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KELLY MCGONIGAL : HOW TO MAKE YOUR FRIEND STRESS


As a health psychologist, Kelly has a mission to help people be happier and healthier. For years she has been telling people that stress make us sick. It increases the risk of everything from common cold to cardiovascular disease. Basically, she has turned stress into the enemy and she has changed her mind about stress. she did a study of stress and it shows that stress is bad for your health but now she wants to change peoples’ mind that stress can make you healthier.

The science says when you change your mind about stress, we can change our body’s responses to stress. For instance, talk to yourself “this is my body” and make the body beliefs you that stress will response become healthier. Stress changes on how would you think and act on it.


Another thing that make stress healthier is by released a hormone called Oxytocin which has benefit to our heart in reducing stress. This hormone influence our social. When we help people, we produce this hormone a lot and it’s good to us to be healthier than before. Therefore, people who spent time caring for others can create healthy life. 
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