299: How to Live a Life with Less Stress & Why It's Vital for Good Health

The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style

Shannon Ables

Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

"The lack of meaning in our lives stresses us out, but too much stress makes it harder to find meaning." —Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, author of The Stress Solution

Yesterday, for the entire day, aside from letting my pups outside from time to time and feeding them, I wallpapered. I turned on old British cosy mysteries (Poirot with David Suchet), and went to town (hopefully) transforming my primary bedroom from a gray space to a French/English Countryside cottage space.

After such focused projects, I sleep deeply. Stress? Nonexistent.

Dr. Rangan Chatterjee explains in The Stress Solution how when you've found something you love "time, and even you sense of self, will seem to vanish when you're busy with it." Yep, this is the 'flow state' we've heard so much about. Your emotional brain finds it difficult to grab your attention as your rational brain is being fully encouraged to grow he further teaches. All of this is to say, any negative thoughts, cannot grab hold because you are intently engrossed in something your full attention needs to be engaged with.

Dr. Chatterjee shares more specifically as psycholoist Mihaly Csikszemtimihalyi (who coined the phrase - flow state) found, flow is only fully reached when we are challenged. Which makes it all the more important to find something to give your attention to regularly you not only love doing but also steadily gives you the opportunity to grow.

All of this is to say, we can alleviate and solve the problem of unnecessary stress in our lives. And when we do so, not only will our overall health improve - in the short and long term, but we will deepen the daily contentment we experience and improve our everyday lives.

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0:32.0	Friday. Now to today's episode. Welcome to the Simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with
0:50.3	signature style. I'm your host Shannon Ables and whether you're listening
0:55.1	on your commute exercising working in the garden or sitting down with a hot cup of
1:00.0	tea or a cafe LA thank you Thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 299th episode of the simple
1:23.7	Sophisticate.
1:25.2	In today's episode, we're going to talk about how to live a life
1:28.4	with less stress and why it is vital for good health and that good health is something not only physically
1:36.5	but also that radiates out of the world and ultimately improves the overall
1:41.5	quality of your life. Now today's episode is
1:44.7	inspired by a book that I learned about from listening to a podcast from with the author.
1:49.5	Ironically I was listening to Gardner's World Podcast and they had us a guest Dr Rangan Chattergy and he just had so much
1:58.8	enthusiasm for what he was talking about and he actually has a new book out that was shared in a
2:04.2	this and that earlier this month but this particular book the stress
2:07.4	solution came out a couple years ago and I just think it's a wonderful
2:11.3	resource so that's the primary source of today's topic for today's episode.
2:16.4	But before I get to that, break it all down. This week's Petit Pazir is a simple nibble, French inspired that is so easy to make and so satiating and lovely.
2:29.0	Brings me back to my childhood in many ways.
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