Anxiety can leave you overwhelmed and scared.
But he’s still trying.
Here are 9 other natural ways to calm your anxious body:
1. Dip your face in cold water.
20 minutes of drawing lowered CORTISOL in 3 out of 4 people.
But drawing can do something stranger:
It can show you what you’ve been carrying before you have words for it.
1. Doodle for 10 minutes.
If you're a founder, an executive, or the professional everyone escalates to — wide awake at 3 AM running problems, on fumes by noon, out of patience the second you're through your own front door:
This is for you (especially if you're over 40).
Here's how I fix it:
75% of people lowered their CORTISOL after making art.
(2016 research study)
You don't have to be an artist.
Here are 7 simple ways drawing can calm your nervous system:
1. Doodle for 10 minutes.
The most socially acceptable way to destroy your life:
Overthink everything.
Act on nothing.
Your mind calls it “figuring things out.”
Tolle’s 7 ways to get out of your head: 👇
1. Notice the voice in your head that comments on EVERYTHING.
@matthew_labosco Congratulations!
May you all be happy, healthy and loved.
Thank you for sharing your story and knowledge about stress — roots, impacts and fixes.
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Una psiquiatra de Stanford demostró que que vivir sin dolor ni aburrimiento es la causa real depresión y ansiedad.
Reveló 5 hábitos que haces cada día y que destruyen tu cerebro:
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1. Coger el móvil ante la mínima incomodidad.
If your brain won't shut off, it's cortisol.
If you can't stop overthinking, it's cortisol.
If you second-guess everything, it's cortisol.
Here's how to fix all three at once:
1. Take a 10-minute walk without your phone.
If your face is puffy, it's cortisol.
If your belly won't shift, it's cortisol.
If you're wired but tired, it's cortisol.
Here's how to fix all three at once:
1. No food 3 hours before bed.
You think you're unhappy because life is hard.
Wrong.
You're unhappy because you're still operating at infant-level selfishness with adult-level expectations.
Happiness can't be found in gratitude journals or positive thinking.
If you understand the INVERSE relationship between your talent stack and your need to be selfish, you'll find happiness.
When you're born, you're 100% selfish, 0% capable. Perfect equilibrium. Society expects nothing from you.
They age chronologically but not competency-wise. They hit 30, 40, 50...still operating from scarcity, still locked in survival mode, still taking more than they give.
The stress you feelis the cognitive dissonance between where you ARE (high selfishness, low talent) and where you SHOULD BE on the developmental curve.
Your path to meaning is mathematical:
Accumulate talents → Eliminate personal scarcity → Reduce selfish need → Turn outward → Experience meaning
Every moment you stay below the curve...high selfishness, low capability....you're in psychological debt. The interest compounds as stress, anxiety, emptiness.
The solution is to BUILD POWER through talent acquisition until selfishness becomes *optional*, not necessary.
Only then does happiness become accessible. Only then does meaning emerge.
The biggest misconception is that you can transcend selfishness through willpower but in actuality, it's through competence.