Pharmacologyonline 1: 435-438 (2010) Newsletter Verma et al. 435 Meditation: A potential Stress Buster Vikash K Verma 1 , Rajeev K Singla 1 , Varadaraj Bhat G 2 1 Shri Gopichand College of Pharmacy, Ahera-Baghpat-250609, U.P, India 2 Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal-576104, Karnataka, India Corresspondance Address: Rajeev K. Singla Email Id: rajeevsingla26@gmail.com , V.verma00@gmail.com Summary Our bodies need a level of stress to perform well, But as truly says, anything in excess could be fatal. Stress management is the key to success in nursing programs. So many therapies were followed to get relieve from stress. But meditation proves itself to be the potential stress buster which not only enhances the stress threshold, but also considerably a vaccine to fight against various cognitive disorders and other social problems. Meditation assumes to be the world’s most widely used self regulation therapy. So recommendation is to follow meditation therapy as a stress buster as it will help each individual to have sound mind with a sound body. Keywords: Meditation, Stress Management, Stress Buster, Anxiety Stress Management: When a person is subjected to a stress producing effect known as stressor (a challenge, pressure, stimulus, external influence, etc.) it is registered in the brain. The brain gives various parts of the body instructions for a chain of reactions known as stress reaction or stress response. Different theories have different meaning about stress. Stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize. Stress, a psychiatric disorder, can be in the form of anxiety, the latter being manifested by the mood of fearfulness, behavior marked by restlessness and avoidance of situations, increased arousal with insomnia, excessive preoccupation with thoughts on the theme of insecurity, and a wide range of somatic symptoms which are based on muscular tension, hyperventilation leading to paraesthesiae and faintness, and symptoms based on overactivity of the autonomic nervous system [1]. As far as era is getting flooded with new entries, a throat cut competition is taking place which is generating fear, the latter one slops down the performance, .as it be true to say that blood of a human being is frozen at a level of minus temperature same as the financial blood of organization was frozen due to that cold fever named as recession. Its oftenly observed that People stay very confident with attributes towards their performance level and always accept to attempt and give their 100% but sometimes it becomes quiet difficult when they are expected something more than that 100%. That expectation could possible a potential cause of the stimulus, an inductive factor of the stress. Different people have different level of tolerance and adoption capability, accordance to their pattern, responds towards these expectations.