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

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

How you think and how you act can transform your experience of stress.

He stumbled out of class in a daze, and ran straight into his all time crush, spiking up his stress.

Having your confidence, not just any but swagger, meaning aiming your style and your moves at your opponent.

Reaction

Reaction.

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.

Especially expressions of contempt or disgust, well you really need a lot of positives to upset that.

A lot of people were happy.

Hey, Eric. How is Olga?

Normal reflexes.

It didn't register.

Dradis contact.

Nothing.

Still nothing.

You saw simulating fellatio in soldiers in Abu Ghraib.

These are hospitalized patients.

Interviewer What was MlT's reaction to that?

With one minute.

It just isn't responding.

He's not responding.

Instantly immobilizing

How are his vital signs?

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

I need an ergonomic keyboard to keep my repetitive stress injury in check.

Their response was typical for a species at their level of development.

We'll try and gain an understanding of how the body responds to drugs and how drugs affect the body.

They then recur, I give them that same drug every week.

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

Now I said I have over a decade of demonizing stress to redeem myself from, so we are going to do one more intervention.

simulations of chemical reactions

Reaction to Invitation

Decline invitation

It's not responding, sir.

It's just not responding.

The way you reacted.

We have a system that is really ancient, and really there for physical danger.

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

It's actually not that uncommon.

Where's your field box?

Come on down, man. Take a bow.

There's been a security breach.

Initiating response flash mode. Alpha, alpha.

Biosigns on the shuttle?