We don't even think about , let alone pass on to someone else, its mindful application to creating for ourselves lives that work - at home and at the office. We're confident in our ability to assess and manipulate the externals and to make a difference in results. Not only are we not trained in them, we have for decades been discouraged from even noticing them. Get those internal messengers to 'therapy', we're told. Many of us experience our inner workings as dysfunctional and adversarial, best avoided at any cost.
Stress is an inside job, an internal response to an external cue.
Those who feel less stress are those whose internal responses leave them feeling resourceful, competent, knowing that they can choose intelligently and safely. The experience of safety is the experience of knowing I can stand firmly in my own truth and handle the consequences. For our lives to change, we must be both willing and able to change them. Physical symptoms are messengers that become impossible to ignore over time, simply because the body deteriorates. Power can't be imposed from the outside in.