eight years ago. the mark of any dinner party is not necessarily did people cry and was that real or did people laugh and was that real, but you should see laughter and you should see tears where people have self-permission and to show up with whatever surfacing for them. kyle lost his mother two years ago. he s hosting the dinner tonight. hello. how are you? in total, lennon says there are 102 dinner party tables around the world, and counting. dinner party is an organization that was born out of the sense of isolation, of being alone in a loss or in suffering. i think this is such a perfect example of what it means to embrace stress. they re not saying there is anything good about the death of their loved ones, right. that would be a ridiculous statement. what they re saying is they believe that it s possible to create something good, when they
were prescribing drugs to help me sleep. or prescribing drugs to help, you know, stay calm. and they weren t working. the first time i was back in the building, i could still smell like that kerosene smell which was unnerving. it s different how different sensory things play. our stress is also mitigated by our five senses. that s why we have the five senses. they are the stoplight. they re the traffic light of how we take in information on every level. kathleen hall is the founder and ceo of the stress institute. after years of working on wall street, she left the corporate world to focus on stress. you mentioned you live the wall street life, and it seems to me and i don t know what you think, but stress was a badge of honor for some time. if you were more stressed, you were working hard, you were more ambitious. it became equated with success.
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we embrace that energy. stress is something that you care about is at stake. it happens in your brain and body that helps you rise to the challenge, when something that you care about is on the line. kelly mcgonigal, author of a book called the upside of stwres. her work has flipped the script on stress. so everyone has heard of the flight of fight response brain and body can respond. but actually, you have this whole represe whole. you fell threatened, maybe overwhelmed, go into immediate survival, you can also have a stress response called a challenge response. that s the kind of stress response that gives you courage, that makes you willing to take positive risks that really helps you perform under pressure. it s a healthy stress response. it s good for your cardiovascular system, immune system.
know, the fact that i have been able to come resilient and to recover and live my life is that i have responsibility to do that. people that lost their lives on that day that you have responsibility to live and be well. and it s a responsibility john reminds us we all share in common. as the new year kicks off, try making kelly mind set reset one of your resolutions. stress is a sign and a meaningful life. let s start living it that way. for vital signs, i m dr. sanjay gup ta, wishing you a happy and healthy 2016. across america, people.