I finished my lecture on stress and coping a few weeks ago. During these crazy COVID-19 physical distancing times, I thought that sharing some of what I shared in that lecture might be a good idea. Here you go! Stress affects your health in both the short-term and the long-term. This video describes how that works . The Cognitive Appraisal Approach suggests that the way that you think about two things affects how stressful a change will be: Primary: Classifying the change as threatening or as an opportunity to succeed, then Secondary: Determining if you have enough resources to cope with the change. So, if you see the opportunity in any challenge, and focus on your resource s to deal with it, then it will be less stressful. Meditate! Meditation improves mood, and it also improve your health by suppressing the sympathetic nervous system. Since you missed the chapter on biological psychology, the sympathetic nervous system controls: H...
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