Exercise can offset the effects of stress hormones (cortisol) and stress relief by helping to focus your thoughts (or empty your minds) and leave you with no choice but to just relax.
Doing relaxing yoga moves and postures, and deep breathing exercises is a great way to relieve stress, calm down, quiet your thoughts and lower your blood pressure.
Positive selftalk can go a long way towards helping you manage your stress response and improve your ability to maintain your daily relaxation techniques.
Shutting out the external noise of what we should be doing, seeing, wearing, etc, is a great way to foster stress relief that we both create for ourselves and carry throughout the day.