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#205 BITESIZE | The Secret to Solving the Stress Cycle | Drs Emily and Amelia Nagoski

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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The Stresser Sense Cycle

Stress itself was evolved into humanity to save our lives from lions chasing us across the savannah. And laundry also es us out. Our bodies don't have a wide variety of ways of responding to stress. The stresser sponse cycle completes in various physiological ways, sleep, physical activity, affection. If you feel like you're getting close to burn out, set the stressers aside for a moment. We are partially a hive species, and we need other people. So this is how the 20 second hug works. You connect physically with someone that you love and trust,. In 20 seconds, your heart rate lowers, your blood pressure goes down, and you return to feeling like you are

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