Kelly McGonigal TED Talk : How to make stress your friend

Incredible TED talk given by health psychologist Kelly McGonigal

Kelly McGonigal talks about the biological response we know as stress, and how it's been drilled into us from health care professionals that stress is bad for our health, to the point where  so many people are getting stressed about being stressed.

She offers scientific evidence to back up the value of a more natural relationship with stress, so that we are again in control of our bodies.

She talks about my favourite hormone, Oxytocin, and its role in promoting physical resilience to stress.


Brilliant lines from her talk!

• When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage 
• And when you choose to connect with others under stress, you can create resilience
• Stress gives us access to our hearts
• The compassionate heart finds joy and meaning in connecting with others
• Under stress, your pounding physical heart, works hard to give you strength and energy  
• And when you choose to view stress in this way, you're not just getting better at stress you're actually making a pretty profound statement   
• You're saying that you can trust yourself to handle life's challenges 
• And you're remembering that you don't have to face those challenges alone

Now watch her talk for yourself, and see if you too, can start to feel differently about stress!