How to Make Stress Work for You

✍ Scribed by Kimberlee Bethany Bonura

• Publisher: The Teaching Company
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Series: The Great Courses
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Life is stressful. There’s just no getting around it. But while everyday stressors are a fact of life, that doesn’t mean they have to control you. Rather, with the right scientific understanding, you can actually make stress work for you instead of against you.

Trying to live a completely stress-free life is a zero-sum game. The true goal of your relationship with stress is to figure out how to manage it effectively; how to use it to build and support a meaningful, resilient life. In these 18 enriching and inspiring lectures, discover how to manage and minimize the stress in your life. You’ll explore the nuances of stress in ways you never really considered. These include types of stress (such as traumas, moderate stressors, and activities of daily life) and the idea that what you experience in life is really just your brain’s response (using memory and reasoning) to raw input and stimuli. You’ll also explore the relationship between emotion and stress, including the idea that expressing your rage could actually be making you angrier. Dr. Bonura fills these lectures with scientifically-backed techniques, behavior modifications, and exercises you can use to build a personalized toolkit to better manage your stress response. You’ll learn about responsible detachment from stressful situations, the importance of ruminating right after a traumatic event, the ways physical affection helps with healing, and much more. Rooted in scientific findings from experiments, research papers, and case studies, these lectures offer you nothing less than a bold new way of facing (and appreciating) daily life.

✦ Table of Contents

Professor Biography......Page 3
Table of Contents......Page 5
Course Scope......Page 7
Lecture 1 • A New Mindset about Stress......Page 10
Lecture 2 • Happiness: A Fickle Queen......Page 18
Lecture 3 • Anger: A Tyrannical King......Page 26
Lecture 4 • Swimming in an Ocean of Sorrow......Page 34
Lecture 5 • Why You Stress: Arousal and Value Judgment......Page 41
Lecture 6 • Choose Your Adventure: Choose Your Stress......Page 50
Lecture 7 • Heaven and Hell Can Be Other People......Page 58
Lecture 8 • Our Overstressed, Overscheduled Kids......Page 67
Lecture 9 • Change Your Mind to Change Your Stress......Page 76
Lecture 10 • Emergency Stress Management......Page 85
Lecture 11 • Good Stress Helps You Handle All Stress......Page 93
Lecture 12 • The Stress of Learning and Mastery......Page 101
Lecture 13 • Alternative Approaches to Stress......Page 109
Lecture 14 • Mindfulness: Heart Healing to Manage Stress......Page 118
Lecture 15 • Channeling Stress for a Competitive Edge......Page 127
Lecture 16 • Emerging Stress Management Technology......Page 136
Lecture 17 • Rest, Restore, Recover Your Resilience......Page 145
Lecture 18 • Learning from Your Stress......Page 153
Bibliography......Page 162
Image Credits......Page 171

✦ Subjects

Stress, manage and minimize