Stress Management, Ways to Reduce Stress

Q9. What is meant by "Stress"? What are the ways to reduce the stress?
Stress is the "wear and tear" our bodies experience as we adjust to our continually changing environment; it has physical and emotional effects on us and can create positive or negative feelings. As a positive influence, stress can help compel us to action; it can result in a new awareness and an exciting new perspective. As a negative influence, it can result in feelings of distrust, rejection, anger, and depression, which in turn can lead to health problems as well as problems sprouting up in relations and work place. With a job promotion, or change in the working environment, or changes taking place in the managements or the working colleagues, changes in the principles and policies of the organization etc or even a new relationship and changes taking place in the personal live of a person all would be factors causing stress. We experience stress as we readjust our lives either at our work place or in personal lives. In so adjusting to different circumstances, stress will help or hinder us depending on how we react to it.
As we have seen, positive stress adds anticipation and excitement to life, and we all thrive under a certain amount of stress. …