Before you can transform your life by embracing stress management and stress reduction techniques, you need to understand what stress actually is, what are the common stress triggers and how stress and anxiety can negatively impact your lifestyle and interfere with every single area of your life. We become stressed due to the hectic times that are imposed on us by modern society. Many people are simply stressed out just thinking about the common everyday life situations which are truly unavoidable. As already mentioned in the book, the key when it comes to managing stress and reducing stress is the way we react to those stressful situations. This means that the main key when it comes to managing stress and anxiety is mastering our emotional response to stressful situations. By using different mindfulness techniques and strategies, you can live a healthier, more productive life. Before we get to those strategies and techniques that will help balance your body and your mind, you need to understand what stress is, what brings stress and what can be done to feel better in those crisis times. Before you can actually learn how to manage stress, you need to understand what happens in your brain during the onset of stressful emotions and feelings are triggered. Those scales of the reaction which differ from one individual to another are known as stress responses which are mainly determined by how different individuals perceive and react to different stressful situations. The stress response is also our personal ability to cope with different stressors. By different stressful events, everyone's stress response differs as individuals perceive and cope with stress differently. This means that our stress response, in fact, determines our overall well-being, our body and mind balance. Those common life stressors can include different environmental, physical, mental as well as both real or imaginary events. When it comes to an individual's stress response, there is a physical component included which is primarily mediated via highly complex interaction between our immune, hormonal and nervous systems. Everyone has experienced some type of stressful situations. In fact, all of us have demands and obligations which will prompt different responses when it comes to those demands. However, how we act and respond to them, in fact, determines our own stress levels.