Stress Surfing: How to Stop Being Afraid of Stress and Turn It to Your Advantage

Stress is your natural reaction to any changes. It is a universal survival mechanism. Resisting stress is as futile as battling bad weather. But you oddly have a choice: to fight until exhaustion, fall into depression, avoid difficulties, or make them work for you. Stress can become a source of energy, inspiration, hyper-productivity, and even happiness. A unique authorial strategy of stress surfing will help you develop your emotional competence and physical stress resilience, master mindfulness and self-training skills. Armed with a rich arsenal of unconventional life hacks and psychological techniques, you can use your stress to improve the quality of your life and move forward and upward even faster.

This book offers a unique, authorial perspective on the problem of stress. The essence is that you should not fight against stress, but rather use the moments when stress arises for self-improvement. After all, stress mobilizes a person's energy, and with proper training, you can learn to direct that energy not towards destruction, not towards empty worry, as is usually the case, but towards creation and self-perfection.