I've had too many discussions over the last two weeks with peoplel who think that they are suffering from stress. You might say to yourself "Well maybe they really are suffering from stress" - but that's my point, nobody suffers from stress - they just think that they do.

Stress is created by your own over-active subconscious mind. Sure, the resulting symptoms can be as real as hell - and you'll find all sorts of pills to pop to deal with those symptoms. But none of them gets at the root cause - that you're not in control of your own mind. Instead, your mind controls you. It creates your perception of what's happening and dictates your reactive behaviour. And regardless of outrageous you feel your own behaviour might be, you feel powerless to stop it.

Don't worry. Don't give yourself something else to be stressed out about! You're normal. Years of research prove that the normal mind is crazy.

But because the stress that you think you're suffering from isn't real, you, yourself have a wonderful opportunity to stop it. In fact, only you can. Time to take control of your own mind and show it who's boss.