There are countless techniques to help you cope with stress - for example, breathing exercises, meditation, counting to 10, relaxation, and taking a long walk. Most of us wait until our senses are stressed to the max before we take advantage of these stress-reducing techniques. But there's another side to stress management--building resiliency. Its focus is your ability to withstand stress better and bounce back sooner from difficult situations or crises. The new awareness of resiliency's role in stress management is being pursued by the military in programmatic ways called Resiliency Initiatives. The idea is to reduce the climbing suicide rate among military personnel, but this is just one of its benefits. Make resiliency training a part of your personal stress management program. Consider any or all of these seven areas of well-being: "emotional, social, spiritual, environmental, occupational, intellectual, and physical. Seek to develop strengths in these core areas of your personal being and you'll build resilience that allows you to weather stress, strain, and crisis better. This empowers you to return more quickly to a pre-stress or pre-crisis level of well-being.