A friend was printing my e-book, Career Change the Stress-Free Way, at her local copy shop. Someone else saw the title and offered his opinion. “Career change, stress-free? What a bunch of bull!”

Actually, he’s right and not right. For people with a pulse, there will be some stress associated with change–any change. I, for example, get a little bit nervous before doing practically ANYTHING for the first time, including trying out a new yoga studio. Sometimes I even have to push myself to go.

Changing careers is much more consequential than switching yoga studios!

If change and stress are kissing cousins, is it really possible to change your career change in a “stress-free” way? Yes, for at least three reasons. In this post, I’ll give you the first reason.

#1—Stress can be managed. The #1 stress-buster, according to Dr. Mehmet Oz, M.D., of Oprah Show fame, is…meditation. He says that meditation can start in a variety of ways, including prayer.

When I heard Dr. Oz say this (on Oprah’s 11/1/2007 show), my heart smiled. Meditation happens to be the first of three “inner keys” in my Stress-Free Career Change system.

I’ve meditated for more than 25 years. I’ve also taught meditation to a wide variety of people–from family members to Manhattan professionals to women temporarily living in a battered women’s shelter. I even had the opportunity to teach about 300 female inmates at Rikers Correctional Facility how to meditate.

What an amazing stress-buster meditation proved—simple and powerful! It’s also easy to adapt to other activities if you can’t imagine yourself sitting still for 5 or 10 minutes a day. Either way, you can escape the prison of your mind.

Stress-Free Career Change? Yes, for stress can be managed with meditation, and many other techniques.