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Reframing Stress

Radio Headspace

Headspace Studios

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Dora Kamau discusses the evolutionary role of stress as a transformative force, drawing parallels with Headspace's 'Letting Go of Stress' course for changing perceptions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Like some kind of Pizza Ninja, Domino's are slicing their prices.

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Domino's price slice.

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Small pizzas now 8 quid, medium now 10 quid, and large now 12 quid.

0:12.0

Yet we're making cuts too.

0:14.0

In 11th of February 24, minimum delivery spend, charges and areas may apply.

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Tous and see, see Domino's dot code.

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UK. Let's be studio. Hello, it's Dora. Welcome to Radio Head Space and to Monday. So the other day, while I was sitting

0:41.3

on the 405 freeway in sunny Los Angeles, I was listening to a

0:45.8

podcast on stress and the evolutionary role it has on our lives.

0:52.2

In simpler terms, stress is what creates change. The host gave the analogy of the brief but

0:58.8

pivotal stress a butterfly undergoes as it burst its wings through its cocoon and takes flight.

1:05.0

It's this stress that allows the caterpillar to transform into a beautiful butterfly.

1:11.0

Stress is a catalyst for immense and incredible change. For humans, it's the same. Great

1:19.2

change oftentimes requires a great amount of stress, but the difference is we have the ability to

1:26.2

alter our perception of stress. This reminds me of a TED Talk by Kelly McGonagall, a health psychologist from Stanford.

1:35.8

She says that research has shown that the way we perceive stress impacts our well-being.

1:41.9

Case in point, I'm 99% sure as the butterfly burst through its

1:46.3

cocoon that stress it experiences happens in the moment. It doesn't go on

1:52.2

thinking about the stress it went through.

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It's too busy enjoying its new wings.

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Our perception of stress is made up from past experiences,

2:02.1

unaddressed emotions, maybe even trauma.

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