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#1: Stress

Minding the Brain

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Can You Be Busy and Not Stressed About It?

Deep breathing, focusing on like, if you are really stressing out and panicking, focus on your external environment. This is actually a tool used in therapy. It's called a grounding exercise where you're, you know, look around you. And what are five things that you see? Look around you. What are fiveThings that you hear? Listen, what are five Things that you smell? What are fivethings that you can feel? Now, does that just, does that work just cause it's a distraction? Yes. I think stress often is about the psychological appraisal of what’s happening in your life. Right?"

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