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did you realize that chronic stress destroys your ability

to experience pleasure now when you experience

short-term stress your cortisol spikes and there’s a hormone called dopamine

that will increase initially dopamine is involved

with pleasure and in this case it can act as

a protective counter effect from the stress when you

go through stress over a long period of time you’re

constantly triggering dopamine to the point where the receptors for dopamine

start downgrading to the point where it doesn’t work

anymore and the same thing happens with chronic consumption of sugar drugs

certain medications will do the same thing with stress and high cortisol over

a long period of time you may notice that it’s more difficult

to experience pleasure you’re less motivated you’re less awake

or an alert and you basically just have more stress because there’s no

more counter hormone to kind of buffer that

what can you do about that let’s give you a couple things to do number one

you need to get more sleep a lot more sleep sleep is one of the best things to

counter stress if you can’t sleep the whole

night then try to figure out a way that you

can take a nap through the day but it’s the volume of sleep that can

really help you counter stress just lack of sleep in general will keep

your cortisol elevated number two decrease

fear in your life the number one thing to do is stop

watching the news in fact i had an idea i wanted to do a clinical experiment

with a number of people to document this because i know this is true and evaluate

someone’s cortisol levels dopamine levels

the immune system from just two weeks of watching the news regular news right

then to compare that with a group of people that watch

no news whatsoever i will guarantee there will be significant changes and

improvement just by not watching the news for two

weeks in fact you should just try this right now

stop watching the news for two to three days

and just see how you feel and then go back to watch the news and see how you

feel then you can decide what will be the

better thing to do number three exercise will give you more oxygen it

reduces stress get out nature more go for walks hikes

in nature it’s a huge therapy and you already know that but i’m just

making note of this and number four isolate the source of your stress what

is the number one source of stress in your life go ahead and type it down

in the comments section right now now what you do is you attack the source

of that stress do whatever you can to eliminate

that stress or at least reduce it now if you’re in a situation where

you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place where you can’t do

anything about it find a part of that stress

situation that you can do something about and do something about it

and then when the stress gets better you find another part of that stress that

you can do something about handle that until it’s manageable if you

haven’t seen my stress webinar that’s a really important one i

put it up right here check it out