Understanding Stress in the Modern Context

While some stress is essential for human function, chronic stress creates a cascade of physical changes throughout your body: 

• Heart problems: high risk for high blood pressure, heart attack, and stroke. 
• A weak immune system, leaving you vulne...

The support of family and friends is a vital element in handling stressful situations. 

• Seeking, and giving support is a powerful way to manage the stress in your life and boost your resilience. This includes listening to and emphasizing with a friend, mentoring, and v...

Our mind may be the key tool in handling stress. And it needs rest to recover and handle the stressful situation in a better way.

• Meditation: Our mind is an emotional muscle, and meditation is the tool to make it rest and restore itself. Contro...

Sudden and acute stress can shutdown our appetite temporarily as a stress-response mechanism, but chronic stress (anxiety, worry) can increase our appetite.

Mindful eating, which involves eating slowly and relishing every bite, while being aware of the food that is ...

Regular exposure to stress in small quantities can prepare us to handle a big stressful event in our lives. Prepare yourself for stress by self-education about the stressful event, by doing some physically stressful activities like completing a marathon, or something you dread, like giving a ...