Day In, Day Out: Coping Effectively With Stress - a podcast by Ty Brown

I want to spit some science at you today.

A lot of you out there know me as an esteemed, renowned scientist—and if that’s the case, I don’t know who you’re watching! I’m not a scientist at all. But I was talking with a client today, who happened to be a psychologist, about a recent study that I want to share with you as well. After I shared a training tip with him, he said that it was exactly like a piece of research that he had read about that was published not too long ago.

Here are the basics of the study. They found a group of—I think—a hundred people who all had anxiety issues. So they split the group into two: the first group got training that advised them of how to behave when they started to feel stressed. They were given meditation techniques and coping mechanisms. The second group received the same technique, but were told to take a half hour to do them every single day.

A year later, they measured both groups on a number of scales. The people who did the exercises as part of their daily routine were overwhelmingly more able to cope with stress. The people who were taught “in-the-moment” techniques had improved their anxiety, but far less than the ones who were given a more proactive approach improved far more.

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