Brain Bites – Navigating Stress and Anxiety
Shift your mindset toward excitement and adventure over stress and ordeal
Description
Shift your mindset toward excitement and adventure over stress and ordeal.
Since you can’t eliminate stress from your life, why not learn how to manage it and use it to your advantage? Did you know there’s such as thing as good stress? How can you learn to choose adventure over stress, and manage your responses? In this course, discover how your instinctive reactions are working against you to create stress and anxiety, and what you can do to change your reactions.
Experts Dr. Rebecca Heiss and Nathan Robinson will give you insight into the difference between chronic stressors and acute stressors, and teach you strategies to distract your focus. Once you learn the negative effects of cortisol, you will want to practice specific activities right along with them to help mitigate those effects on your body.
Topics covered include:
Defining and separating distress from eustress
Recognizing how our default stress behaviors are trying to protect us
Recognizing the difference between chronic and acute stressors
Describing the long-term effects of cortisol on health and performance
Engaging in behaviors that lower chronic stress
Listing appropriate strategies to distract yourself and mitigate the effects of cortisol on your body in the moment
Listing 7 activities to mitigate the effects of cortisol
Enjoy high-quality HD content in the “Uniquely Engaging”TM Bigger Brains Teacher-Learner style!
What You Will Learn!
- Define and separate distress from eustress
- Recognize how our default stress behaviors are trying to protect us
- Realize how to take back control from your basic internal physiological reaction
- Recognize the difference between chronic and acute stressors
- Describe the long-term effects of cortisol on health and performance
- Engage in behaviors that lower chronic stress
- List appropriate strategies to distract yourself and mitigate the effects of cortisol on your body in the moment
- List 7 activities to mitigate the effects of cortisol
Who Should Attend!
- Anyone who would like to learn how to lower stress and manage anxiety on the job.