what is stress management.. ? and how can we manage it? explanation please?

Find positive outlets for your angst. Mine’s gardening for instance. Cleaning the kitchen or bathroom works in a pinch too. Put your energy into doing something you can do something about rather than dwell on the past or future.

Stress management is the combination of activities and approaches to controlling the amount of stress in our lives.

Stress is caused by stressors… things that bring stress. These can by physical stressors (being sick with a cold, or weary with exhaustion). Or, the stressors can be in our heads (anxiety over a test or job interview, problems with a long-distance relationship, etc.)

In this web-page that I wrote a while back, I describe the process of 1) reducing the number of stressors, then 2) managing the stressors that are left over, then 3) learning to cope with the stress that remains after the first two steps.

There is also an excellent definition of stress, a list of common stressors, a description of the human stress response, and many other resources…

http://www.christian-life-coaching.org/stress-management.html

I hope this helps,

-James Thomas
Stress Management Coach