Madhupé: Adopting a more positive mindset might be one of the few resources at hand. When my heart is beating, I'm normally thinking to myself, this is bad. But if you can remind yourself that my heart beating is telling me like, "There's something here that I care about" Then that reframes that heartbeat not as a bad thing, but as your body preparing to act.
We’re all familiar with the ways that stress can make us feel bad. But professor and stress expert Modupe Akinola argues that a simple change in our mindset can turn short-term stress into a helpful resource. Modupe walks us through some strategies for how to better tolerate and understand our stress, and gives us tools for coping when a small “mindset shift” isn’t enough.
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