The hardest part about self-talk is that you can’t switch it off. When life is bumping along in a largely positive fashion, that’s not an issue. But if you’ve suddenly woken up to the realisation that your thought patterns are routinely becoming more ‘glass half empty’, then it may be time to take a step…
When you change your mindset about stress, you can change how your body responds to it. Kelly McGonigal imparts scientific proof that when you view stress as your friend, your responses to it become positive, rather than harmful.
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin thinks there’s a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations, when your thinking becomes clouded — the pre-mortem. “We all are going to fail now and then,” he says. “The idea is to think ahead to what those failures might be.”
