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📘 How Can You Keep Stress From Letting a Feeling Become a Decision?

Stress can make a feeling arrive with an instruction attached: cancel, accuse, quit, reply immediately, or say yes before thinking. The feeling is real, but the instruction is a decision candidate. NIMH describes stress as a physical or men

10
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~30 min
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Adults
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What you’ll learn

  1. Name the Decision
  2. Read Activation as Information
  3. Open the Sequence
  4. Protect the Mental Workspace
  5. Separate Possible From Probable
  6. Inspect the Appraisal
  7. Write an Update Rule
  8. Give Uncertainty a Shape
  9. Change the Review Conditions
  10. Protect the Next Review

Grounded in trusted sources

  • National Institute of Mental Health, I'm So Stressed Out! Fact Sheet - https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/so-stressed-out-fact-sheet
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FastStats: Sleep in Adults - https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/data-research/facts-stats/adults-sleep-facts-and-stats.html
  • Shields, Sazma, and Yonelinas, The effects of acute stress on core executive functions - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27371161/
  • Jamieson et al., Capitalizing on Appraisal Processes to Improve Affective Responses to Social Stress - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6550483/
  • Morriss, Christakou, and van Reekum, If or When? Uncertainty's Role in Anxious Anticipation - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6013348/
  • Wikimedia Commons MediaWiki API image records - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php

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