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Taming Stress

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Ten simple, guided lessons on how to keep your stress under control. – 10-day journey with clear, professional guidance – Suitable for beginners and those with experience – Studio-quality sound and gentle background music – A practical, down-to-earth approach From Practico with love ❤️

Episodes

  1. EPISODE 1

    Day 1 — Wild Cats From the Past

    Hello and welcome to the new practice! During the next ten lessons, we will focus on stress. One might say that we should try to eliminate it from our lives, but that wouldn't be entirely wise. In reality, stress is an important mechanism that protects us from danger. It helped our distant ancestors escape from ferocious predators and overcome harsh environmental conditions. Now, as far as we know, the saber-toothed tigers are gone, and natural disasters are not omni-present threats. But stress still plays an important role.

    11 min

  2. EPISODE 2 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Day 2 — The Magnifying Glass

    Welcome to the second day of the course. Each of us has our own reasons to stress. For some, it's a bad day at work. For others, it's concern about the future while still others are haunted by past mistakes. Sometimes everything piles up all at once. When we pay too much attention to these problems, they seem as big as a spider under a magnifying glass.We start to think they are massive, dangerous predators about to do something horrible. When these problems add up, the brain can no longer handle them. And then we begin to feel trapped.

    10 min

  3. EPISODE 3 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Day 3 — Creative Freedom

    Hello, and welcome to the third day of practice. In the last lesson, we learned about the visualization technique. We used our imagination to paint typical images. The sun, the sunlight. We tried to envision how the warmth fills our bodies. Today, let's open our minds even further and try to imagine something unusual, something beyond the spectrum of the images most familiar to us. Today, your visualizations can assume the shape and form of whatever you wish. Just like when you were a child and you had a blank sheet of paper in front of you, a kit of multicolored paint and no rules to follow.

    10 min

  4. EPISODE 4 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Day 4 — Light and Emotion

    Hello, this is the fourth lesson in our course devoted to the topic of stress. Let's remember the image we drew last time. The source of light above your head, its color, shape, movements. We will use this image for the rest of the course. You can add or change the details, however you, and most importantly, your imagination sees fit. But today, we will try to focus not only on the image, but also on the sensations and emotions that it evokes.

    10 min

  5. EPISODE 6 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Day 6 — The Source of Light

    Hey, glad to see you beyond the halfway mark. Daily meditations are a great way to be alone with yourself, untangle your mind, and look at your problems from the outside. However, it's not always possible to sit down and meditate every time something disturbs or annoys you. It's time to talk about how to apply this practice in regular life settings.

    10 min

  6. EPISODE 7 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Day 7 — Your Inner Circle

    Hello, and welcome to the seventh day of practice. All too often, we can't determine the real cause of our stress. Sometimes there are too many causes. Sometimes there's a physiological reason, and sometimes we just don't want to acknowledge them. Then our brain begins to associate stress with random events, objects, and people. For example, we get angry at the laggy internet, get upset about burning an omelet, or start nonsense fights with our friends. Generally, it's the people closest to us who catch us in the heat of the moment. We unconsciously associate our stress with their actions and break down over small things. After a while, we realize that we've said too much, but this only makes us more stressed. I want you to think about other people today.

    11 min

  7. EPISODE 8 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Day 8 — Ponies & Ice Cream

    Hello, and welcome to lesson 8. I hope that by this point you're quite comfortable with the visualization technique. But you may be wondering, why visualization? What does it have to do with imagining some kind of light? We could visualize pistachio ice cream, a white pony or a hammock on a tropical beach. But some people don't have a sweet tooth. Some are afraid of horses, and others may prefer holidays up on a snowy mountain. Light and warmth are universal concepts that are usually associated with pleasant emotions and relaxation. Do you agree?

    11 min

  8. EPISODE 9 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Day 9 — Looking from the Outside

    Glad to see you on the ninth day of the course. A couple of sessions ago, we talked about the fact that the brain tends to look for simple explanations for everything. Similarly, it tends to look for simple solutions. Therefore, we expect to never experience negative emotions and to become as calm and relaxed as a Tibetan monk after a few meditations. Of course, these expectations are not justified. We get upset about it, begin looking for explanations again, and feel even more negative. Then we start flipping the pages again, searching for an easy way to deal with stress. Let's be honest, meditation will not solve all your problems. It will help you deal with the outcomes more easily. But to get rid of stress, you still have to address the real cause.

    11 min

  9. EPISODE 10 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Day 10 — One More Time

    I'm so glad to see you made it to the very end. I want to take a look back at everything we've talked about and learned. Stress is not a disease that must be cured. It's a normal reaction to all kinds of unexpected circumstances. When something doesn't go as planned or we're faced with unforeseen obstacles, our brain must try to figure it all out. This wonderful mechanism helps us evolve and adapt. The real problem begins when we start to feel stress, or rather the unpleasant emotions and feelings and sensations that come with it. This happens when the brain is overwhelmed and goes into panic mode. The issue may be small, but the brain sort of looks at it through a magnifying glass, which makes it seem big and dangerous. We instinctively start looking for causes of stress and find them everywhere, in familiar things, situations, and the people closest to us. After that, we begin to arrive at knee-jerk solutions, and when they don't work, we get even more upset. Our task is to break this cycle, to stop, look at our emotions from the outside, and assess the real scale of our problems. The visualization technique helps achieve this, which you will eventually learn to apply in situations beyond these lessons.

    15 min

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    Day 5 — The Art of Being Okay

    Hello, and welcome to Lesson 5. So stress is a normal human reaction to things that seem big and dangerous. You cannot avoid stress entirely because it's an important evolutionary mechanism in your brain that allows you to adapt to new conditions. Even during meditation, you can get stressed if something doesn't work out for you. For example, your thoughts can overwhelm you, making it difficult to sit still and irritating you as a result. When this occurs, your gut reaction may be an angry wish to stop the exercise. But try not to worry, for you have arrived at the essence of meditation, the place for letting go of fretful thoughts.

    10 min
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Ten simple, guided lessons on how to keep your stress under control. – 10-day journey with clear, professional guidance – Suitable for beginners and those with experience – Studio-quality sound and gentle background music – A practical, down-to-earth approach From Practico with love ❤️

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