Stress is a fight or flight response. Our body gets ready to either fight or run away. In modern society this mis-fires and we don’t do either.
Our body responds to stress by releasing adrenaline and cortisol. The fastest way to dissolve these is to exercise! So rather then stewing in these fight or flight chemicals, a 2-5 minute run, jumping jacks, push-ups, or burpees are a great way to burn up these chemicals in our body and literally dissolve our stress.
For longer term practice, create a habit of slowing down and breathing deeply whenever finding yourself starting to get in a stressful situation. We tend to take shallow breaths. Practice taking deep “belly breaths”. You can use stress as a reminder to breathe deeply.
Have baseline anxiety? Or want to retrain your body to response with relaxed vigilance instead of stress? Take a look at this article: Replace anxiety with relaxed vigilance (parasympatchetic activation)