Article: Instead of breathing from your chest—taking a breath where your shoulders shrug—try breathing from your diaphragm. Imagine that your breath is coming up from your gut and expanding little air pockets all around your waist. Breathing like this with regularity, and especially in times of stress, can reduce frustration by giving you the calm to help you deal with the actual source of frustration. Taking up yoga, a practice dedicated to deep breathing and non-strenuous exercise, can be a great way to ensure that you are always able to get a good fix of muscle relaxation and serenity. A large factor in becoming easily frustrated is having lots of energy in your body that is practically seeking an opportunity to be released. If your frustration is much greater than whatever triggered it, you may want to adopt an exercise routine. Regular exercise helps boost your mood and for regulating your body’s energy so that you can broach situations appropriately rather than with too much “charge” from all your pent-up fervor for activity. Try cardiovascular exercise, like running, swimming, or biking, in addition to light weight lifting. Visualization is a relaxation technique that involves forming mental images to induce feelings of journeying to a calm, peaceful place. The key to a relaxing visualization is to involve as many of your senses as possible (sight, sound, touch, and smell). To be able to do this, get into a quiet spot where you won’t be disturbed. Your body should also be in a relaxed position as if you are meditating. For example, if you are imagining an open meadow, try to feel the grass underneath your feet, smell the lush woods, and hear the sound of birds chirping as they fly from tree to tree. This technique has you gently tensing and then relaxing each of your muscle groups. One way to do progressive muscle relaxation is to work your way up, tensing and relaxing all of your muscles from your toes and feet to your head and neck.  Tense a muscle group for about 5 seconds and then relax those muscles for about 30 seconds. Repeat this pattern until you’ve moved up your body (or down, depending on your preference). Doing this will make you able to recognize when your muscles are tensed and when they are relaxed. This is a bonus because you’ll be able to notice times when you are especially tense and take measures to either relax or rearrange your activities accordingly. Much of our frustration in modern life comes from the fact that we spend so much time interfacing with machines that are unable to respond empathically to how we’re feeling. If your life has you on the computer constantly, try to take breaks and reduce your usage where possible. Especially when it comes to socializing, being face to face rather than online can make communication easier and gratitude almost effortless in comparison. Balance your busy life on social media with some good, old-fashioned togetherness. Another source of frustration that can get taken for granted is not having enough time for yourself. At the very least, scheduling some alone time will give you a chance to learn and use relaxation techniques. Look at your agenda and try to find a window of time that will allow you to settle in with yourself. A couple of hours is ideal. Spend this time pursuing activities that feed you—things that you don’t get much of a chance to do within the normal workweek. If you have any artistic or creative hobbies, like drawing, sculpting, making music, or cooking, try to spend this time doing these activities. Creative pursuit helps you get in touch with yourself more deeply.

What is a summary?
Breathe deeply. Exercise. Use visualization. Learn progressive muscle relaxation. Take a break from the computer. Schedule “me” time.