{"id":1133,"date":"2022-09-15T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prieducationalconsulting.com\/staging\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2022-09-15T16:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T20:02:31","slug":"stresswhy-do-you-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prieducationalconsulting.com\/staging\/stresswhy-do-you-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress: Why Do You Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Are you experiencing stress? Why should you care? It may mean that something or someone you care about is involved. According to Dan Harris in the Ten Percent Happier<\/a> Stress Better Meditation Challenge Series, stress can be a signal that something matters to you. Professor Modupe Akinola<\/a> of Columbia University suggests that when you realize you are stressed try to find out why you care. She calls this a \u2018reappraisal\u2019 of the stress and states that one way to NOT feel as much stress is to figure out the underlying reason why you care<\/em>. Rather than focusing on the cause of the stress, focus on why you care about what\u2019s causing the stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some steps they suggest from the Ten Percent Happier Stress Better Challenge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n