Kelly McGonigal

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The School of Greatness · The Real Reason Stress Is Hurting You | Kelly McGonigal · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

You're not excited in that moment.

Michelle Pacansky- You say to yourself, all right, well, my heart is pounding.

This means my heart is in it.

my heart is giving me energy to meet this moment.

And you could try saying to yourself, like, I'm here for this.

Or whatever your version of, if saying I'm excited feels like too far, just I like to say my heart is in it, which is a step from anxiety towards excitement.

And what we know is that as soon as people do that, it starts to subtly shift their physiology in a way that actually is a little bit healthier than like a fight or flight response.

So, you know, you get more energy, less inflammation in your body.

You're starting to move towards a stress state that really is just helping you have energy and courage and enjoy the moment.

And it also increases positive emotions like,

like confidence and enthusiasm, it makes you better able to connect with other people too.

I mean, there are studies that do a similar kind of mindset reset for people who are about to enter a stressful conversation.

And like, you know, one of my favorite studies, I found that people made more eye contact and they were more likely to mimic the other person's body language in this really natural way that helps build rapport.

Just by reframing their anxiety

as energy that they could harness as a sign that they care.

So that's one example.

And that's a far cry from something like saying, this is good for me, therefore it is.

These resets are pretty specific because they're grounded in biological reality.

I'll give you one other example.

One of the biological things that often happens when we're stressed is changes in our brain and in the hormones in our body that make us lonely.

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