Stress is a normal physical response to events that makes one feel upset in some way or the other. In today’s modern world, life is so full of hassles, deadlines and demands that stress has become a mode of life. People usually think of stress as a negative experience. According to biological point of view, stress can be a neutral, negative, or positive experience. It is not always bad and it can help individuals to perform well under pressure. But a person constantly running in the emergency mode, is sure to harm one’s mind and body. It is thus essential to balance and manage stress in a positive way to lead a healthy life in body, mind and spirit.

Modern living has brought with it, not only immeasurable means of comfort, but also an overabundance of demands that tax human body and mind. Nowadays, everyone talks about stress. It is prevalent across all socioeconomic groups of population. Not only just high pressure executives are its key victims but it also includes laborers, slum dwellers, working women, businessmen, professionals and even children.

Stress is the anticipated and unavoidable element of life due to ever-increasing complexities and competitiveness in living standards. The speed of change in humankind today is certainly overwhelming and breathtaking. In the fast changing world of today, no individual is free from stress nor is any profession stress-free.

Everyone experiences stress, whether it is within the family, business, organization, study, work, or any other social or economic activity. Thus in modern times, stress in general and job stress in particular has become a part of life and has received considerable attention in recent years.

Stress has become the core concern in the life of everyone, but everybody wants a stress-free life. Stress is a subject which is hard to avoid. Stress is a part of day-to-day livelihood. Every individual is subjected to stress either deliberately or unsuspectingly. Stress, unknown to Indian lifestyle, but now it’s a major peril.

Stress is difficult to define precisely. The concept of stress was first introduced in the life sciences (Selye Hans in 1936). It was derived from the Latin word ‘stringere’; it means the experience of physical need, malnourishment, agony and pain. Stress means “the non-specific response of the body to any demand placed upon it”. Further, stress was defined as “any external event or internal drive which threatens to upset the human being stability” (Selye Hans, 1936).

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