Get in Touch With Your Stress Today!

Perhaps it was the big check you wrote out yesterday. Or the scramble to get to the post office to get said check postmarked in time. Perhaps it's the endless demands of jobs and family. Maybe it's just become a way of life.

If you're stressed, then you've got a reason to have a celebratory cocktail today: April 16 is National Stress Awareness Day.

Oh, wait. National Stress Awareness Day was established in 1982 and has been sponsored yearly by the Health Resource Network, a nonprofit health organization, to encourage healthy ways of dealing with stress.

All right, forget the cocktail. Perhaps a nice walk in the mountains -- or around the parking lot -- instead? Perhaps you should slip into a meditation class between those endless meetings or errands? Or maybe just meditate briefly about the future prospect of learning to meditate. (MORE)

Source: LA Times