For years, health psychologist has been telling people that stress makes us sick, It increases the risk of everything from simple health illness like common colds to cardiovascular disease.

Basically, us people has been forced and looked at stress as an enemy due to every article that we read, advises from doctors, friends and other professionals.

A study was conducted in the US which involves 30000 adults for 8 years and they started the study by asking, “How much stress have you experience in the last years?”, they also asked “Do you believe that stress is harmful for your health?”

The study shows that there is a 43% increased risk of dying for those who experienced stress, but, that is only true for the people who believe that stress is harmful for you. While the others who didnot see stress as harmful were no more likely to die, in fact they had the lowest risk of dying.

So, health psychologists, like Kelly McGonigal wonders, does changing how we think of stress makes us healthier?And based from the study, the science says yes. When we change our mind about stress, we can change our body’s response to it.

In my point of view, it is what most people says that our mind matters. So whatever it is that we are thinking most of the time greatly affect our way of living and most specially our health. In order for us to stay well, let us be optimistic and you’ll see everything follows in a positive way.Lets not consider stress as an enemy and always fight with it, instead befriend with it and recognize it better than anyone else can do.

By: MS. CRISTY D. DE GUZMAN