Five ways to trigger the opposite of stress and master your calmness system
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The best way to deal with stress isn’t to avoid it. Unless you live in a monastery, that’s impossible anyway. A much better way is working with our autonomic nervous system. Like a car, this system has a throttle and a brake. Our throttle is located in the so-called “sympathetic nervous system”, or alertness system. It makes us alert – or even stressed when it is highly active. This is also known as the "fight-or-flight" response.
Five ways to trigger the opposite of stress and master your calmness system
Five ways to trigger the opposite of stress…
Five ways to trigger the opposite of stress and master your calmness system
The best way to deal with stress isn’t to avoid it. Unless you live in a monastery, that’s impossible anyway. A much better way is working with our autonomic nervous system. Like a car, this system has a throttle and a brake. Our throttle is located in the so-called “sympathetic nervous system”, or alertness system. It makes us alert – or even stressed when it is highly active. This is also known as the "fight-or-flight" response.