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There is no doubt that stress is dangerous. It makes you ill, sad, robs you of joys in your life, and stops you from thinking clearly, and your problem-solving abilities are affected greatly. This affects your decision making, career, and even relationships.
When you are stressed, you activate the fight or flight response in that part of your brain that is called – the Amygdala. And this is a very primitive response, which immediately makes your body think it is in mortal danger (whereas most of the time our stress has nothing to do with any danger to our lives). And when your body and mind are in this mode, your thinking capacity goes down, the focus goes into your muscles, to save your life because your body thinks you might need to fight for your life or flee from danger. Imagine this — if you are being chased by a man-eating lion in a jungle, are...