Judy Croon

Hi there, I’m Judy Croon. Canada’s Keynote Humourist Welcome to another episode of Laugh Long and Prosper. http://www.JudyCroon.com The Stress Prescription ‘Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.’ -Glenn Turner Recently, I read a book called The Stress Prescription. To worry or not to worry – that is the question. Did you know that in some cases, worrying about a bad thing happening can cause you more stress overall than the bad thing actually happening? By constantly worrying about an upcoming event, we repeatedly re-live a worst-case scenario when in fact, things work out better than we anticipated. We also worry about too much that is out of our control. A new study published in Nature Communications supports this theory. Perhaps you haven’t kept up your subscription of Nature Communications so I will fill you in! In the study, researchers took 45 volunteers, broke them up into 3 groups and asked them to play a computer game. In the computer g