Stress Solutions

The reality is that you can’t completely eliminate stress from your life—nor would you want to, Boredom can be just as stressful in its own way as racing to mail your taxes at 11:50 p.m. on April 15. But you can change the way you react to stress. And that’s what counts, When researchers look more closely at the stress-heart disease Connection, they find it isn’t the stressor itself that’s responsible for the negative health effects, Dr, Suarez says, but how much emotion that stressor arouses. The rest of this chapter, then, will focus on techniques for coping with stress in new, healthier ways.