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You should know your enemy. One of the essential parts of stress management is knowing what stress is, what it can do to you and what it feels like.

Do some research

I have some information on my own web site but there is plenty of other places you can get good information about stress. Why not ask your human resource people where you work what they have about stress.

Stress comes from the brain

Just in case you can’t be bothered to look anything up my top thing you should know is that stress comes from the brain.

Any stress you feel has its origins in your mind. The way you think about the world has a profound influence on the amount of stress you experience.

I once met someone with a degenerative disease (she was slowly become crippled) who had recently had a very serious operation and whose husband had died about six months before. She had every reason to be stressed. But while I can’t say she was very happy she was coping remarkably well with her problems and although she topped many of the stress tables she was in fact quite relaxed. It was her view of life that made all the difference.