Stress comes in two types: adaptive stress from positive events like new jobs and falling in love, which helps your brain and body, and maladaptive stress from chronic worry that sends people to doctors. The 5 Resets program helps shift you from survival mode back to thriving.
Not all stress is bad. There are actually 2 kinds of stress. There's healthy, productive stress, like getting a new job, getting promoted, falling in love, having a baby, buying a new home, rooting for your favorite sports team. These are positive stressors. They're actually considered healthy stress for your brain and body. In science, we call this adaptive stress. Now, there's another kind of stress, unhealthy stress, scientifically known as maladaptive stress. That maladaptive stress is what gets you into the doctor's office. And so what the 5 Resets does is really a tool to help you move away from that maladaptive, unhealthy stress and back to healthy levels. Because the goal of life is not to live a life with zero stress. It's actually biologically impossible. But really, the 5 Resets will help you transform your relationship to stress because it will bring that stress, that runaway, unbridled, unhealthy stress that is unchecked back to healthy levels so that you can finally get out of that survival mode and back to thriving.
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