing it to a simmer. Now, add the mint leaves before turning off the heat. Let the leaves steep for fifteen minutes and follow by straining into a cup, mixing in a teaspoon of honey per cup, and squeezing in some lemon before serving warm.

Chamomile tea, again, will not only help with stress but will also improve your sleep quality, promote digestive health, protect against cancer, and help with blood sugar as well as heart health. In order to make this tea, you will need about two cups of water, three teaspoons of dried chamomile, and some honey according to your taste.

Once you have the tea, start by heating some water in a saucepan, over high heat. Once it is boiling, add the chamomile and turn off the heat before steeping for a minute. Next, strain it into a cup and mix in some honey and serve warm.

Kava is known as a food that greatly helps with the calming and relaxation of the brain. It will also induce a feeling of happiness and relieve pain, all helping to reduce stress. To make the Kava Tea, you will require about one Kava tea bag, one cardamom, one cinnamon stick, and half a cup of water.

Start making the tea by adding water to a saucepan. Now, heat it on high heat till the water is boiling before adding in cinnamon and cardamom and boiling for another two minutes. Next, steep the tea bag for some time and sieve it into a small cup before serving warm with some dates.

Lavender is not only known to help calm you and release stress but also helps with benefits, health, and hair. For instance, it removes blemishes, helps with blood pressure, relieves asthma, promotes hair growth, and fights fungus-related problems. To make the recipe, you will need to have four tablespoons of culinary lavender buds and eight cups of boiling water.

So, start making the tea by boiling the water. Now, in another pan, pour the lavender buds and add the water over it before steeping for ten minutes. Next, strain it into a cup and add in some honey or sugar before serving warm with some snacks.

Passionflower is such an amazing ingredient that it is used to relieve anxiety and stress just before surgery and is also known to be helpful against ADHD as well as pain. In order to make tea with this, all that you will need is one and one one-third cup of water, two teaspoons of dried passion flower, and one teaspoon of valerian root.

To make the tea, simmer the water before adding in the valerian root. Now, cover it and simmer on low heat for another half an hour before removing the heat and adding in the passionflower. Next, steep for another half an hour and strain into a cup before serving warm.

With the literal meaning of 'smelling like a horse', this particular tea is meant to provide the energy and strength like that of a horse. It will also help calm your nerves and relieve pain, all helping greatly with stress. To make the recipe, you will be requiring about one cup of water, one teaspoon of ashwagandha roots, half a lemon, and some honey.

To get started with the tea recipe, again, boil the water in a saucepan before adding in the roots and cutting off the flame. Now, steep the tea for fifteen minutes and strain it into a cup of your choice. End it off by adding the lemon and honey before serving warm.

With a rich rosy flavor, this tea with help bring happiness and calm you to great extents while also helping relieve any pain that you might have, all adding towards reducing the stress and anxiety levels that you are facing.

To make it, get two tablespoons of Rhodiola roots, one tablespoon of honey, and two wide-mouth quart jars. Start the recipe by boiling one quart of water before pouring this over the roots. Now, steep for about twelve minutes and follow by gently mixing and then straining it over the second jar. Now, let it cool for a bit before adding in the honey and stirring well. Lastly, pour it into the cups of your choice and serve warm.

Fennel seeds are a mixture of various essential nutrients needed to boost various important functions of your body, helping improve your health greatly. To make this tea, you will be needing about one tablespoon of fennel seeds, half an inch of ginger piece, about two cups of water, and one teaspoon of honey.

To make the fennel seeds recipe, start off by crushing the fennel seeds in a mortar, with a pestle. Now, gently crush the ginger and start the actual making process by heating the water in a pot. Next, add the ginger as well as the seeds before removing the heat after a few minutes, and straining it into a serving cup. After this, add the honey and mix well before serving warm.

Ginseng tea, also known as the insam chai, is a Korean tea that greatly helps calm you and will also help prevent aging of the skin, boost brain function, improve erectile dysfunction, improve the immune system, and even help with blood sugar levels, all helping reduce stress levels.

To make the tea, you will need some honey according to your taste, five cups of water, and eight slices of ginseng root. Now, there are two different methods for making this tea. The first can be made by shaving the root and putting it into a tea ball before steeping for five minutes, straining into a cup, and adding in the honey.

For the second, peel the root and make eight slices before coating them with honey and placing them away for fifteen minutes. Now, pour hot water over it and steep for ten minutes. Lastly, strain it into a cup and enjoy warm.

In case you want the combined benefits of various types of herbs, we should suggest that you give this last tea a try. To make this Mixed Herbal Tea Recipe, you will be needing about one cup of water, one-quarter of an ounce of lemon balm, one-quarter of an ounce of chamomile, and the same of passionflower and rosebuds.

To make it, start by mixing all the herbs well together before adding one teaspoon of the mixture to a tea bag. When actually making the tea, boil one cup of water and add in one of the tea bags before steeping, adding in honey if you want, and serving it warm, with dates.

Moving on to some other tips that might help with stress, the very first one would be various breathing exercises. For the first, lie onto a bed and deeply breathe in through your nose, letting the air fill your belly before letting out the same way. During this, place one hand on the chest and the other onto the belly, ensuring that the one on the belly moves more.

For the other one, close your eyes and take deep breaths. During all these, remember to actually feel that the air is coming in is full of calm and peace while the air leaving is taking all the stress and tension away with it, and say a phrase like 'I breathe in calm and peace' alongside.

Music can really provide a feeling of calmness, help ease your nerves, boost the brain, and even relieve you of tension within, thus reducing stress. However, for this particular tip, you will have to keep a couple of things in mind. Firstly, you should not listen to music on high volume levels or it might not be helpful. Secondly, the music should be calm, rather than rock or so. Also remember that the music that you listen to should not be depressing, even if it is soft. If you are watching video songs, the video should also be soft with peaceful backgrounds.