Health and stress are closely connected. Your ability to deal with stress will be largely determined by the state of your health and your health is directly related to the effectiveness of your mastery over stress. Until recent past body was regarded from a mechanical viewpoint. It is now understood that our mental and emotional states directly affect our bodily function, through the direct interaction of hormones and chemical levels. An absence of disease alone is not the definition of health but true holistic health is an abundance - an overflowing of vitality and energy and this should apply to body, mind and spirit.