What causes stress and what will relieve it?

If work-life balance isn't the cause of our stress, what is?

Can you reorder your stress environment

These and other urgent questions for our personal well-being when anti-stress guru Eliz Greene joins The Rabbi and the Shrink.

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1:00 Lessons from cardiac arrest while carrying twins

A bubble of contentment protects us from tragedy and trauma

Where we want to be vs. where we need to be

It’s harder to watch someone you love going through uncertainty

Denying our pain can be fatal

Subtle pain can be just as deadly as intense pain

9:00 Gauging early warning signs against the fear of hypochondria

Job stress can have consequences at home

What causes stress and what will relieve it?

Overwhelm and uncertainty

NOT work-life balance

95% of our efforts are trying to solve the wrong problem

15:00 Stress is good in crisis, but dangerous when chronic

We’re stressed about being stressed

First responders are most at risk for stress

Pay attention to what you’re experiencing

20:00 What we can do to release stress

Changing focus relieves our cortisol level

The power celebrating little victories

The time and place for stoicism

Problem-solvers are vulnerable to difficult-to-solve problems

Wonderful is not always relaxing

Unreasonable expectations are the source of anxiety

27:00  We don’t live in joy all the time

Joy vs. contentment

How to keep stress outside my bubble

The sticky note solution

Can you reorder your stress environment

Ethics requires us to balance our responsibilities to others and to ourselves

We can’t mortgage ours health for the benefit of the team

32:00  We don’t do what we should because we know we should

Visualize what-ifs and what-if-nots

“I will because…”

Meet the goal, know why it’s important, do it your own way

Rebuke = validation, if it’s done the right way for the right reasons

The power of reward systems

47:00 The Word of the Day:  Averted vision

We perceive brightness and color through the cones that are concentrated in the fovea, the central part of the eye.  Fainter objects are more easily detected by the rods, which occupy the outer regions of the eye and perceive dim, monochromatic light.

First alluded to by Aristotle, the phenomenon called averted vision allows us to process information by looking away from an object of interest, just as a filter makes it possible to study the nuances of the sun’s surface by eliminating the intense light that makes direct observation impossible.  Since the cones that make up the fovea register brighter light, we have to rely on the peripheral rods to capture subtleties of shading.  But that only works when we look away.

We can overlook what’s right in front of us no matter how important it is

Consequences live at the periphery of our vision

Looking away can help us see more clearly