What do YOU do about stress?

What do you think about the role of stress in your life? 

Is it something that is forced on you from outside?

Is it the way you think about events rather than the events themselves?

There is yet another report about the harmful effects of stress which contains some of the usual advice that doesn't really work if you are stressed! For example, telling someone to get a good night's sleep is not the best advice even though it would help. Typically when someone is stressed they cannot sleep well - because they are stressed...

so how do you think about the stress in your life and what do you do that works or doesn't work?