Explain what the text's descriptions of reality and unreality have to do with stress. In other words, what happens in our mind that allows the stress response to activate?
When we focus our attention on what is happening (reality), when we keep our awareness on the here and now, what we get is an experience without stress. Stress occurs when we are associating a future pain or discomfort with some event (worrying) and the need to prepare for it with the fight-or-flight response. Future pain and discomfort are among the things that are not reality, the things we make up, our judgments, our opinions, and our ideas about our experience. When we think mindfully, we eliminate the possibility of stress turning on in the first place.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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A) autoimmune disorders B) nosocomial infections C) immunodeficiencies D) allergies
An example of physician-assisted suicide is
A. a lethal injection of medication administered by the state. B. withdrawing life-sustaining treatment such as artificial respiration. C. a doctor providing lethal medication to a patient at the patient's request. D. a doctor allowing a terminally-ill patient's condition to run its course.
Each gram of fat provides ____ calories, which are more than twice the calories of a gram of carbohydrate or protein
a. 17 b. 15 c. 13 d. 11 e. 9