When we are very stressed our brain reverts to childhood methods of coping with stress. Unfortunately, some of these methods take too long (e.g., binge watching 10 episodes of Full House) to work well in common adult stressful situations.

You only have a few seconds or minutes in most stressful situations to get yourself through.

Here are some quick techniques that you can do anywhere, whether at home, work or in your (parked) car that will bring your stress down to an optimal level in seconds.

Stress is the single most condition that we can change in our lives and improve the quality of health, relationships, and mood.