Anything short and sweet you can tell me? I've tried your garden variety stress control stuff, but you can't lessen your stress too much, can you?
They call their techniques "Martial Arts for the Mind," as they've been told by martial artists that what they talk about is the mental component of martial arts. What was interesting was the idea that you can actually train your mind to deal with stress better with practice.
The woman he mentioned said that what helped her wasn't the breathing/relaxation but the "movie" idea. The idea being to think of little kids watching a movie, how they're always yelling at the screen and warning the hero that the villain is crouched behind the bushes, as if that will do any good. If you find yourself in a stressful situation, step back and view it as a movie. It does no good to yell at the movie; that won't solve anything. Step back and assess the situation objectively as if you were giving advice to a character in a movie.
It sounds really simple, but it's hard to do unless you work at it. The other thing that made a lot of sense even though it seemed obvious was that stress is all internal. Stress is all about our response, so we are the only ones who can control it.