Manage Stress by Monitoring Your Body’s Reactions to It

Re:Manage Stress by Monitoring Your Body’s Reactions to It by micheljansen on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @11:26AM (#15401136)

The "lookouts" they describe sound surprisingly similar to concepts of vipassana (mindfulness) meditation. Being aware of your own responses (physical and mental) at a meta level increases your ability to deal with them.

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Re:Manage Stress by Monitoring Your Body’s Reactions to It by SwetDrems on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @12:38PM (#15401738)

This is what I thought as well.

Mindfulness is a skill to be practiced. Similar to how your heart strengthens through running and your muscle-mass increases through weight training, your ability to recognize physiological and physical responses to stress will sharpen with continued mindfulness practice.

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Re:Manage Stress by Monitoring Your Body’s Reactions to It by zentiggr on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @12:51PM (#15401849)

But terminology soemtimes matters, and some people who would otherwise think "What? Meditate? I don't have time for that nonsense!" will read this and think "Oh, yeah, that makes sense, of course I need monitoring, just hadn't realized I could monitor myself too."

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