IMPACT
Stress
Physiological, emotional, and behavioral responses to stressors.
Stress is a normal part of life.
Stress is essential to human functioning.
Stress gives you energy and helps you perform.
Stress alerts you to threat and helps keep you safe.
Yet too much stress negatively impacts your wellbeing.
ILR practitioners use good stress to focus on language learning and do many other things.
Good Stress
also known as eustress
ILR practitioners also face bad stress that impairs functioning and drains your life force.
Bad Stress
also known as distress
Stress is an embodied response.
Embodied responses to “perceived” threat and “real” threat have the same impact on body, mind, and spirit.
Real Grizzly Bear
Colonial Grizzly Bear
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Embodied response
How body, mind, and spirit react to the world based on individual and collective experience.
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That’s why developing internal awareness of your embodied responses is important.
So you can exercise agency over the impacts of stress on your wellbeing.
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Internal awareness
Paying attention to what happens in your body, mind, and spirit as an ILR practitioner.
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Agency
The influence you exert over your embodied responses.
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REFLECTION