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Hi everyone, I'm Madu Back in Ola, your guest host for the week.

Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday.

If you listened yesterday, you know that this week is all about rethinking the way we

deal with stress.

Now when stress comes up, we tend to want it to just go away.

But research shows that acknowledging the stress we feel can help us understand how to

work with it better so we can feel better.

And one way to recognize stress is through mindfulness.

So today is all about using mindfulness when we're stressed, how it can change the

unproductive ways we react to stress, and why we may have been ignoring the things that

can give us comfort during hectic times.

My definition of mindfulness is being present and aware of how I'm experiencing the moment

without judgment.

So being able to say, I'm frustrated.

And not you shouldn't be frustrated over this, but just say, hmm, I feel frustrated.

It's this self-awareness and self-knowledge that helps you have a little bit more emotional

and bodily control over some of the stressors we face by just experiencing them as they

are.

I think that we all can remember situations where you were stressed and you yelled at somebody.

You treated a coworker poorly, you treated a family member poorly, and it wasn't even

necessarily something that they did or said that was different from the past.

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