Don't Stress

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Your heart starts pounding, blood pressure soars and you begin to take shorter faster breaths. Why do we put every cell in our body through such a traumatic experience?

Stress was hard wired into our bodies for those face to face moments with mountain lions. It’s called fight or flight. Mountain lions don’t seem to bother us anymore so we’ve repurposed this reaction to things like client deadlines, idiots on the freeway, and that bar that plays horrible music on wednesday nights below my loft. I’ve decided for myself this is unacceptable so here is what I’m doing to combat this ridiculous instinct.

Stress is very counter productive and we need to be more aware of how stupid it is.