Others' Stress
"One thing I've decided not to stress about this year is other people getting stressed. As a physician and teacher at a medical school, I have patients, research assistants, students and other mentees, not to mention my colleagues that I work with on a daily basis -- and what can be a pretty stressful environment. When someone comes in with a problem, or is stressed about something, my natural tendency is to want to help -- to help make their stress go away. But I can get stressed trying to help (especially if there is no easy solution, which often there isn't)! Obviously, when the stress in the room goes up, I'm going to be less helpful, and they are going to feel less helped. So, I'm practicing just noticing that feeling of stress as it comes on so I don't feed it, and so I don't get stressed about others getting stressed." -- Judson Brewer, M.D., Ph.D, medical director of <a href="www.ytnc.yale.edu" target="_blank">Yale Therapeutic Neuroscience Clinic</a>
via http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/05/dont-stress-health-and-wellness-experts_n_3001094.html?utm_hp_ref=healthy-living
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