This tip about our brain and stress changed everything for me #stress #performance

When we're in the stress response, our attention gets very narrow and focused on the only thing that the brain cares about— that survival mode. Whether that threat is imagined or real, the brain wants to really deal with that. So it wants to solve that thing that we're worried about, that we're anxious about. And in modern life, we have a lot more stress from imagined thoughts than we do from real physical danger. Like, it's not often that we're being chased down by a car or a lion— you've all heard that— whereas we're constantly worried about things to come or something that happened in the past, so mainly in our mind. So the relaxation response is the physiologic opposite of the stress response. In this state, which we also call the rest and digest system, we are open to new ideas, we learn better, we are more flexible, our memory is more available, and our attention widens and becomes more receptive to things. Thank you.