We all struggle with stress. We know it can shorten our lives, make us age too soon, make us unhappy and unhealthy, but we can't escape it. I would like to start my article with a little description of myself. After spending years training for a career in accounting, I really had no idea about science. Although I tried to live healthy by eating right and exercising regularly, I had no idea the damage stress was doing to me, both physically and mentally. I find this course to be one of the greatest awakenings of my life. After taking this course, I realized that I tend to have excessive activity issues in ACG and BC; I experience symptoms of physical stress all the time, worry too much about the future, get stuck in negative thoughts, and have an intense aversion to change. Here is a brief report of my typical day before starting the stress management technique for this course. Stress is something I thought was a normal part of life. Even though I didn't intentionally choose to be stressed, I didn't know I had a choice in how I react to situations. However, by taking this course, I was not only able to become aware of this process, but also how to change my lifestyle. I thought I was a happy person, I really didn't realize what true happiness was until I practiced stress management for this course. The stress management technique I used for my mission was breathing and relaxation. I started my first breathing exercises with a full breath where I imagine a bottle placed inside under the tips of my hands resting. I imagined air entering through my nose and coming down to fill the inner bottle, and I slowly began... middle of paper ... finding that everything was brighter, brighter and more beautiful than the normal. Now I enjoy practicing meditation more than ever because it allows me to see things better than they really are and, more importantly, I see people nicer too. I try to maintain this calm after each meditation and take this mobile paradise into my home, on the go, to school and wherever I go. This course was a retreat for me; I changed the way I ate; I changed my self-esteem; I changed the way I felt and looked at myself; I changed my outlook on life; I have changed my thought patterns, emotional responses, and processes about how I live my life. Just to give you an idea of ​​how my behavior has changed on how I think and interact with people and events in my life, I would like to give you an account of my typical day after starting the experiment of the living laboratory. It's amazing how far this has taken me.