Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace until Wednesday morning.

Now I don't know about you, but when we feel stress in life, sometimes we don't really

know what to do with it.

Sometimes that's conscious, sometimes it's unconscious.

Sometimes we intentionally shut it away, shut it off, try to push it down and suppress

it.

Other times it just sort of happens.

It's almost like we don't have the capacity to even think about how to process it or

to be able to allow it to be processed.

So it just sort of happens, it's pushed away.

Now we may think that's a good way to deal with stress.

If we can just sort of push it away and keep it out of our mind, out of our life, then

somehow we're going to be happier as a result.

Stress doesn't really work like that.

My guess is that you will have experienced that in some way in your life.

Maybe you've been able to keep it down for a certain period of time and then maybe you

got ill in some way.

Maybe you're able to suppress that frustration or something for a certain period of time

and then you just suddenly broke down one day.

Maybe it was tears or work, maybe it was a meltdown in the queue at the supermarket with

your children.

There are so many different ways that we suddenly go from sort of at least appearing on the

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