To prevent stress reactivity, in which your brain’s alarm gets out of hand like the Hulk’s, you need to train your mind to prepare for stressful situations and see stress coming before it triggers more than a mild and easily manageable stress reaction. SOS is also an intervention to interrupt and calm alarm reactions when they occur. Your alarm is designed to alert and protect you by reacting. Your alarm knows that trouble can occur in your life, and it wants to make sure that nothing bad happens to you in the future—or at least that you’re ready for future stressors if they can’t be
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