Emma M. Seppälä

This book encourages readers to live a stress-free (or at least, less stressful) life by listing volumes of research that linked lower stress to more successful outcomes in terms of professional success, health, charisma.....etc. She listed six specific means to lower stress in life, including developing "self-compassion" (I think this means being nice to yourself, rather than being critical.....okay I don't really understand what it means even after I explained it. I don't understand intra-communication.), incorporating downtime into your schedule, and having a grateful and compassionate attitude toward the world. She often suggested meditation and breathing techniques as means to lower stress. But when discussing meditation, she briefly mentioned that research showed prayer works pretty well too :P. She taught a breathing technique that involves covering one nostril, breathe through the other nostril, then cover that other nostril and breathe through the first nostril. She says you will experience a significant difference after five minutes. (I will never do this exercise in the presence of another person, but I somehow really want to watch others do it :D :D :D )… (altro)