Training ourselves to remain calm while our body is activated helps manage medium-term stress and makes it more tolerable.

The brain can fabricate negative outcomes based on past experiences, conditioning the body to relive those emotions daily.

Errors during practice are essential as they cue your nervous system for error correction and open the door for neuroplasticity, allowing your brain to adapt and learn.

To increase distress tolerance, we need to proactively engage in practices like yoga nidra, mindfulness, and physical exercise, which help us manage stress better.

Practicing gratitude can help you become skilled at feeling positive emotions, just as practicing anger can make you good at being angry.

We need to learn to turn off our stress response from a young age to manage stress effectively throughout life.

To effectively form habits, focus on the state of your brain and body rather than the specific time of day; this will help you anchor your habits more effectively.

Instead of reaching for your phone first thing in the morning, try to consciously decide how you want to feel and what changes you want to make in your life. This practice can help you break free from habitual responses and create a more intentional start to your day.

Practicing takes patience and focus; it may feel long, but the actual time spent can be shorter than expected due to the intensity of concentration.