"Stress is inevitable in life in life and how we approach it will flavour our experience."
Jill Bolte- Taylor
Jill Bolte- Taylor
In the MBSR course, I teach we begin by using a 16th-century definition of the word stress.
"The sore pressure or strain of adversity, trouble, hunger, sickness, pain, or sorrow; anguish or affliction affecting the body, spirit, or community."
I like this definition for many reasons. It honours this phenomenon of stress, elevating it to distress. We often fob off the experience of
"The sore pressure or strain of adversity, trouble, hunger, sickness, pain, or sorrow; anguish or affliction affecting the body, spirit, or community."
I like this definition for many reasons. It honours this phenomenon of stress, elevating it to distress. We often fob off the experience of
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