冤孽TED英语演讲稿：如何跟压力做朋友_演讲稿

2021年1月22日发(作者：变量英文)
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英语演讲稿：如何跟压力做朋友


压力大，怎么办< br>?
压力会让你心跳加速、呼吸加快、额头冒汗
!
当压力成为全民健康公敌时，< br>有研究显示只有当你与压力为敌时，
它
才会危害你的健康。心理学家
Kelly McGonigal
从积极的一面分析
压力，教你如何使压力变成你的朋友
!
Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken
and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into
a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may
only
be
bad
for
you
if
you
believe
that
to
be
the
case.
Psychologist
Kelly
McGonigal
urges
us
to
see
stress
as
a
positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress
reduction: reaching out to others.
Kelly
McGonigal
translates
academic
research
into
practical
strategies
for
health,
happiness
and
personal
success.
Why you should listen to her
：

Stanford
University
psychologist
Kelly
McGonigal
is
a
leader
in
the
growing
field
of
“science
-
help.”
Through
books,
articles, courses and workshops, McGonigal works to help us
understand and implement the latest scientific findings in

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psychology, neuroscience and medicine.
Straddling
the
worlds of research
and
practice,
McGonigal
holds
positions
in
both
the
Stanford
Graduate
School
of
Business
and
the
School
of
Medicine.
Her
most
recent
book,
The
Willpower
Instinct,
explores
the
latest
research
on
motivation,
temptation and procrastination, as well as what it takes to
transform
habits,
persevere
at
challenges
and
make
a
successful
change.
She is now researching a new book about the
stress,
which
will
look
at
both
why
stress
is
good
for
us,
and
what
makes
us
good
at
stress.
In
her
words:

old
understanding of stress as a unhelpful relic of our animal
instincts is being replaced by the understanding that stress
actually makes us socially smart -- it's what allows us to be
fully human.
I have a confession to make, but first, I want you to make
a
little
confession
to
me.
In
the
past
year,
I
want
you
to
just
raise your hand
if you've experienced relatively little stress. Anyone?
How about a moderate amount of stress?
Who has experienced a lot of stress? Yeah. Me too.

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But
that
is
not
my confession. My
confession
is
this:
I
am
a health psychologist, and my mission is to help people be
happier and healthier. But I fear that something I've been
teaching for the last 10 years is doing more harm than good,
and
it
has
to
do
with
stress.
For
years
I've
been
telling
people,
stress
makes
you
sick.
It
increases
the
risk
of
everything
from
the common cold to cardiovascular disease. Basically, I've
turned stress into the enemy.
But
I
have
changed
my
mind
about
stress, and today, I want to change yours.
Let me start with the study that made me rethink my whole
approach to stress. This study tracked 30,000 adults in the
United
States
for
eight
years,
and
they
started
by
asking
people,

also asked,
health?
who died.
(Laughter)
Okay.
Some
bad
news
first.
People
who
experienced
a
lot
of
stress in
the previous
year
had a
43 percent
increased risk
of
dying. But that
was
only
true
for
the
people
who
also
believed
that stress is harmful for your health. (Laughter) People who

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experienced
a lot
of
stress
but did
not view
stress
as harmful
were no more likely to die. In fact, they had the lowest risk
of dying
of anyone in
the study, including people who had
relatively little stress.
Now the researchers estimated that over the eight years
they
were
tracking
deaths,
182,000
Americans
died
prematurely,
not
from
stress,
but
from
the
belief
that
stress
is
bad
for
you.
(Laughter) That is over 20,000 deaths a year. Now, if that
estimate is correct, that would make believing stress is bad
for you the 15th largest cause of death in the United States
last year, killing more people than skin cancer, HIV/AIDS and
homicide.
(Laughter)
You can see why this study freaked me out. Here I've been
spending so much energy telling people stress is bad for your
health.
So
this
study
got
me
wondering:
Can
changing
how
you
think
about
stress
make
you
healthier?
And
here
the
science
says
yes.
When you change your mind about stress, you can change your
body's response to stress.
Now to explain how this works, I want you all to pretend

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that
you
are
participants
in
a
study
designed
to
stress
you
out.
It's
called
the
social
stress
test.
You
come
into
the
laboratory,
and
you're
told
you
have
to
give
a
five- minute
impromptu
speech
on your personal weaknesses to a panel of expert evaluators
sitting right in front of you, and to make sure you feel the
pressure, there are bright lights and a camera in your face,
kind
of
like
this.
And
the
evaluators
have
been
trained
to
give
you discouraging, non-verbal feedback like this.
(Laughter)
Now
that
you're
sufficiently
demoralized,
time
for
part
two:
a
math
test.
And
unbeknownst
to
you,
the
experimenter
has
been
trained
to
harass
you
during
it.
Now
we're
going
to
all
do
this
together. It's going to be fun. For me.
Okay.
I
want
you
all
to
count
backwards
from
996
in
increments of seven. You're going to do this out loud as fast
as you can, starting with 996. Go! Audience: (Counting) Go
faster.
Faster
please.
You're
going
too
slow.
Stop.
Stop,
stop,
stop. That guy made a mistake. We are going to have to start
all over again. (Laughter) You're not very good at this, are
you? Okay, so you get the idea. Now, if you were actually in
this
study,
you'd
probably
be
a
little
stressed
out.
Your
heart

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might
be
pounding,
you
might
be
breathing
faster,
maybe
breaking out into a sweat. And normally, we interpret these
physical
changes
as
anxiety
or
signs
that
we
aren't
coping
very
well with the pressure.
But
what
if
you
viewed
them
instead
as
signs
that
your
body
was energized, was preparing you to meet this challenge? Now
that
is
exactly
what
participants
were
told
in
a
study
conducted
at Harvard University. Before they went through the social
stress
test,
they
were
taught
to
rethink
their
stress
response
as helpful. That pounding heart is preparing you for action.
If
you're
breathing
faster,
it's
no
problem.
It's
getting
more
oxygen
to
your
brain.
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. And
this is one of the reasons that chronic stress is sometimes
associated
with
cardiovascular
disease.
It's
not
really
healthy
to
be
in
this
state
all
the
time.
But
in
the
study,
when
participants viewed their stress response as helpful, their

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