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Understanding and managing stress
This SEL video explores what stress is, how it can affect the body and why it is important to manage it. It explains that stress can show up in physical and emotional ways, such as faster breathing, a raised heart rate, anxiety or anger, and introduces the fight, flight or freeze response.
The video outlines how ongoing stress can affect physical health, mental wellbeing, thinking skills and relationships. It shows that stress can be managed using calming strategies, both to reduce stress when it happens and to build resilience over time.
By learning how to regulate stress, students and adults can improve focus, communication, emotional control and overall wellbeing.
