Get Up And Do Something: Training the brain to stress less

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Training the brain to stress less Oct 20th 2012, 11:38 Train the brain. Until recently, this phrase made me picture Neo from "The Matrix" proclaiming "I know kung fu" after he had martial arts abilities uploaded into his brain. But what if we really could harness technology, Neo-style, to help train our brains to better cope with everyday stress? For many of us, the days seem to pass in one anxiety-ridden blur after another. Mental health professional increasingly agree that these daily sprints, accompanied by a soundtrack of endless beeps, chirps and vibrations emitting from various devices, set off our stress systems, keeping us in a persistent and physiologically damaging state of fight-or-flight.

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