Chad Silverstein explains how your beliefs about stress shape whether it makes you sick or strengthens you. Writing down your worldview about stress beforehand lets you respond deliberately instead of catastrophizing in the moment.
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So whenever we do the worldview and we tell people, start writing your 1.0. Everyone's always confused, like how do you do it? Where do you start, what do you write about? And Today's day, day 155. I think stress is a great topic for you to get real clear on what you believe about it. Because scientists have proved that you can literally make yourself sick, you can literally disease your body with the way that you think. Our minds are more powerful than we understand they us in a way, because we talk to ourselves as if that's not who we are. Sometimes it's not because our brains just take us places sometimes. And stress many times is an emotional reaction to things that are happening. And many times not on facts. Many times we're just kind of riding, you know, something that's going on in our life, but we make it worse than it actually is. And that stress can cause anxiety. And if you talk to any high performing individual in business, in sports, someone who has a good control, they have that calm demeanor, they know how to handle stress. Their mindset and what they believe about stress is the exact opposite of people who freak out and let stress rule them throughout the day and throughout their life. And so it all starts at the root on what you believe about stress. Because if you believe that stress is a good thing, that you'll grow from stress that you know before you hit the chaos zone where it creates anxiety, that there is a level of being challenged and being stressed and stressing your body and your mind to actually grow, that it's a positive thing, that you actually can thrive through being stressed. Stress is designed, you know, within us to be able to help us grow. So if you are always freaking out about things and you make yourself sick worrying about scenarios that you know haven't happened, because you're just using your imagination and you're so scared about certain things, which again at the root is just dealing with fear and why you're so scared about something that might happen. And a lot of times we then we catastrophize situations and we make things worse than they are. And typically the outcome that we're scared of never happens. That never happens. It's never as bad as we think it's going to be. It's like people who freak out about having a hard conversation with someone, but then they go have the hard conversation and it's not as bad as they thought it would be. And that happens time and time again. Yet we don't let that in as proof. So that when we move forward. The next time we have to have a hard situation, we delay it, we let it stress us out, and then problems get worse. And so I think, you know, if you can get clear on what you believe about stress and have a healthy mindset not to say that stress isn't going to be hard, and it's not going to say that there are some times where you're going to have anxiety. A lot of times the situation might be worse than what you think. But overall, having the attitude of health when it comes to being stressed will allow you, when things happen, to filter through whatever's happening, to think about what you believe, and then to kind of think more consciously instead of just reacting emotionally, which a lot of times our emotions lie to us. So you want to be deliberate with how you think. It starts with what you believe, and that starts with what you write down. And again, being conscious of how your brain works and how you process things and people in your life that happen on a daily basis. So stress is a great thing to add, your worldview, if you don't already have it, what you believe about it, what it, what it means to you, what it does to you. How would you like to preload your thoughts so the next time you're stressed, you can actually be, again, deliberate with how you respond to that stress instead of reacting to it. You know, that's. That's a pretty powerful thing that you can use the worldview for. So make sure you add that. And, and if you have already had something related to it, make sure you rinse it.
