During the course of a given working day (or any other day, for that matter), it is oh so easy to find yourself in the midst of a particularly stressful day. When this happens, turn to your inner cultural aficionado. In the process of doing this, you may just find yourself more relaxed, and physiologically prepared to take on more of what your world has in-store for you.
Music (specifically classical music) has the power to calm the savage breast. Read of this, and other myriad powers contained in the works of Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, etc.