Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it.
The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.