A short excerpt from a YouTube video by James Laughlin advising people to begin stress-management practices before reaching a breaking point. The speaker emphasizes prevention over cure: routinely practicing habits (for example, gratitude) builds psychological reserves and resilience so that when major stressors occur, people can return to baseline and recover more effectively.
A lot of the time we think, oh, you know what I'll do? I'll start doing my stress management once I've hit breaking point. And it's like, no, no, no, no, guys, let's go backwards. You know, we want to prevent stress as much as cure it. And if you start to do these practices, then you get this incredible resilience to get back up to your baseline. Because a lot of times when we're in stress, we're below the baseline. And so to even get back up to our, like, general baseline to then be able to go happier to the top and feel our best, you know, you want to have those reserves like you said. And all these, you know, stress management practices, hacks, things like gratitude. All that's doing is building that reserve so that when stuff hits the fan or when you have a really bad day, you have more resilience to be able to cope with it for sure.
