Do you want to know how to dealing with stress while coding?
Here's some tips to do when you're feeling stressful and make mood relax.
1. Do Some Light Stretching
Stretching can be an effective strategy for preventing and alleviating stress. One way that it does so is by lengthening the muscles to relieve tension. Most of us experience a good deal of stress in our daily lives, especially us software developers during coding time. There never seems to be enough time in the day! And that stress builds up without our realizing it, creating physical and mental stiffness.
2. Step Outside And Explore Nature
Being in nature, or even viewing scenes of nature, reduces anger, fear, and stress and increases pleasant feelings. Exposure to nature not only makes you feel better emotionally, it contributes to your physical wellbeing, reducing blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, and the production of stress hormones. It may even reduce mortality, according to scientists such as public health researchers.
3. Play Your Favourite Video Games
Video games are engaging and enjoyable, which reduces stress. Gaming results in dopamine secretion, which makes you feel good. Video games present a challenge and reward you for overcoming it, which leads to feelings of competence. Gaming can create a flow state, which is similar to meditation. Video games give you instant rewards, which help to reduce the stress of achieving long term goals.
4. Call A Family Members Or Friends
When you’re feeling stressed, take a break to call a friend or your family member and talk about your problems. Good relationships with friends and loved ones are important to any healthy lifestyle. They’re especially important when you’re under a lot of stress. A reassuring voice, even for a minute, can put everything in perspective.
5. Read A Book That Inspires You
Research has shown that reading fiction is more effective at reducing stress than listening to music, sipping tea, and taking a walk. In fact, stress levels were shown to be reduced by 68 percent after reading. While your brain is engaged in the story, your heart rate slows down and muscles relax. Because there is so much work for your brain to do, reading is a very effective way to focus your energy and improve your concentration.
6. Meet Up With Your Best Friend
During stressful times, being around a best friend decreases levels of the stress hormones. Having good friends and a strong social support network can relieve stress. One study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine found that people who discussed difficult times in their lives had a lower pulse and blood pressure when they had a friend by their side.
7. Eat Your Favourite Snacks
Most of time developers continuously write codes and feel stressful, so this time take a break and eat a favourite snacks or stress relief food. While there are many ways to cope with stress, one strategy is to eat stress-fighting foods. Like Chocolate, nuts, yogurt, fatty fish, banana, carrots etc.
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I would add to that: Meditation.
It helps relief stress and anxiety, can make you more focused, you’ll have more patience and experience a whole lot of other positive effects.
@qwby , Could you please send some tutorial/books on how to start meditation? I would like to start, but I don't know how to do it. :)
Thank you in advance!
tbh I’m still a novice myself. I started some while ago with the Calm app for meditation. On the web I learned there are more forms like meditation in nature and walking meditation. I already felt positive effects just by working with the app 10 minutes a day. But as I said I’m not that informed yet myself, maybe someone else has some more interesting ideas on where to start.
Thank you very much! I will try this app.
Yup this is also useful tip
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Another tip that (usually) works for me:
If there is an error in your code and you can't figure it out and you are stressed, just code on another project for a bit and come back to your code later.
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Hello,
I'm Robert. I am just getting started with Web development, and I have found that taking a walk while listening to my favorite playlist seems to do the trick for me. If you haven't tried this exact combination, I urge you to. Tell me if it helped you too.
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Hello,
Chetan, it's been 10 days already, and I find that meeting up with your bestfriend is a really good option too. Truth is there is no best way. I believe a developer always has options. What do you think?
Sometimes you have to imagine the worst possible scenario and work back from there.
What happened if you hit rock bottom? The upside is things can only go up from there.
You got fired? Did you really like that job anyway? Did you get fired? Or were you liberated from a bad relationship?
If that doesn't work, pick up something heavy and lift it until you can stop thinking about it.
Coffee or chai would also help!
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The 3rd and 7th tips that you have mentioned for combatting coding stress are ways to give you that dopamine rush your brain needs to stay motivated on long term goals. I would like to suggest that coders exercise caution to ensure that they don't turn into bad habits. Eating banana, nuts and carrots are good for your health but the other foods you mentioned aren't if consumed regularly. Other than, these are quite good tips and I'm going to bookmark this article for future reference.
Ok thanks for your motivation 🙏
I basically just sleep or game
The best way is ofc hanging out with friends
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Awesome!
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One word: MUSIC. It helps me a lot during coding, and I keep a special playlist that I listen to during programming. Instrumental music such as classical, electro, jazz, lo-fi is perfect for setting the right conditions to get some serious work done in a calm mood. These styles of music are also thought to help you sustain your focus, so they might be perfect for coding. I normally listen to the band Twenty One Pilots, as I love their songs. Here they are: music.youtube.com/browse/VLPLekNfB...
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Good one. Thank you 💗😊.
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