Stress, Lies and Videotape (Secret #1)

"Protecting yourself from the media blitz of bad news about your life"

Secret #1 "Stress happens"

Stress has become on all-purpose gimmick to get our attention. Many magazines and TV shows love nothing more than suggesting that we can't make it through the day without practically dying from stress. Yes, we all have stress. But not all day, not every day. I find it downright insulting to hear that we can't keep it together when we're merely going about our good, if sometime complicated, lives.
The newest research says that the best way to handle stress is not by checking into a day spa or anything else where the end goal is stress reduction. That sort of binge-and-purge approach does little to keep us relaxed. Instead, we should simply acknowledge that life is full of little tensions because, hey, that's life. And we should handle it moment by moment the way people always have, by taking a deep breath and getting some perspective.