09/04/2025
I mentioned to a client recently - change the emotional setting of your work space!
Create a calming atmosphere - add a picture 🌅 you like, remove clutter, play soft music 🎶, paint the wall behind your screen - something, anything to make “work” less emotionally charged.
You might not “feel” stressed, but your body remembers the stress sensations of all the previous times and uses those neural pathways to create pain and inflammation.
Take back your health by changing emotions associated with places and remove fear/anxiety from things like “sitting” or “moving wrong”
Your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts.
When you think stressful thoughts, you activate transcription factors that turn on inflammatory genes. Inflammatory thoughts create inflammation in your body.
This stress response system evolved to help us survive acute threats - like running from a saber-toothed tiger. Your body floods with cortisol, blood sugar spikes, heart rate jumps. Perfect for short-term survival.
Stress is simply the perception of a real or imagined threat. Same input, different perception = completely different physiological response.
The solution isn’t avoiding stress - it’s changing your relationship to it. How you discharge it. How you perceive it. Your thoughts are literally your medicine or your poison. Choose wisely.
