There are several ways to fight stress so as to stimulate fertility. Stress has a strong influence in a person’s life and can quickly exhaust the body. While a certain level of stress is completely natural and to be expected, too much stress will make the body enter survival mode, so that it may continue to function. Part of this survival mode means making sure you’re not getting pregnant. If your end goal is achieving pregnancy, you must find a way to get rid of stress in a safe, natural way.
- 1. Reduce the stress in your life. Of course this is obvious, but it’s also easier said than done. Reducing stress is important from several points of view. It will help not just your fertility and health, but it will also improve your quality of life.
- 2. Change your way of reacting to stressful situations. When you are facing a stressful situation, there is a single thing that you can control… the way you react. Pay attention to how you react to stressful colleagues at the workplace, or to your stressful situation. Do you keep thinking about the event all night long, do you make up frightening scenarios about what might happen? Taking control of the way you react will have a huge impact on what happens inside the body when a stressful situation occurs. This requires increased attention and exercise.
- 3. Create a hobby or a habit that will help you reduce stress. Here are a few suggestions of daily practices or habits that help reduce the effects of stress on your health: make sure you sleep enough, exercise every day, meditate or do yoga, get psychological counselling, eat plants and natural supplements, do acupuncture and pray, read a book, take a hot bath, and let yourself carried away.
- 4. Use medicinal plants that help relieve stress. Chronic stress may cause hormonal imbalance, affects the health of eggs and sperm cells and reduces libido. There are a series of aromatic plants that support a healthy response to stress, feed the nervous system and support the endocrine function: St. John’s wort, salvia, rosemary, chamomile, linden, lavender, hawthorn, Maca root, etc.
In your effort of reducing and relieving the stress in your life and so as to stimulate your fertility and increase your chances of conceiving, you should try to avoid hard chemical drugs, prescribed to help people become less stressed. These drugs only conceal the feelings of stress that you’re experiencing and do nothing to help the situation. Besides, some of these drugs may even cause infertility or have a negative effect on the foetus if you happen to get pregnant.