Welcome to Part One, that stress brain. Today we are going to get to know your stress brain and understand more about your stress levels where it comes from, and what your stress looks like. You probably are familiar with the part of you that panics that freaks out that gets super overwhelmed. Our brains are designed to protect us to scan for danger, to make sure we are safe. This is a really, really good thing. But as our lives have been developing over the years, we don't need that same kind of protection that we used to back in the day.

The type of protection that would protect us that there's a tiger insight that is going to eat us. So we need to turn on that fight or flight system to know what to do next do we run or what the types of stresses we have nowadays are very different. From those, they are not that kind of life threatening. And we want to be able to differentiate with the different two types of stress. So I want you to consider the types that truly put you in a life threatening situation to be natural stress. The part of us that is harm our primitive brain that is meant to protect us and is doing their job, right?

Then there are the false stresses, the parts of us that we stress about different things in the world that aren't actually going to take our life away. I call these false stresses because they don't require us to turn on that fight or flight system to save our life in that kind of way. We're used to, we can actually turn this false stress into something more productive and useful. So it can actually help us move from In the way that we are meant to win, we move into that fight or flight system constantly and are constantly stressed out, it really taxes our body, and it lowers our immune system. So I want to show you how to use stress in a way that we can transform this energy in a way that is actually really useful for you. So let's look at what kind of things you get stressed about right now.

What is our stress brain stressing out about? I want you to write down a list. You can get a notebook for this whole section. And I want you to write down all the things that you're stressing about. What are the things that are constantly on your mind that are stressful? And I want you to keep writing that list as long as you possibly can.

Because we really want to get to know what is inside that stress brain And then after you do that entire list, I want you to then on the other side of the column, identify, is this a natural stress where it's threatening my life? Or is this a false stress? Something that I can channel and use in a different way. Now before you want to argue with me about what actually is a false stress versus a natural stress, on a very basic level, I just want you to think about am I actually about to die in this situation. And then you're going to see how we can use this false stress in another way. All right, in a way that's going to be more useful.

I also think of it in that way. The use the natural stresses that are protecting our life is useful stress. We want to know if there's the tiger over there that's about to eat us. But the false stress is usually not very useful because it causes us to spiral downwards. It causes us to freeze. It causes us to not show up as our best selves, which is what I want to create for you.

Because as you transform these false stressors, you will see your life open up, you will see your mind open up in so many beautiful ways. And that's the process I want to take you through all of these parts. So first, go ahead and get to know your stress brain. Write down all the things you're stressing about, and then identify Is this a natural stress or a false stress? All right, catch you on the next one.