There are many definitions of stress, but the one coined by Hans Selye in 1936 struck me the most. According to him, “stress is a nonspecific response of the body to any adaptive demand placed on it, whether the demand produces pleasure or pain.” He observed that the body's psychological response to a good situation or a bad situation is the same. According to Seaward (2012), author of the text Managing Stress, Principles and Strategies for Health and Wellbeing, there are three different types of stress including eustress, neustress and distress (Seaward, 2012, p. 9). Eustress is positive stress that motivates an individual toward an optimal level of performance or health (Seaward, 2012, p.9). An example of Eustress would be the stimulus your body generates when you get an A on a paper, or the one it generates when you find that perfect pair of heels on sale! Neustress is the type of stress that is neither good nor bad. The news of a typhoon in a remote area of ​​the world would be an example of neustress, the organism will not have any consequent effect from that news, neither for better nor for worse. Distress is the negative or unfavorable stimulus that your body generates and has two subtypes, acute stress (intense in nature but short-lived) and chronic stress (not as intense but endured over a long period of time). Failing an exam, hearing the news of the death of a loved one, are all examples of anguish. There are various stress management techniques, but the two techniques that impressed me the most were Expressive Art and Expressive Writing. Both of these techniques look very similar, yet they are very different from each other. Expressive writing, also known as journal writing, is a vehicle for meditation (Seaward, 2012, p. ...... middle of article ...... active for patients who do not respond to other evidence-based treatments (Van Emmerik, Reijntjes, & Kaumphuis, 2013) Comparing the amount of scientific research and effectiveness evidence collected for both techniques, I found that there is much more scientific research conducted on the effectiveness of artistic techniques. expressive art for stress management, expressive art has also proven useful in the treatment of critical illnesses such as cancer. Furthermore, expressive art therapy allows you to express feelings and emotions through art that would otherwise be difficult to express in words. In my opinion both therapies have proven to be extremely effective in helping people deal with stress. However, if it were necessary to choose one, I believe that expressive art would be the more effective stress management technique of the two.