Stress and its Expression According to Contemporary Science and Ancient Indian Wisdom: Perseverative Cognition and the Pañca kośas

Stress in varying degrees has become a part of everyone's life due to a shift from traditional to modern lifestyle. Stress may be best defined as a psychophysiological process, usually experienced as a negative emotional state, resulting from physical or psychosocial demands (Agarwal and Marshall, 2001[1]). Stress can be categorized in several ways