Vishen Lakhiani says stress is a mental construct: your body's response depends on what you believe about it. A Mindvalley manager cut her stress by swapping "I'm so busy" for "I'm fully optimized today." Self-talk rewires how overwhelm affects 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 easier 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 if they could arrange a meeting or something she would say you know guys I'm so busy she changed her self talk 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.