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Your body is trying to help you
Kelly McGonigal shows how the way you interpret stress changes what it does to you, and how the stress response can be read as your body preparing you rather than betraying you.
TED · 14 min · empowering
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Why we picked this
Ambition, visibility and change all come with pressure. This changes what pressure means.
Kelly McGonigal on changing your relationship with pressure.
What to carry out
- 1Your belief about stress shapes its effect on you.
- 2The stress response can be read as courage arriving.
- 3Reaching out to others is a biological stress remedy, not a weakness.
Sit with this
What do you usually tell yourself when your heart races?
What are you avoiding because it feels like too much pressure?
Who do you reach for when it gets heavy — and do you let them in?