In our understanding, stress is the psycho-organic state produced by the mismatch between the individual's potential and the challenge they need to face. Stress is the consequence of the psychophysical effort to face the obstacle. To manage stress, we try to increase the practitioner's energy, so that their potential rises and they can face the challenge from top to bottom.

Stress in itself is not a bad thing. Without it, the human being would be vulnerable and would not be able to fight, work or create with the necessary energy. What is bad is the excess of stress or the lack of control over it.

Between one psychophysical alert and another, the person would be able to recover from this state of extreme organic and mental tension. For this, it would be necessary that there be less frequency of the state of tension or, then, specific techniques to minimize the resulting generalized fatigue and that produces a chain reaction of secondary effects such as heart attack, high blood pressure, migraine, insomnia, depression, nervousness, drop in productivity, hair loss, herpes, digestive problems, ulcer, gastritis, sexual impotence, back pain and the worst of all health problems: the doctor's bills!

Just reduce stress to also alleviate all its effects, which, otherwise, would hardly yield to a definitive solution. They would be merely palliative measures or a masking of the symptoms.

The DeRose Method has in its collection several efficient resources to reduce stress to healthy levels. This opinion is shared by a good number of doctors who recommend this method to their stressed patients.

For this reason, there are many entrepreneurs, executives, artists and liberal professionals who seek, in the DeRose Method, the extra dose of energy and dynamism they need, but, at the same time, the control of stress.

Ninety percent of people feel the effects of combating stress already in the first session of our method. Our techniques and social activities stimulate oxytocin, which is a hormone produced in the hypothalamus. With its stimulation, levels of cortisol (stress hormone) decrease in the body.

From the pocket book Stress
Professor DeRose, Egrégora Books