Struggling to cope with today's catastrophe-filled world?
Changing your mindset can help protect you from the stress caused by disease outbreaks, wildfires, earthquakes, political uproars and traumatic life events, researchers say.
People given a one-hour class in shifting their mindset -- to see growth opportunities amidst chaos -- wound up with lower levels of depression and stress months later, researchers report in the October issue of the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity.
"We would have liked to avoid the COVID-19 pandemic, but it came regardless," said senior researcher Alia Crum, an associate professor of psychology at Stanford University in California.
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