Stress - what it is, and how to work with it

Unfortunately that doesn’t make your job easy in the mean time with clients complaining left, right, and centre, about their aches and pains and perceived stress in their lives. So what can we actually do to help them? Well lets consider one definition of stress is a subjective/relative stimulus driven activation of the sympathetic nervous system, causing a mobilisation of resources towards a fight or flight physiological reaction.