Stress in sentence

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Here I've been spending so much energy telling people stress is bad for your health.

So this study got me wondering: Can changing how you think about stress make you healthier?

When you change your mind about stress, you can change your body's response to stress.

Now to explain how this works, I want you all to pretend that you are participants in a study designed to stress you out.

It's called the social stress test.

Before they went through the social stress test, they were taught to rethink their stress response as helpful.

And participants who learned to view the stress response as helpful for their performance, well, they were less stressed out, less anxious, more confident, but the most fascinating finding to me was how their physical stress response changed.

Now, in a typical stress response, your heart rate goes up, and your blood vessels constrict like this.

And this is one of the reasons that chronic stress is sometimes associated with cardiovascular disease.

But in the study, when participants viewed their stress response as helpful, their blood vessels stayed relaxed like this.

And this is really what the new science of stress reveals, that how you think about stress matters.

I no longer want to get rid of your stress.

I want to make you better at stress.

If you raised your hand and said you'd had a lot of stress in the last year, we could have saved your life, because hopefully the next time your heart is pounding from stress, you're going to remember this talk and you're going to think to yourself, this is my body helping me rise to this challenge.

And when you view stress in that way, your body believes you, and your stress response becomes healthier.

Now I said I have over a decade of demonizing stress to redeem myself from, so we are going to do one more intervention.

I want to tell you about one of the most under-appreciated aspects of the stress response, and the idea is this: Stress makes you social.

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's a stress hormone.

Your pituitary gland pumps this stuff out as part of the stress response.

It's as much a part of your stress response as the adrenaline that makes your heart pound.

And 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 is struggling so that you can support each other.

When life is difficult, your stress response wants you to be surrounded by people who care about you.

Okay, so how is knowing this side of stress going to make you healthier?

It also acts on your body, and one of its main roles in your body is to protect your cardiovascular system from the effects of stress.

It also helps your blood vessels stay relaxed during stress.

This stress hormone strengthens your heart.

So when you reach out to others under stress, either to seek support or to help someone else, you release more of this hormone, your stress response becomes healthier, and you actually recover faster from stress.

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