When your stress response is unable to fix the situation that is generated, not by a real event but by a thought, the negative feedback loop detects the continued presence of the cognitively generated threat and keeps you in a hyper-tuned mode of physical performance for hours, days, or sometimes years. When mentally stressed, there is no real

The higher the probability, the more you worry. This means that if you feel worried about something, the best question to ask yourself is not how bad it could be but rather how likely it is to happen. Instead of wasting your brain cycles, try to find solutions to ensure your safety.

Let’s continue this line of thought and discover how the limit, learn, and listen model can help make the TONN feel manageable and easy.

When afraid, your brain is no longer concerned with probabilities.

This is very similar to the way we humans experience stress too. Forces, challenges, and pressures are applied to us all the time, from the hurtful comment of a friend, all the way to late nights at work or even illnesses and financial struggles that we are all bound to face at one moment

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

TRAUMA—EXTERNAL MACRO STRESSORS

The first two Ls will help you remove stressors from your life proactively and develop the knowledge, skills, and resources you need to cope with stressful events that remain. All that is left for you to do, then, is to tune in and listen to your mind, heart, body, and soul as they either stress you, or alert you, inform you, and ask you to change

Learn the language your stress speaks, through your mind, heart, body, and soul, and you’ll be able to navigate