This book contains a comprehensive self-training program in stress management. It will help you to restore your sense of ease, relaxation and happiness; and your personal effectiveness and well-being. It explains what stress is, in easy to understand language: how to assess it, map it, and control it. You will encounter a range of techniques and strategies designed to increase your coping resources for dealing with stress in your life, at home and at work, and in the wider world. If you only learn one or two of those techniques, that will give you a minimal level of protection from stress. If you learn half a dozen of them, that will be like training yourself in the martial arts before going into battle every day. But if you learn a dozen or more, then that will be like putting on a suit of armour to protect yourself from external pressures. You will learn how to have enormous resilience in the face of life's pressures.