Dr. Mininni touched upon mindfulness meditation as well and how meditation is just as important as working out the body but it is for the brain. Scientifically, meditation was effective for people with chronic pain and train the brain to focusing on the present without judging it good or bad. The impact of mindfulness on the brain showed that the calmness of a person can be manipulated by just focusing on the present through …show more content…
For example, the way a person carries out their day based on their own stressors can be different to another person because not everyone manages them in the same way. According to Dr. Mininni’s views and her “tool kit”, she says that you have to find a go to strategy to use to cope and overcome that stress. Stress management also relates to the way people handle their stress. From the video, Dr. Mininni says that from one of her research studies on health and stress was that being isolated without connection to anyone was the same as smoking 15 cigarettes. We need other people to thrive in life, we need connection with others. People with social support lived longer than the people who did not. It is so important to have acquaintances just for a support system. That opened my eyes on the matter of stress management because I have been very happy most of my life I have many friends I am comfortable with to talk about anything happening in my life. Now I feel the importance of having wide variety of friends as well as being optimistic about your stressors can have a huge impact on how to thrive through stressors coming up on your path. Being optimistic on your stressors could be dealt with by simply writing down the good things that happened instead of constantly thinking about the negatives that build on your stress. Overall, I’ve gained a lot of personally tools to