Improve the quality of your life by reducing stress. If you try to live with unreasonable levels of stress for too long, things will come to a breaking point eventually and something will have to give. We may be strong but we are only human. If you reduce the stress now, chances are also lower you’ll try to take temporary refuge from that stress later on by eating to oblivion. Now that we’re 37 days into the BDS training, we have more techniques at our disposal to confront stress: 1. Solve the problem (either in whole or in part) using the Seven Question Technique discussed earlier. 2. Relax. Do yoga, meditate, take a hot bath, etc. 3. Change your mindset. What about your mindset might be causing you stress? You might have rigid, unreasonable rules which often have the words “should” or absolutes like “always” or “never” in them: “I should always do my best.” “I should ...