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Brain Bites – Navigating Stress and Anxiety
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Brain Bites – Navigating Stress and Anxiety

Shift your mindset toward excitement and adventure over stress and ordeal
Created byBigger Brains
Last updated 6/2024
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What you'll learn

  • Define and separate distress from eustress
  • Recognize how our default stress behaviors are trying to protect us
  • Realize how to take back control from your basic internal physiological reaction
  • Recognize the difference between chronic and acute stressors
  • Describe the long-term effects of cortisol on health and performance
  • Engage in behaviors that lower chronic stress
  • List appropriate strategies to distract yourself and mitigate the effects of cortisol on your body in the moment
  • List 7 activities to mitigate the effects of cortisol

Course content

1 section • 6 lectures • 30m total length

  • The Myth of Zero Stress4:00

    Reframe stress by recognizing it isn't inherently good or bad; tell a different story about time, and use the Yorks-Dotson law to boost performance without distress.

  • Getting to Know Your Ancient Brain5:56

    Understand how our ancient brain and bottom-up subconscious drive the stress response in a modern world, outrunning conscious processing. Learn to retrain your brain to stay present and respond constructively.

  • Choosing Adventure5:25

    Choose adventure over ordeal by rewiring fear signals: recognize stress as information, reinterpret elevated heart rate as excitement, and address both acute and chronic distress to improve performance.

  • Chronic Stress7:05

    Combat chronic stress with slow deep breaths to lower cortisol and reset your body. Limit night screens, take a 20-minute nap, and practice a brief body-scan mindfulness exercise.

  • Acute Stressors4:08

    Explore practical strategies for managing acute stressors, including noticing the stress response, gratitude, deep breathing, distraction techniques, the five-four-three-two-one exercise, and cortisol gym workouts.

  • The Cortisol Gym3:58

    Engage in a cortisol-reducing routine featuring listening to classical music, screaming, laughter, gum chewing, nature exposure, and aromatherapy, then finish with exercise to lower cortisol and boost dopamine and serotonin.

  • Knowledge Check

Requirements

  • Anyone can take this course

Description

Shift your mindset toward excitement and adventure over stress and ordeal.


Since you can’t eliminate stress from your life, why not learn how to manage it and use it to your advantage? Did you know there’s such as thing as good stress? How can you learn to choose adventure over stress, and manage your responses? In this course, discover how your instinctive reactions are working against you to create stress and anxiety, and what you can do to change your reactions.


Experts Dr. Rebecca Heiss and Nathan Robinson will give you insight into the difference between chronic stressors and acute stressors, and teach you strategies to distract your focus. Once you learn the negative effects of cortisol, you will want to practice specific activities right along with them to help mitigate those effects on your body.


Topics covered include:

  • Defining and separating distress from eustress

  • Recognizing how our default stress behaviors are trying to protect us

  • Recognizing the difference between chronic and acute stressors

  • Describing the long-term effects of cortisol on health and performance

  • Engaging in behaviors that lower chronic stress

  • Listing appropriate strategies to distract yourself and mitigate the effects of cortisol on your body in the moment

  • Listing 7 activities to mitigate the effects of cortisol


Enjoy high-quality HD content in the “Uniquely Engaging”TM Bigger Brains Teacher-Learner style!

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who would like to learn how to lower stress and manage anxiety on the job.

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