Mindful Stress Management

di Aisling Deanna MacBride (Autore)

Hardcore Publish LLC, 2025

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. The alarm clock screams at six in the morning, jolting you from restless sleep. Your phone immediately floods your consciousness with notifications, emails, news alerts, and social media updates. Before your feet even touch the floor, your nervous system is already in overdrive, preparing for another day of relentless demands, impossible deadlines, and constant connectivity. This has become the modern human experience, a perpetual state of low-grade panic that we've somehow normalized as simply "being busy" or "staying productive." Stress, once an adaptive response that helped our ancestors survive immediate physical threats, has evolved into a chronic condition that pervades every aspect of contemporary life. The saber-toothed tiger may be extinct, but our sympathetic nervous system hasn't received the memo. Instead of facing occasional life-or-death situations, we now navigate a continuous stream of perceived threats: work pressures, financial concerns, relationship challenges, health anxieties, environmental disasters, political upheaval, and the overwhelming pace of technological change. The statistics paint a sobering picture. According to recent studies, chronic stress affects nearly 75% of adults, contributing to everything from cardiovascular disease and diabetes to depression and anxiety disorders. We live in a time when stress-related illness has become one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, yet we continue to wear our busyness like a badge of honor, mistaking exhaustion for achievement and burnout for dedication.

• Autore: Aisling Deanna MacBride
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 00:56:39
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Hardcore Publish LLC
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9798318277580