Walking Club: Week Six

Rethink your stress: The Surprising Way Stress Can Heal You — If You Let It

Let me ask you a question:

How stressed do you feel?

Go ahead and rate it on a scale of 0–10, 0 being no stress at all, and 10 being like you’ve hit a point beyond your max.

Now, take a deep breath. Whatever you’re feeling, it’s okay.

And yet, at the same time, it doesn’t have to stay that way.

Like most things in life, a little reframing can go a long way in shifting your beliefs and, in turn, your biological outcomes. Transforming how you feel, even if nothing else in life changes.

In fact, it can shift your beliefs, and in turn, your biological outcomes, transforming how you feel — even if nothing else in your life changes.

In this lesson, I will teach you the difference between good stress and bad stress and how to transform bad stress into good stress using what I call the yo-yo effect.

Stress Isn’t the Enemy

That’s what I want to help you do today — reframe stress.
Because the truth is: stress isn’t always bad.

Stress can be very beneficial when you know how to view it and use it. It’s actually required to create change. You just have to learn how to make it work for you.

But first, I do need to clarify that stress can be a problem.

It’s true: stress is a leading contributor to disease, obesity, infertility, burnout, and chronic mental exhaustion.

Stress is a massive factor in the decline of health amongst humanity.

But stress only becomes harmful when it’s: