Stress-busting skills to try in everyday life

Life Kit

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Are you feeling overwhelmed by your to-do list? Going through something really tough? Stress is a part of life — but we can learn to manage it. NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey shares evidence-based skills from a research psychologist at Northwestern University aimed to bring more ease into your life. This episode is Part 1 of the new series, Stress Less: A Quest to Reclaim Your Calm. Click here to sign up for a month-long newsletter on this topic.

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0:00.0	Jim Ewing had to get his foot amputated after a climbing accident.
0:04.4	Thanks to a new procedure, his prosthetic feels like it's his real foot.
0:08.9	Your brain recognizes this piece of equipment as being part of you.
0:14.5	It just adopts it and starts using it as if it belongs there.
0:18.2	How Technology is augmenting humans
0:21.2	that's on the Ted Radio Hour Podcast from NPR.
0:24.0	You're listening to Life Kit, from NPR.
0:27.0	Hey everybody, it's Mariel, and with me now is NPR Health Correspondent
0:35.0	Allison Aubrey. Hey Allison. Hey Mary L good to be here. So I was wondering
0:40.3	how's your stress level today?
0:43.0	At the moment? Not great. I'm having to practice some of the skills I've been preaching.
0:49.0	Okay, what's going on?
0:51.0	Well, I have a little bit of a flood situation in my lower level here, a plumbing
0:55.2	issue, not to bore you with all the details, but you might hear the clinking of pipes and
1:00.3	corroded valves in the background.'m thinking to myself it could have been
1:04.4	a lot worse you know? Yeah is that something you learn from your reporting?
1:08.1	Yes the throughline of my reporting in this new series which is called Stress Less is that it's
1:15.2	really not realistic to think about eliminating our stress but how we manage it can
1:20.5	really make a difference. So this series may be useful to you if you have ever
1:26.4	felt there's more on your to-do list than you can actually accomplish or if you're
1:30.4	dealing with a tough personal situation or you just feel the weight of the
1:33.9	world's problems.
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