And it was a physiological response.

I also put in here the stress response.

When you change your mind about stress, you can change your body's response to stress.

Stress is a general biological response to a potential danger.

Before they went through the social stress test, they were taught to rethink their stress response as helpful.

And when you view stress in that way, your body believes you, and your stress response becomes healthier.

Your pituitary gland pumps this stuff out as part of the stress response.

I find this amazing, that your stress response has a built in mechanism for stress resilience, and that mechanism is human connection.

What's our response to physical stress, like a fast paced game of field hockey after school?

And so over time, this becomes a stress response, which has enormous effects on the body.

And when oxytocin is released in the stress response, it is motivating you to seek support.

When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.

First is physiological. (Loud alarm clocks)

It's as much a part of your stress response as the adrenaline that makes your heart pound.

And participants who learned to view the stress response as helpful for their performance, well, they were less stressed out, less anxious, more confident, but the most fascinating finding to me was how their physical stress response changed.

Now, in a typical stress response, your heart rate goes up, and your blood vessels constrict like this.

Your biological stress response is nudging you to tell someone how you feel instead of bottling it up.

When life is difficult, your stress response wants you to be surrounded by people who care about you.

That is an absolutely fundamental physiological principle.

But in the study, when participants viewed their stress response as helpful, their blood vessels stayed relaxed like this.

let it realize its desires, its physiological distinctiveness.

Response

So if you put these physiological processes to work,

Stress and frustration

I want to tell you about one of the most under appreciated aspects of the stress response, and the idea is this

Server response

HTTP Response

No response

Busy response

Hangup response

Ring response

DLP response

Escape response

Response Requested

Camera response

My response?

My response

I'm always under stress.

Stress makes you social.

It's a stress hormone.

Under great emotional stress.

Stress Fractures in Titanium.

Your stress response wants to make sure you notice when someone else in your life is struggling so that you can support each other.

I'm testing him only for psychological reactions, not for physiological changes.

So physiological arousal predicted, in this study, attitudes toward gay marriage.