No matter how good your life circumstances are, you are affected by your stories. You may not even recognize them as stories; to you they may seem like worries or just the way you are. If this is the case, my advice is to be more curious and to look more closely.

A lot of people seem to have a necessary level of stress, and when their life is going well they make up imaginary problems to fill the void.

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