Stress Busting: Your Massage Superpower

We all know that a particular stressor does not elicit the same intensity of stress response in everyone. One individual giving a public speech may respond with all the classic symptoms of stress, such as sweaty palms, racing heartbeat, and a dry mouth, whereas another will find the experience enjoyable and respond with none of […]

As we saw in looking at the definition of stress, Hans Selye borrowed the word stress from the world of engineering, but he used the term incorrectly. The response of the body should have been called strain and any factor causing the strain should have been called a stress. But because he used the word

The diversity of sources of information regarding stress has created some confusion as to the exact meaning of the term stress. There is no general consensus regarding a precise definition of stress. One reference may define stress as a stimulus that causes a response in the body, while another may define it as the response