Flourish As You Age
BRAIN HEALTH
MENTAL MANAGEMENT
A GOOD DEATH
Let's not just fade away; let's FLOURISH as we age!
The MINDRAMP Podcasts focus on three key components that have been shown to contribute to flourishing in the later years of your life. You will find mini-series of episodes that explore each component.
1) Keeping your brain and body healthy - see The Roots of Brain Health
2) Managing your mental states - see Flourishing
3) Planning the kind of death you want to have - (coming 10/1/24))
You will also find the occasional episodes that focus social concerns that I feel have an impact on our well-being, for example "Elections."
Flourish As You Age
COGWHEELS #5 - Stress Management
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Learn how to manage your stress.
We’ve got plenty to be stressed about these days, from the coronavirus, to racial injustice, to climate change and the assault on democratic institutions. In this episode we examine the fourth of our eight CogWheels of Brain Health - Stress Management.
Chronic, uncontrolled stress can and does cause people to age more quickly and to die prematurely. But there is good evidence to suggest that our mental attitudes about stress are critical to whether stress harms us or helps us. Stress may be harmful in large part because we think it will be harmful. The danger arises, in other words, when we get stressed out about stress.
In this episode we draw distinctions between different types of stress – good and bad - and also examine important research on how changing our mindsets about stress can help us to minimize the harm and maximize the benefits of our natural stress responses.
Episode #5 Chapters
- Introduction
- Acute Stress
- Chronic Stress
- Eustress
- Stress Management Strategies
- Stress Got a Bad Rap (McGonnigal & Crum)
- Coping with Current Stressors
- Conclusion
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