Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

can actually transform or certainly have an impact on people's physical symptoms because these things are not separate.

They're one and the same.

And now I spend a lot of time thinking about stress and what stress actually is.

And you can look at it through multiple lenses.

You know, my second book back in 2018 was all about stress.

And whilst I still stand by everything that was in that, I would probably write it differently today.

Because it was, what, eight years ago.

And I think about stress.

My thinking has evolved somewhat since then.

And I think one way of looking at stress is thinking about it as resistance.

Stress in many ways only exists when we resist.

That resistance is the stress.

Whereas acceptance is the opposite of resistance.

Right?

If you can accept everything in your life, I know it's easier said than done.

That working on how you go about cultivating the skill of acceptance literally will transform your stress response because the stress...

the stress comes from the fact that you're resisting what is.

And when you stop resisting what is, the stress just isn't there, at least not to the same degree.

And sometimes the solution to stress or chronic stress that may be impacting our health, I think it's not, sometimes it's not as hard as we think.

I think sometimes it can be challenging for sure.