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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Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee · The Science of Deep Rest: How Relaxation Calms Stress & Slows Ageing with Dr Elissa Epel #668 · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

subtle state of chronic stress and some people of course many people feel the thoughts of the feelings the subjective stress feeling overwhelmed feeling worried but other people don't and yet their body is still under the state of chronic stress but they're not uh they're not denying it they just don't notice it anymore they're they're so used to it so i think there there's a uh

question about like what is our true baseline are we under chronic stress we can ask ourselves how stressed we feel and that's how we measure it in studies you know rate on a one through ten scale whether you feel moderately stressed in the middle of five or extremely stressed at ten but when it's day after day you know we just adjust our baseline yeah

Yes, that sounds great.

I really like the mind states because it opens the door to us having a labeling system, pretty simple label system of four mind states and checking in with our body and seeing where we're at.

And that's step one.

If we can turn on the light of awareness, we can then...

measure, manage, monitor, and reduce stress.

And that sounds like a lot of work, but we can do that within minutes.

So the beauty of feelings of stress is that they are absolutely malleable and we can change our physiological stress as well as our emotional stress within five minutes.

So these subtle, small changes every day that you talk about a lot and many of your speakers are

really the medicine, they are critical for us to bringing down our elevated, excessively elevated, unnecessary feelings of stress,

So that we can actually really tap into deeper living.

So that's where the mind states come in.

The first mind state is, well, sorry, you asked me, what is stress?

We are all experts on stress because we live with so much stress.

We know what we do to manage it.

We all want to manage it better.

You can't get rid of it.

It is the fundamental survival, neurobiological, and body wiring that keeps us able to adapt to the ever-changing environment.

So we need to be flexible and responsive, and that is beautiful and healthy.

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