When you are diagnosed with cancer, you might experience distressful emotion. A good psychological state has a significant impact on promoting patients’ recovery in various aspects. Here are some tips for cancer patients to manage stress.
Enjoy music
Music therapy uses music and sound to help express emotions and improve emotional and physical wellbeing. Some studies find that music therapy can help people with cancer reduce their anxiety and improve quality of life. You can choose some favorite pieces of songs. Some positive songs can cheer you up and clean away your desperation. Sometimes, some sad music is also good for you to express your emotions. You can start with some melancholic songs and then choose cheerful and lively ones, and such changing tones can help turn your gloom into delight.
Take time to do relaxing activities you enjoy
Psychological distress often makes people depressed and discouraged. At this time, if you can consciously take part in some hobbies, you can forget about existing worries. Reading, yoga, or gardening are some good choices.
Create healing colors of the atmosphere
Estheticians in the behavioral study find that comforting colors can effectively boost people’s mood the way vitamins nourish human bodies. Patients who are exposed to bring and lively colors tend to have a pleasant and calming mood. You can introduce some of the following qualities of colors into your life through food, flowers, clothes, decoration, music, self-expression or painting: pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and magenta.
Exercise regularly
Exercise plays an important role in recovering cancer patients’ physical and mental health. Psychotherapists point out that oxygen-consuming exercises are effective than any other anticancer drugs in altering negative emotions. When you attempt to get rid of psychological distress, you can do some oxygen-consuming exercises such as running, fast cycling, sprinting, swimming and so on. These great oxygen-consuming sports can speed up your heartbeats, promote blood circulation and consume oxygen in the body. Exercising offers a desirable chance to boost mood and reduce stress.
