The dictionary defines anxiety as a concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness. Some examples of anxiety are experience of fear, apprehensiveness, nervousness, panic, restlessness, tension, and agitation (Craig, Brown, and Baum, p.1). To understand anxiety you most know a little about stress. These two things go hand and hand with each other. Stress is the mental, emotional, and physiological response of the body to any situation that is new, threatening, frightening, or exciting
             (W. Hoeger and S. Hoeger, 2002, p.277). Every person experiences stress, due in part to the modern lifestyles we live today. The right amount of stress is beneficial and challenges us to develop our abilities. Too much stress can lead to physical illness such as: trembling, headaches, sweating, possibly elevated blood pressure, and changes in other psychopysiological induced, such as heart rate, muscle tone, and skin conductance (Craig, Brown, and Baum, p.1).
             There are two types of stress, internal and external. These types of stresses are activated by stressors. Stressors are known as an internal or external circumstance, condition, situation, or cue that has the potential to activate a physical or psychological reaction. Internal stress is also called self-generated; these are stresses that come from within. For example: thinking you are not first-rate, thinking you are ugly and having no faith in yourself. External stressors are things such as changes in job status, death of a loved one, retirement, moving into a new home or assuming a large mortgage. Early signs of too much stress include: apathy, mental or physical fatigue, irritability, frequent illness and insomnia (http://www.mayo.edu/cv/wwwpg_cv/cvhc/stress.htm. Nov.6. 2002). Humans respond physically to life threatening or stressful situations
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