Brain Bites – Navigating Stress and Anxiety

About this course

Shift your mindset toward excitement and adventure over stress and ordeal.Since you can’t eliminate stress from your life, why not learn how to manage it and use it to your advantage? Did you know there’s such as thing as good stress? How can you learn to choose adventure over stress, and manage your responses? In this course, discover how your instinctive reactions are working against you to create stress and anxiety, and what you can do to change your reactions.Experts Dr. Rebecca Heiss and Nathan Robinson will give you insight into the difference between chronic stressors and acute stressors, and teach you strategies to distract your focus. Once you learn the negative effects of cortisol, you will want to practice specific activities right along with them to help mitigate those effects on your body.Topics covered include:Defining and separating distress from eustressRecognizing how our default stress behaviors are trying to protect usRecognizing the difference between chronic and acute stressorsDescribing the long-term effects of cortisol on health and performanceEngaging in behaviors that lower chronic stressListing appropriate strategies to distract yourself and mitigate the effects of cortisol on your body in the momentListing 7 activities to mitigate the effects of cortisolEnjoy high-quality HD content in the “Uniquely Engaging”TM Bigger Brains Teacher-Learner style!