Any change causes stress, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing. Your stress response is designed to help you meet demands you face by increasing your focus. It’s your perception of the stress that is either negative or positive, and that will make you be either emotional or rational about it. To harness the rational aspect of change, acknowledge that the change you are facing is tough. This will change where you experience the stress in your brain, moving it from the reactive amygdala (emotional) to the prefrontal cortex (rational).  It will allow you to put in place solutions and strategies instead of resisting and reacting.