a summary of ted talk- how to make stress your friend by kelly Mc gonigal

How to make your friend stress by Kelly McGonigal

Kelly is a health psychologist who want to help people be happier and healthier, but now she has a fear about what shehas been telling to people, it has to do with stress. She always said that stress make you sick, and it increases someone’s illness from fever fo example, into cardiovascular desease. It far from good. And now she has changed her mind about stress after she know a study that made her rethink about the approach to stress. She said that people would die if they think that stress is harmful for our health, the data shows like that but People who experienced a lot of stressbut did not view stress as harmfulwere no more likely to die. And over 8 years people died prematurely, not because of stress but because of the beliefe about stress is harmful. So, what it is needed now is how you change your mind about stress make you healthier?And here the science says yes.When you change your mind about stress,you can change your body's response to stress. Then, to imagine how stress is , the speaker do a study with participants come into laboratory and have two part of test, math test and unknown test. And what she got is,in math test,  the participant who take the test might seem be stress by looking the respons and heart rate goes up,and blood vessels constrict hard. But different to the participant who participants viewed their stress response as helpful,their blood vessels stayed relaxed like this.Their heart was still pounding,but this is a much healthier cardiovascular profile.It actually looks a lot like what happensin moments of joy and courage.

Her goal now is not getting rid  of stress anymore, but want to make the people feel better when s/he stress And when s/he view stress in that way, body believes ,and the stress response becomes healthier. Stress also has to do with some hormones and oxytocin .being socialized with neighbor, friends, family might decrease stress as well because it has access to heart. he compassionate heart that finds joy and meaningin connecting with others,and yes, your pounding physical heart,working so hard to give you strength and energy.And when you choose to view stress in this way,you're not just getting better at stress,you're actually making a pretty profound statement.You're saying that you can trust yourself to handle life's challenges.And you're remembering that you don't have to face them alone. So, it’s all about beliefe, if you believe is in positive side, your body will respond to everything positively and if you believe in negative side, your body will also respond negatively.