Book excerpt: Why see stress as your enemy when stress can be your best friend? Why fight stress when you can redirect stress to work for you? Why suffer from stress when you can succeed with stress? You will learn helpful ways to make stress work for and not against you. You will learn to recognize five different kinds of stress and seven solutions for stress. You will understand the difference between productive and destructive stress. • The advantages and disadvantages of stress. • The difference between helpful and hurtful stress (and how to easily tell which is which). • How to effectively cope with stress-provoking events. • How to easily use your attitude to lower your hurtful stress. • How stress arises, so you can choose whether or not to have stress. • Simple and advanced methods for dealing with stress productively. • Effective rules for living that make stress your friend instead of your enemy.