Stress management is a process designed for identifying stress factors and learning skills to reduce the impact of stressors in todays demanding workplace.

Before entering into stress management, lets have a look at what stress is. It is the wear and tear that the body experience when it tries to adjust with the changing environment. Stress has both physical as well as emotional effects and can have positive and negative feelings on ones body. Stress can occur due to various reasons such as threat, news, illness, danger, and even due to some significant changes in one's life like the death of a loved one.

The positive side of stress is that it helps push a person to act, thus resulting in new awareness and an exciting new perspective. Unfortunately, the negative influence of stress can result in feelings of distrust, rejection, anger, and depression. This, in turn, can lead to several health problems such as headaches, insomnia, upset stomach, heart disease, rashes, ulcers, high blood pressure, and even strokes.

The increasing effect of stress has made several business organizations to start free stress management programs for its employees. The stress management consists of various techniques designated to equip a person in dealing with psychological stress. These techniques can reduce anxiety and help in stress relief. The first and the foremost step to stress management technique is to understand why mind sticks on to earlier incidents.

There are various techniques involved in stress management. They are self-understanding, self-management, conflict resolution, self-talk, positive attitude, exercise, meditation, autogenic training, breathing, diet, rest, and stress balls. These set of techniques help a person to overcome emotional problems, improve behavioral skills and emotional control. Proper management of time can also reduce stress. In more serious cases, hypnosis and self-hypnosis are some of the new therapies developed for relieving stress.