Stress can be good for you, and for your business!
Last week was 'International Stress Awareness Week' - and dedicating this time to raise awareness, is important, but it's only the first step! How often do you feel stressed? And, how do you react when stressful moments arise? Research demonstrates that "if you are under significant levels of stress and you believe stress to be harmful to you, then you increase your risk of premature death from stress-related illnessby 43%" - which is huge!
The surprising thing here is the use of the term 'believe', makes us think - is our stress made up? Not quite! But you can learn to re-navigate stressful moments, and ultimately, make stress your friend - by understanding the physiological changes, and increasing emotional intelligence. Key thinkers here, with a focus on the brain, are Kelly McGonigal and Lisa Feldman-Barret.
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Science of Wellbeing and Performance Public Sector Solutions Expo, Manchester This month, join Maria in
discussing how best to develop a strategy around the science of wellbeing and performance. Key insights include emotional vs. transactional engagement, as well as how to truly build a resilient organisation - proactively. Hope to see you there! Get involved
"Like many in the mindfulness community, this idea that stress is bad became an almost sacred belief. Whenever the uncomfortable sensations of stress arose, whenever we felt the faint call of our muscles tensing, our stomach churning, or our heartrate racing, we turned to the breath as a way to control and shift our experience from stress to ease. [But our] strategy to eradicate stress wasn’t working..."Read more.
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Women of Brilliance | Lisa Feldman-Barrett
In her book ‘How emotions are made: The secret life of the brain’, Lisa challenges traditional thought - demonstrating how ideas about emotion are drastically out of date, and the impact this is having.
Lisa Feldman-Barrett Ph.D., professor of Psychology has studied emotions as a scientist for the past 25 years and is a thought leader who has shaped our business. Methodologies have included probing human faces, measuring electrical signals that kick-start our facial expressions, physiology measures, and brain scans. Using the evidence gleaned from her research, Lisa highlights
that "the results of all of this research are overwhelmingly consistent. It may feel to you like your emotions are hardwired and they just trigger and happen to you, but they don't... that you're born with emotion circuits, but you're not."
"Beard’s primary subject is female silence; she hopes to take a "long view on the culturally awkward relationship between the voice of women and the public sphere of speech-making, debate and comment", the better to get
beyond "the simple diagnosis of misogyny that we tend a bit lazily to fall back on". Calling out misogyny isn’t, she understands, the same thing as explaining it, and it’s only by doing the latter that we’re likely ever to find an effective means of combating it."
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