Wellness

How to make stress your friend

33,725,794 views | Kelly McGonigal | TEDGlobal 2013 • June 2013

Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.

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How stress affects your brain

8,284,950 views | Madhumita Murgia | TED-Ed • November 2015

Stress isn’t always a bad thing; it can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when you’re playing a competitive sport or have to speak in public. But when it’s continuous, it actually begins to change your brain. Madhumita Murgia shows how chronic stress can affect brain size, its structure, and how it functions, right down to the level of your genes. [Directed by Andrew Zimbelman, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Josh Smoak].

How stress affects your body

8,120,801 views | Sharon Horesh Bergquist | TED-Ed • October 2015

Our hard-wired stress response is designed to give us the quick burst of heightened alertness and energy needed to perform our best. But stress isn’t all good. When activated too long or too often, stress can damage virtually every part of our body. Sharon Horesh Bergquist gives us a look at what goes on inside our body when we are chronically stressed. [Directed by Adriatic Animation, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Jure Buljević].

Finding Humanity in a Psychological Quagmire

What have we become, we compete rather than collaborate, we show fear instead of respect, we are divided and avoid unity, we prefer chaos over harmony, it has to be this OR that way without recognising the potential of cooperation.

On Emotional Health

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Asleep while Awake

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