If you sense that your stress is cause for your attention, it may be time to let your heart become your compass. Whatever you are noticing, is a wake- up call of a need for looking at what is happening within you. You can pause momentarily, put your hand on your heart, close your eyes and listen to what it is telling you. This takes practice and has immense benefit. You may later benefit from assessing your employment, or your relationships, or other aspects of your life as associated with your stress. Perhaps you need to focus on changing any stressful situation somehow. Implementing relaxation techniques could be used as soon as you become aware of your sense of stress. This may help you feel more grounded. Eventually you can to look at the effectiveness of your coping skills. Perhaps the development of additional coping skills could help. The urgency of the need to decrease stress is to decrease development of subsequent chronic medical conditions caused by chronic stress.
When you say you are stressed? How do you know that you are stressed?
Where do you feel the stress?
How do you relieve your feeling of stress?
What else can you do?
Think of a time you felt stressed?
What was going on before that moment?
When you think of how you handled that moment, what else could you have done to prevent/decrease the stress?
Having multiple solutions can be helpful since no solution works for everything or in all situations. You can always change your attitude about any situation.
Preparedness is helpful for being your own best friend. Be still and listen to your heart.