To understand this side of stress, we need to talk about a hormone, oxytocin, and I know oxytocin has already gotten as much hype as a hormone can get. It even has its own cute nickname, the cuddle hormone, because it’s released when you hug someone. But this is a very small part...
and my mission is to help people be happier and healthier. But I fear that something I've been teaching for the last 10 years is doing more harm than good, and it has to do with stress. For years I've been telling people, stress makes you sick. It increases the risk of everything...
To take this even further, substantial research has proven that it’s ourperceptionof stress that actually hurts us far more than the stress itself. In this wonderful TED Talk, Health Psychologist Kelly McGonigal shows us that people who believe that stress is bad for them do emphatically die...
Daniel Levitin beginsthis talkwith a personal story recounting his experience with losing personal items like passports and keys. He uses this as an example of when it is a good time to think in a pre-mortem way, which means thinking ahead of time about any possible disasters that could go...
Workplace stress, the stress causing this massive impact, is related to productivity and wellness. Today, that's what we're here to talk about. And by the way, it's linked to employee disengagement, chronic diseases that impact your work and work-related injuries and illnesses. And when yo...
Used to downplay or shift focus from one's feelings of stress by instead considering all that one has to be grateful for.Sure, having three little kids at home is overwhelming, but when I consider that they're all happy and healthy, I remind myself that I'm too blessed to be stresse...
and my mission is to help people be happier and healthier.?But I fear that something Ive been teaching?for the last 10 years is doing more harm than good,?and it has to do with stress.?For years Ive been telling people, stress makes you sick.?It increases the risk of everything ...
"The Upside of Stress" has changed my life. I was introduced to Kelly McGonigal by her TED Talk "How to make stress your friend," and after spending the last year overwhelmed by generalized anxiety disorder and almost unable to function like I need to, I decided it was finally time to...
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In a 2013 TED Talk, McGonigal explains the findings from a University of Wisconsin-Madison study that followed nearly 29,000 participants over eight years to understand the importance of how we think about stress. People who reported high levels of stress and also believed that stress had a ...