What’s between you and living your Best Possible Life?

Just the way your brain happened to get wired.

And the stories he tells you are the real source of all your stress, worries, and anxiety.

The World Health Organization has classified stress as the “health epidemic of the 21st century.”

Stress affects your

Mental health - making you anxious and depressed

Physical health - one study suggesting that up to 90% of all doctor’s office visits are due to stress related ailments.

Anxiety disorders affect more than 40 million adults in the United States (and almost 300 million worldwide).

Is it any wonder that for the third year in a row, Americans have dropped in the U.N.’s World Happiness Report ranking?

Now, you may think that your stress comes from your job, or finances, or family responsibilities.

And those are real, and we will work on them together, but don’t you know people with the same conditions who for some reason are not stressed by them?

That’s because stress doesn’t come from what’s going on.

Instead, research suggests, it comes from the stories your brain tells you about what’s going on.

(Stawski 2018).

But it’s not your brain’s fault!

That’s just the way it happened to get wired as you were growing up.

#EndSuffering

It’s Not Your Life That Causes You Stress, It’s Your Brain!

Grokking Mindfulness: Deep Dive (WP#046)