How do you handle stress?

Thanks Tamer for your feedback.

Stress is the body's natural defense against predators and danger. It flushes the body with hormones to prepare systems to evade or confront danger. This is known as the "fight-or-flight" mechanism.

When we are faced with a challenge, part of our response is physical. The body activates resources to protect us by preparing us either to stay and fight or to get away as fast as possible.

The body produces larger quantities of the chemicals cortisol, adrenaline, and noradrenaline. These trigger an increased heart rate, heightened muscle preparedness, sweating, and alertness. All these factors improve the ability to respond to a hazardous or challenging situation.

So Anish, just enjoy it as Stress can be a motivator. It can be essential to survival

I have had to deal with this for most of my career and with varying degrees depending on the role I have and the organisation that I work working with. Stress is a fact of life, but our stress thresholds are important. It's also important to note that the aggregate of stress in our life can result in poor health, and subsequently poor performance at work and in our personal lives. Stress is a serious subject. The aggregate affect of smart phones, computers, emails, meetings, traffic, poor diet, sedentary lifestyles, ambient noise, pollution, corporate offices (cube farms) and poor organisational governance can literally break us down one day at a time until we are depressed, overweight, and just plain miserable. Not to mention the impact of world events, politics etc. All of these things can add up and if we don't make lifestyle choices, often difficult choices we may continue to decline mentally and physically. Part of the solution for me is first to acknowledge the stress and look at it for what it really is and it's causes. Once I can identify the source(s) of the stress, I can begin making choices and taking action that lead to my wellness, which results in happiness, fulfilment and a much better performance at work and in my personal life. I would recommend this book highly to anyone open minded enough to read it. It has literally validated things I knew about my stress, body, and mind and what to do about it. The book is called Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Best of luck, keep breathing and take care of yourself first so that you and others will benefit from your wellness.

As PM's we need to handle stress effectively or else it may lead to lower performance, health issues etc.

Stress is the worst enemy of anyone. There is a point where you need to step out of it .
There are many techniques to deal with it but I found that stepping out of the situation if possible is the best.. unhooked yourself and naturally you adapt to it.