Dealing with massive stress?

[Euphoric Sunrise]

Well i can't say i've ever dealt with massive stress, but i can say that i used to be quite the negative person!
One thing i've learned is that negative energy breeds negative energy. Likewise, positive energy breeds positive energy.
So one day i just thought to myself "right, there's no need to be so sad and stressed all the time, matt! there's so much about life that you don't understand, so perk up, be happy, and start discovering!"
From then on whenever anybody asks me how i am, i tell them i'm great. I say it feel and i believe it, and it works! I am now the opposite of what i was - i'm positive! [] Aren't i great? []
Maybe it's some sort of mind programming, but it's worked for me, and i've become a different person for it.
I can't guarantee it'll work for everyone, but what have you got to lose?

[The AlphaOmega]

I meditate.  I sit and relax and think.  When I meditate I don't try and clear my mind.  Thoughts come at random.  Some are unimportant, but it's suprising how insightful you can be to yourself if you just listen to the questions and responses of your own mind.  This doesn't make any stressful situation go away at all, but each time I get a helpful idea about my life.  Also, when you are meditating, you get to focus that time on meditation and nothing else.  You don't have to worry about the stresses because they will be there when you are done.  It's getting to sit in quietness and do nothing but think for the time that you are using to meditate that makes it easier to deal with the real world.  Things like "I have to do this and this and this tomorrow, but that's tomorrow.  For now I have nothing to do but meditate."  That relieves stress for me.  Doesn't make it go away, just makes me better capable of dealing with it.

[kakkarot]

for me: stretching my body out, and then relaxing it (the stretching is important because without it my body cannot truly relaxed if i am feeling stressed), and then finding something fun(ny) to read/watch/do [|)].

also, i found this a while ago and i thought it was kinda neat. give it a try: http://www.theblessedbee.com/stress.html [8D]

~kakkarot

[Man Of Jade]

Circumstances have placed quite a bit of stress on my very recently. I'm curious what everybody does to get rid of lots of stress, this would be very good for me to know right now.