Stress may be divided into two categories, "bio-stressors" and "emotional-stressors." Bio-stressors are biological forces which act on the body. Some examples of bio-stressors are listed below.

• Gas - gas build up in the stomach and/or intestines.
• Urine - urine build up in the bladder.
• Feces - feces build up in the bowel.
• Dust build up in the nose.
• Flem in the throat.
• Hot climatic conditions, heat.
• Physical pain.
• An itch.
• Viruses, colds, diseases.
• Nausea in the stomach.
• Inactivity.

Each bio-stressor moves a person from a peaceful state to an uncomfortable state and, depending upon the course of action chosen, back to a peaceful state again. Emotional-stressors are emotional forces which act on the body. Some examples of emotional-stressors are listed below.

• - Joy
• - Grief
• - Terror
• - Shame
• - Embarrassment
• - Frustration
• - Anger
• - Inadequacy
• - Jealousy (specifically the fear of being abandoned)
• - Envy (specifically the fear of being inadequate or "not good enough")
• - Extreme boredom
• - Helplessness
• - Resentment (anger and/or hurt hidden or repressed)
• - Finding something humorous
• - Needs for relieving loneliness
• - Needs for sexual gratification
• - Hurt
• - Fear (nervousness, anxious, hypervigilance)
• - Denial and repression (keeping something secrete from myself, or from someone else as a way to control myself)

Emotional-stressors move a person from a peaceful state to an uncomfortable state and, depending upon the course of action chosen, back to a peaceful state again.

The uncomfortable state is referred to as the "stress response." The stress response is made up of the internal pressures and/ or anxieties that the body feels a need to expel during the course of living each day. The stress response is natures' cue for a person to move into a course of action. The goal of this action is to move the body from an uncomfortable state back to a peaceful state.

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