How to Make Stress Work for You

Description

Life is stressful. There’s just no getting around it. But while everyday stressors are a fact of life, that doesn’t mean they have to control you. Rather, with the right scientific understanding, you can actually make stress work for you instead of against you. Trying to live a completely stress-free life is a zero-sum game. The true goal of your relationship with stress is to figure out how to manage it effectively; how to use it to build and support a meaningful, resilient life. In these 18 enriching and inspiring lectures, discover how to manage and minimize the stress in your life. You’ll explore the nuances of stress in ways you never really considered. These include types of stress (such as traumas, moderate stressors, and activities of daily life) and the idea that what you experience in life is really just your brain’s response (using memory and reasoning) to raw input and stimuli. You’ll also explore the relationship between emotion and stress, including the idea that expressing your rage could actually be making you angrier. Dr. Bonura fills these lectures with scientifically-backed techniques, behavior modifications, and exercises you can use to build a personalized toolkit to better manage your stress response. You’ll learn about responsible detachment from stressful situations, the importance of ruminating right after a traumatic event, the ways physical affection helps with healing, and much more. Rooted in scientific findings from experiments, research papers, and case studies, these lectures offer you nothing less than a bold new way of facing (and appreciating) daily life. Professor Biography......Page 3 Table of Contents......Page 5 Course Scope......Page 7 Lecture 1 • A New Mindset about Stress......Page 10 Lecture 2 • Happiness: A Fickle Queen......Page 18 Lecture 3 • Anger: A Tyrannical King......Page 26 Lecture 4 • Swimming in an Ocean of Sorrow......Page 34 Lecture 5 • Why You Stress: Arousal and Value Judgment......Page 41 Lecture 6 • Choose Your Adventure: Choose Your Stress......Page 50 Lecture 7 • Heaven and Hell Can Be Other People......Page 58 Lecture 8 • Our Overstressed, Overscheduled Kids......Page 67 Lecture 9 • Change Your Mind to Change Your Stress......Page 76 Lecture 10 • Emergency Stress Management......Page 85 Lecture 11 • Good Stress Helps You Handle All Stress......Page 93 Lecture 12 • The Stress of Learning and Mastery......Page 101 Lecture 13 • Alternative Approaches to Stress......Page 109 Lecture 14 • Mindfulness: Heart Healing to Manage Stress......Page 118 Lecture 15 • Channeling Stress for a Competitive Edge......Page 127 Lecture 16 • Emerging Stress Management Technology......Page 136 Lecture 17 • Rest, Restore, Recover Your Resilience......Page 145 Lecture 18 • Learning from Your Stress......Page 153 Bibliography......Page 162 Image Credits......Page 171