PDP - Ep150 - Mind Over Matter: Mastering Stress in Your Life

We all deal with various kinds of stress each day, but let’s talk about dealing with high stress situations
What causes stress?
Positive and Negative Effects of Stress
The mind-stress Connection: How the mind responds to stress perception and response
Relationship between thoughts, emotion and stress
Developing Stress Inoculation
Dealing with Chronic Stress vs Acute Stress
Using breathing to control physiological effects of stress
Concentration exercises to focus the mind of relevant thoughts and ignore unhelpful thoughts that create bad stress
Changing and controlling thoughts can change stress reactions. Instead of framing obstacles and challenges as problems, ask your mind how you can use them to make progress
These techniques need to be practiced over time and with repetition.
What the hell does any of this have to do with dog training?