How to reduce stress and increase productivity naturally? Are you stressed? Are you productive? The two go hand in hand in a negative energy cycle and in fact the more stressed you are the less productive you are. Stress is one of the 3 pillars of wellbeing – the other 2 being diet and environment (which I will talk about another time).  The word 'stress' is such a commonly used one these days and in the modern world so many things are stressors to the human body (indeed diet and environment can also be stressful to your body). The modern way of western life is not how humanity was  designed to live.  Scientific studies have now shown that happiness, longevity and absence of disease is highest in societies that still live in a traditional way – eating plant based diets, being removed from environmental toxins, living in tribal based communities where everyone shares the load for sourcing food, money, shelter, for caring for children, for cooking and other domenstic tasks, for looking after the elderly and the unwell.  All work and many things which in our society are stress is shared amongst a large extended family or the whole tribe of traditional humans. In modern Western society we break off into our nuclear families, each of which has a huge amount of pressure on it, especially on the 1-2 adults in