How to navigate financial stress like a pro? Here are tips and tricks

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stress. A number of different situations around personal money can cause individuals’ persistent worry.

The stress of repaying a large sized housing loan, the stress of not earning enough to qualify for a large loan you need to buy a house, the stress of losing your job, the stress of not being able to change a low paying job, the stress of medical expenses, the stress of not being financially as independent as your sibling, the stress of being a non-earning member of the family, the stress of being the only earning member of the family and the list can go on and on and on.These kinds of situations can become responsible for a daily dose of anxiety which then shows up as weight gain or back pain or mood swings and unnecessary arguments. It’s proven that sustained stress alters physiological systems in the body and impacts immunity too.

If you too are going through a stressful money situation, wouldn’t you like to find a way out?Financial stress is common. We have all faced it at some stage in our lives.

It may be short lived for some and may persist for others. When it persists, you get to thinking whether the problem lies within; are you guilty of making wrong choices, repeatedly?When we talk about acknowledging the role of money matters in causing unmanageable or persistent anxiety, the idea is not to encourage taking the blame for it.

At the same time, there is merit in acknowledging that the responsibility for any change lies solely with you.Let’s say you have been recruited by a firm for a particular type of job, but a week into this job you realise that most of your time gets used up in doing something completely different. It’s not what you are keen to do, nevertheless, you don’t protest because you’re new in the