I'm your friend.

Hi, my name is Fr. Mike Schmitz and this is Ascensha Presents.

I imagine you're probably stressed at some point in your life, maybe even right now because

you should be doing your work.

So busted.

But a lot of us experience stress.

In fact, when they ask across the country, country being the United States, although

thanks for watching from other places than the United States, people report high levels

of stress.

And now it's interesting because when you start diving into research about stress, something

you find is that there is such a thing as you stress and such a thing as distress.

So you stress is the good stress, right?

It's the anxiety or the anxiousness we feel before we are going to perform.

It's the you stress, the good stress.

You may experience that actually gets our body prepared to act, right?

So it's, it's, it's, you stress is the kind of stress that prepares our bodies for action.

But there's distress.

And one of the things that distress does is distress can paralyze us.

It does the opposite of you stress or good stress.

Distress makes us feel incapable of moving.

It makes us feel paralyzed.

It makes us feel afraid and anxious to the point where we don't move instead of I'm anxious

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