Stress management

Psych in Medicine. Stress Management. For some reason I was just able to get into things. The relaxation music, the matras and chants...relaxation is a state of mind and cannot be willed. They talked of how stress influences physiology, cardiac pathophysiology, etc. Heck - life is an eternal struggle, and while stress can be both an adaptive and maladaptive response, I do not believe that it can truly be controlled or learned. People tend to think I have a natural, positive, disposition - I personally don't see it myself. I'm just as tense and anxious as any other person, but somehow it doesn't show. All this hocus-pocus on stress relief - while it might work for some, I feel is really nothing more than lying to oneself. Denying the honest truth that life is an eternal struggle. Now tell me I'm always positive.