Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living

Let’s discuss each in detail with the aim of helping you notice them first. Then, as of the next chapter, we will discuss how you can reduce them or even eliminate them altogether and put the right measures in place so they don’t come up again, which leaves you … unstressable.

The force applied is distributed across the area. Every tiny bit of the area carries a tiny little bit of the force. The larger the area, the more the object can carry and, accordingly, the lower the stress it experiences when subjected to an external load.

NOISE—INTERNAL MICRO STRESSORS

In physics, there are two main reasons why an object subjected to stress would break. The first is because an excessive force, which exceeds the object’s capability to carry, is applied over a very short period of time.

a trauma and, accordingly, all the stressors that individually would not break your back. Some of those are sizable and quite demanding to deal with, and though they may not individually break you, add a few more smaller ones and things become challenging indeed.

is totally focused on your capability, or lack of, to deal with it in a way that keeps you safe.

If your brain manages to gather enough evidence that what it is worried about is likely to happen—

When you are scared, everything seems to be a demon. Awareness of the presence of a stressor of any kind leads us to obsess about it. The primary task of your brain is to keep you safe. Influenced by its own fear and worry, your brain starts to search for threats everywhere. And what you

The more confident you feel that you can handle the threat, the less anxious you are, and vice versa. For that, dealing with anxiety is not a question of assessing the threat itself. Rather, it is a practice of questioning your brain’s claim that you won’t be able to handle it when you have handled every other threat that came your way so far