What is the single most important thing you can do for stress?

Dr. Mike Evans has a number of engaging and enlightening videos on how to get and keep healthy. Here's another on stress. Take 11 minutes and consider his sage advice. I use this with my students to inspire a research project on rethinking stress.



My favourite parts:

• How we cope with stress is affected by how much control we have over our lives, our social network, openness to change and self care skills.
• Change your thinking style. Change your thinking, change your life.
• We manufacture stress inside our brains with how we think. It's our thinking that brings the stress.
• Stress management is a skill that can be learned.
• Cognitive Behavioural Theory is where we learn practical strategies for changing our thinking.
• "The greatest weapon against stress is in our ability to choose one thought over another." Dr.William James.
• Mindfulness is really about choosing where to place your attention.
• Writing out a stress story can be very therapeutic. 
• When things are stress, it can be helpful to keep things simple such as keeping a regular sleep routine, avoid eating crap, walk, socialize. 
• "When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion." Abraham Lincoln
• 90-10 rule: 10% of life is what happens to us and 90% is how we respond.
• Our thoughts and attitudes are the key to how we manage the challenges and stressors in life.