Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
stress negative looks
Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.
stress
It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.
stress negative engagement
Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.
stress numbers balance
The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.
real stress thinking
The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.
stress people engagement
People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.
stress people remember
Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.
country religious supernatural-beings
Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.
stress feel-better needs
You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.
sick want helping
When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.
jobs husband believe
To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.
stress thinking reason
The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
worry balance hormones
The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.
stress moving light
The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.