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Changing How You Think About Stress Makes You Healthier
Researchers estimated that over the eight years they were tracking deaths 182,000 americans died prematurely not from stress but from the belief that stress is bad for you that is over 20,000 deaths a year!
Conclusion: when you change your mind about stress you can change your body's response to stress!
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So hopefully the next time your heart is pounding from stress you're going through, remember this and you're going to think or talk out loud to yourself:
"This is my body helping me rise to this challenge" and when you view stress in that way your body believes you...
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Your Stress Response Are Helpful For Your Performance
In a study conducted at harvard university before they went through the social stress tests they were taught to rethink their stress responses helpful, that pounding heart is preparing you for action, if you're breathing faster it's no problem it's getting more oxygen to your bra...
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A Much Healthy Cardiovascular Profile
Their heart was still pounding but this is a much healthier cardiovascular profile. It actually looks a lot like what happens in moments of joy and courage.
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Also Stress Makes You More Social
When oxytocin is released in the stress response, it is motivating you to seek support, your biological stress response is nudging you to tell someone how you feel instead of bottling it up. Your stress response wants to make sure you notice when someone else in your life...
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The best way to make decisions is
go after what it is that creates 'meaning'
in your life and then 'trust yourself' to
handle the stress that follows!
KELLY MCGONIGAL
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Dental Student🦷 An aspiring Doctor striving towards the path of righteousness.⚕
This TED talk indeed reshifted my perspectives towards "stress!"
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Reminisce a Time When You Felt Confident
Right before you do something you feel nervous about, try going back to a previous experience where you had an optimal level of energy, focus and achievement.
Replay and review the event in your mind. What were you doing? Who was there? What was the response you got from others? How did you...
7 Things You Need To Understand About Anxiety And Depression
No, we are not over yet. After discussing the topic with my friend’s Dad (he is a doctor), I’ve made a list of things you need to understand and avoid anxiety attacks (hard to breathe moments).
- Think of your anxiety as a biological problem, rather than thinking there is something wron...
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