Vishen Lakhiani says stress is mostly mental. A Mindvalley manager stopped saying "I'm so busy" and started saying "I'm fully optimized today," and her stress dropped. Your self-talk determines whether stress actually harms you.
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If you believe stress is going to kill you, your body will experience negative health effects of stress. But if you believe stress is not going to hurt your body, you do not experience any negative health effects of stress. Stress is a complete mental construct that you are making up. You can be trained to completely be immune to overwhelm. You can be trained to elevate your stress response. It's literally easy than you think. Someone like Elon Musk is the CEO of five companies and you think your job is tough. It turns out that how you talk to yourself will determine your body's response to stress. I had a manager at mindvalley and she every time somebody asked her, asked her if they could arrange a meeting or something, she would say you know guys, I'm so busy. She changed her self thought whether she'd say hey I'm fully optimized today. Look at my calendar, I'm fully optimized but I can meet with you next week. That simple change, she told me changed her reaction to stress.