Dr. Elissa Epel

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631 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 23 Jun

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And so right there, that's a completely different sensory environment.

Adding some yoga poses that are restorative or stretches might be part of someone's routine, especially if they haven't moved much that day.

You can even do it in bed if you're that tired.

You can do forward bends while sitting.

So some of the big guns that I use, I love to be technology free, but the truth is these biosensors, when we benefit from them,

are a whole new source of information.

They promote a whole new level of awareness of where our nervous system is at, which is otherwise invisible to us.

We may think we know how stressed we are, but unless we're measuring it, we don't know.

Our feelings of stress are not tightly correlated to our nervous system physiology.

So that's kind of a foundation of stress science that we need to measure both.

And you first asked me, what is stress?

So at the subjective level, we all know what stress feels like.

We may be feeling overwhelmed, worried, alarmed, threatened.

anxious, tense, all of those subjective feelings are very important.

We need to check in with ourselves and say, what is my level of stress right now?

So that's just a tool we don't use enough.

That's an immediate check-in.

But even more advanced and powerful is getting a layer below those

feelings of stress, you know, that first sense of is my alarm on or off to various extents.

The second layer that's much more powerful is emotional granularity.

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