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Understand the different types of stress
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Understand the different types of relief strategies
- Apply over 40 different ways to manage your stress
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Have an open mind and the will to try out new things
If you experience stress in your live, regardless of the cause or its intensity, this course is for you.
Chronic stress not only impairs our brain functions whilst we are stressed, but more importantly, it does lasting damage to our brain, as it kills braincells in our hippocampus. this means that, even if we we’re not stressed anymore, the damage will still be there.
Luckily, there is a lot we can do, as we will see in this course.
First we will analyze stress. where it comes from, what it does, the different types of stress, etc
After that, we will go over the 4 different types of dealing with stress. I call them ‘relief strategies’ For each of them I will give 10 concrete examples of what we can do to activate the benefits of that strategy. So 10 examples for 4 strategies: that’s 40 ways to deal with stress.
But it doesn’t end here. you are highly encouraged to leave your own ideas and examples for each of the strategies, so that this course becomes a co-creation where you help define the final outcome. You will be responsible for the “+”, in the “40+ easy ways to deal with stress”.
The Science behind the course…
This highly practical course has been thoroughly researched to bring you the best in brain insights regarding stress.
From brain structures to stress hormones, over survival instincts. We will dive deep in the reasons behind stress and the mechanics at hand
More importantly, we will look at the 4 different strategies to deal with stress, explaining the effectiveness of each and the reason why it works.
Based on research from the UCLA and the NYU, there will be surprising, counter-intuitive insights, which will help you look at stress and how to deal with it, from a completely new perspective.
My personal experience
As an expert in human behavior, I’m regularly asked to give lectures or workshops on stress. It’s increasingly an issue. This course was born out of dozens of interactive workshops that I led, where real people just like you sat down and created a personal action plan to help them deal with pressure and stress. It is packed with very concrete things anyone can do to help manage their stress levels. there are so many of them in this course, actually more than 40, as the title kinda gives away, So that you can find what works for you.
But it doesn’t end here. you are highly encouraged to leave your own ideas and examples for each of the strategies, so that this course, just as the workshops I lead, become a co-creation where you help define the final outcome of the course. You will be responsible for the “+“, in the “40+ easy ways to deal with stress“.
- Manage stress – before it manages you…
- Use cognitive relief strategies – and explore the power of your mind
- Use physical relief strategies – and let your body speak
- Use sensory relief strategies – and fight pain with pleasure
- Use emotional relief strategies – and walk a different path to beat stress
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And So Much More… such as survival instincts, hormones, brain structures, Peter Pan (really), and so on …
- Anybody interested in keeping their stress levels under control
- Anybody with a keen interest in human behavior
Introduction
The Road Block
The direct consequence of this, is that we should be mindful of our choices in life. If we develop harmful habits, our brain won’t tell us not to. It won’t resist. It will just adapt to it, and make us… ‘better’ at it.
It’s crazy, but if we decide to hurt ourselves, our brain won’t stop us. And if we do it daily, our brain will even make us better at it. Smoking, drinking, gambling are the obvious ones here.
But there’s a really nasty one. It’s the number one enemy of our brain. And yet, most of us are subject to it on a regular, if not daily, basis.
Ladies and gentlemen, you’ve guessed it right, I’m talking about…
Except, in real life, stress is not cute and furry. Stress kills brain cells (technically speaking, it’s the cortisol which we produce under stress which is responsible), in the hippocampus. The Hippocampus, as you know by now, plays a central role in memory.
But it goes further than that. The Hippocampus is one of few places in the brain where we create new neurones. So when our brain cells creating factory gets damaged… well, that’s not good. We’ll see all about neurogenesis (the creation of new brain cells) in Step 4.
And as I said, our brain adapts. When under chronic stress, our amygdala (center for fear and aggression) grows and becomes more sensitive. Connections to our prefrontal brain shrink away, and new connections get established towards our motor cortex. Why? To better run away or fight off danger. In other words, we loose our capacity for reasoning, and go with our primitive instincts instead.
So now, what?
Avoid stress all together?
Of course, in real life, it’s not feasible to avoid stress. We don’t live in a Lala land.
So here’s the next best thing:
Sorry for that…
I meant, what follows is the next best thing
Enjoy!
Introduction
Here we go over how the course is structured and what we will cover
Stress defined
Why do we experience stress?
why do feel stress? Is There Any Upside to it? is all stress the same?
How do you deal with stress?
A small test to find out what stress response you use most often...
What happens in our body?
Learn how stress impacts us on a physiological level
Relief strategies
What are cognitive relief strategies?
In this lecture we will explore the reason why disrupting our flow of thoughts can help us manage our stress
10 Cognitive relief strategies
10 examples of how to apply the cognitive relief strategies
Physical relief strategies
What are physical relief strategies?
In this lectures we will explore the reason why moving is one of the most effective strategies to deal with stress
10 Physical relief strategies
10 examples of how to apply the physical relief strategies
Sensory relief strategies
What are sensory relief strategies?
In this lecture we will see why some 'me-time' helps to reduce our stress levels
10 Sensory relief strategies
10 examples of how to apply the sensory relief strategies
Emotional relief strategies
What are emotional relief strategies?
In this lecture we will see how this totally new perspective on stress has been ignored until recently, and why it's the most effective strategy of all.
10 Emotional relief strategies
10 examples of how to apply the emotional relief strategies
Summary
Conclusion
An overview of the main points we discussed in this course and one last golden nugget
Certificate of Completion
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Gregory Caremans
Phycologist - Brain expertiseMy name is Gregory Caremans and I'm the founder of the award-winning Brain Academy.
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Felipe Jiménez
Amazing course!! Gregory is a great teacher. I learned a lot on this course, good combination of theory, practice and make easy to understand (you feel that every thing make sense, and it’s true ?)
Highly recommend to those people who want to know more about our brain and make your life better/happier.
Thank you Greg
PS: for sure I will see you on your others courses ?
Jason Cox
A great course. Lots of examples of easy techniques that can change your life from forming habits, ending procrastination, and reframing past traumas.