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Living in the corporate world means living at a fast pace. From Monday until Friday you have to face the same stressful events. By the weekends, you have to meet commitments to you family, yourself and friends from outside you workplace. During public holidays you try to find ways to effectively and usefully occupy the day. Petrol prices are up. Your car needs maintenance. It’s no longer safe to go out late at night in the parks. You have to be careful even when you are outside of the house because someone might snatch your possessions. When you’re on holiday you’re constantly worrying about your home. The list of worries can go on.

1. Practicing Meditation

The workplace is where stress management is most important. Stress happens most to people during work. There are people of different characters and personalities, simultaneous demands, chains of command, expectations, procedures, due dates, rules and work ethics, to name a few. Stress in the workplace, without proper stress management, will affect job performance and reduce job quality.

Bodies can heal, thoughts can change, but emotions rooted in the damaged past or the feared future can harm us for a long time. To manage the 5 major types of negative emotion, we need to employ the power of reason and a range of emotion-healing techniques.

When are we really free from any stressful situation? Hardly ever, except perhaps when we sleep. Everything that we do can lead to potentially stressful situations.

The teenage years are a very stressful time. Teenagers are stressed about many things, such as school, peer pressure, winning acceptance to certain peer groups, and physical appearance. Teens also go through physical and mental changes as well as possibly experiencing identity conflicts.

Living a stressed life is fast becoming something that we are getting used to. Some of the terms which were unheard of during our ancestral times – like stress management, anxiety, and self-hypnosis – no longer sound ridiculous to us in this new millenium. Our generation is 1000 times more stressed compared to our great grandparents. Only 10% of today’s stress factors are physical, with the remainder being of biological and chemical origin.