If you wake up and you're feeling like you're looking forward to the day or you're feeling gratitude

or some type of positive emotion, that slows your biological aging.

And so even if you're a caregiver, if you adopt a practice of gratitude or you do something

at night to increase your positive affect, we think that that's

what matters, that that's what we control. We control what we do in a day and we don't control

the rest, what life situations, our financial, you know, the families were born into, how much

we make, we might love being an artist. We'll never be rich.

There's all these things that we need to accept about our lives. But we don't need to accept a state of chronic stress.

We need to embrace the idea that actually we can view things. We can have these paradigm shifts.

We can view things differently. We can get in paradigm shifts. We can view things differently.

We can get in touch with what's in front of us that's right, that's good, that is miracles

that we wouldn't even see if we're feeling stress and unsafe.

That was Dr. Alyssa Epple.

In today's show, we talk, as you might imagine, from that cold open,

about stress. Now, stress comes in lots of forms, and one of the most challenging things about

it is it's so difficult to see it coming. And before you know it, you're enveloped in it.

You're surrounded by it. You're

swimming in stress. Now, most common wisdom say, hey, avoid stress. And here's a list of things to

do to do that. But today's episode is different. Some of the topics we cover today, things like,

of course, cold water. She actually has something that support that, that which you know i'm a huge fan of

that but more important priorities inventory uh things like um body posture can actually change your

levels of stress and again how some stress is good other stress bad, how to know the difference and how to leverage yourself.

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