Stress is a person s physical and emotional response to change.
The change could be anything from financial pressures to heavy traffic. Different people feel stress from different situations. Significant emotional stress can cause a specific fight or flight response from the body. As part of this response, energy is taken from the immune system, digestive system and other body systems and used to prepare the body for dealing with a threat by speeding up the heart rate, raising blood pressure and metabolic rate. In fact, studies show that heart patients can reduce their risk of a cardiac event by up to 75 percent by using healthy stress management techniques.