When you change your mind about stress, you can change your body's response to stress.

Stress is a general biological response to a potential danger.

I also put in here the stress response.

Before they went through the social stress test, they were taught to rethink their stress response as helpful.

And without adrenaline, his body can't mount a proper stress response.

And when you view stress in that way, your body believes you, and your stress response becomes healthier.

Your pituitary gland pumps this stuff out as part of the stress response.

What's our response to physical stress, like a fast paced game of field hockey after school?

And when oxytocin is released in the stress response, it is motivating you to seek support.

When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.

I find this amazing, that your stress response has a built in mechanism for stress resilience, and that mechanism is human connection.

And participants who learned to view the stress response as helpful for their performance, well, they were less stressed out, less anxious, more confident, but the most fascinating finding to me was how their physical stress response changed.

Your biological stress response is nudging you to tell someone how you feel instead of bottling it up.

When life is difficult, your stress response wants you to be surrounded by people who care about you.

And so over time, this becomes a stress response, which has enormous effects on the body.

It's as much a part of your stress response as the adrenaline that makes your heart pound.

It's necessary to avoid stress.

Stress, loneliness...

Now, in a typical stress response, your heart rate goes up, and your blood vessels constrict like this.

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I want to tell you about one of the most under appreciated aspects of the stress response, and the idea is this

But in the study, when participants viewed their stress response as helpful, their blood vessels stayed relaxed like this.

I want to stress this point.

Stress and frustration

Raju, don't stress.

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This stress hormone strengthens your heart, and the cool thing is that all of these physical benefits of oxytocin are enhanced by social contact and social support, so when you reach out to others under stress, either to seek support or to help someone else, you release more of this hormone, your stress response becomes healthier, and you actually recover faster from stress.

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