The Neuroscience of HappYness - Part 6 Good Stress, or EUSTRESS! (Part B): (Saturday, 18th May 2019) Reading time: Approximately 5 minutes (1054 words) The word “eustress” is the combination of two words – “eu” meaning good, and “stress” – so eustress simply means “Good stress.” And here it would be very useful to remember what Shakespeare mentions in Hamlet: 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. since nothing is really good or

The Neuroscience of HappYness - Part 5 Part A of Stress, or more accurately, DISTRESS! (Saturday, 11th May 2019) Reading time approximately 5 minutes Continuing from Part 4, how do you ensure that you do not lose brain cells? The common thinking is that stress is the biggest lifestyle ailment. That stress kills brain cells, damages DNA, makes one age faster, and it even kills people. I have penned a few articles earlier that stress is the most common cause of all human a