Wendy Berry Mendes

My body is doing just what it should right now.

So that reframing in studies by Wendy Mendes and others, my, my colleagues who do this reappraisal research, they have basically trained people to view stress as positive.

During the stressful situations in the lab, people do better.

They perform better.

Why don't we, why don't we think of both and rather than either or? That's emotional health.

What about physical health? Wendy Mendes out of the University of California says that at a biological level, we find that people who are higher in gratitude have lower resting blood pressure.

Wow.

She says when we expose them to a stressor, they also respond with lower blood pressure responses.