Diploid said:

The same goes for psychological stress. The trick is knowing how to manage it.

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The effective way to manage psychological stress when it arises is to become aware of it and to resolve the initial cause of stress - to use it to transcend it.

Mental stress may be a catalyst for growth, yet is unnecessary if one comes to realize that they are capable of consciously choosing responses to situations or events that one would cause oneself stress over. Stress is only an impediment to our ability to act. One can effectively make decisions as to how one will act without an obstructive experience of strain. Someone who is stressed is more seperated from reality as it can be directly experienced. Someone who is stressed at work, for example, will likely not be as productive in their work. One can be centered in an open, perceptive state of being and, being more aware of the nature of reality as it directly occurs, be more capable of interacting with reality in a manner that will serve one's preferences, as one is more aware of what one is interacting with.

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People often stress out over things out of their control. That's counterproductive. It accomplished nothing.

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Stressing out about things that are within one's realm of influence is counterproductive as well. If one can influence a situation for one's better, then why would one stress out about it?

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There's a saying: grant me the strength to change the things I can and the wisdom to accept the things I can't.

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It doesn't say anything about degrading one's present experience of life by stressing about the things that one can change, as you were proposing earlier.

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So, is something stressing you out? Auto insurance maybe?

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Icelander said:

Yep, without stress there is no evolution.

Unrelieved stress is a killer. It does in the adrenals and kidneys. Next comes death.

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Icelander said:

You feel stress because you have to defend the fact that you work at Wal-Mart. It must be unrelenting.

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I don't defend anything, as there is no reason to. I enjoy my work and feel that the stores truly serve the community.

Diploid said:

Chill out! Life is too important to take it so seriously.

Seriously!

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Did you read any of the rest of my post? I elaborately explained how I have started to become aware of underlying tension and stress, and how I am beginning to resolve the sources of it. Its a path of awareness. I'm perfectly chill.