Stress management to me means learning that the inside of my body is mine to control no matter what is happening outside of it.
Stress, stress chemistry, whatever you want to call it, is an option then, unless I need to respond quickly to a real threat.
Think driving home and someone swerves into your lane, and I bet just thinking about that brought a bit of a jangle to your body.
That jangle followed an image in your brain or maybe the very rapid recall of that kind of experience from your past, and the jangle was a stress response, or what John Gottman, Ph.D. calls DPA, or diffuse physiological arousal, and that stress response in this case followed a past or future memory, which occurred while you were reading information at your computer.
