Embrace Your Stress: From enemy to friend
Stress isnt evil, health psychologist Kelly McGonigal , PhD, emphasized on KQEDs Forum on Friday. Just a few years ago, that would have sounded like nonsense. But now, thanks in part to several appearances coinciding with the publication of her book, The Upside of Stress , McGonigal is making in-roads on the stress-as-boogeyman narrative.
By embracing stress, accepting it as your bodys natural response to events, people can live longer and even channel their stress into a productive form, she said.
One way to think about stress is that its energy and you get to decide what the right thing to do with that energy is, McGonigal said.
Just as top performers and athletes capture the momentum of stress to improve their performance, all of us can learn to relate to stress in a way that leaves us wiser and stronger, she explained.
Stress can also be a catalyst to strengthen relationships: Its part of the brains and bodys motivation to help you connect with others and help you strengthen social bonds.
During rough patches, it can also be immensely helpful to maintain the perspective that life is teaching you a lesson that will leave you stronger, McGonigal told listeners.
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We al have stress in our lives
This doctor suggests that taking the energy of that stress and turning it into something positive is the way to go.
Sounds reasonable to be
I have a number of those stress balls on my desk and tend to bounce them off the wall when I am thinking about a tough problem or something is bothering me that I do not want to think about or talk about.
My wife always tells me face it and do something about it or move on - maybe that is what the doc is talking about as well.
Stress in one form or another, andnot handling it well,leads to many,many ER visits in the US. Good article, good advise.
Robert,
Its expected of badfish to brag about how he can type with one hand while relieving his stress,...but, and there always is a butt, I thought you were trying to one up him by telling us how you keep your balls on the table....butt to bounce them off the wall when you are board. I take my hat off to you and bow in a fit of admiration,.... I think.....
Larry
Excellent point
thanks for the perspective
Serious subject and a comedic response
I would thank you for your contribution to the conversation, but there was nothing relative to the topic in the comment, thus no contribution.
Thanks for trying
Way too personal in my view
Thanks for trying I guess