While most people believe all stress is bad and will eventually kill them by causing illness or disease, it turns out that how you think about stress - or your stress mindset - greatly influences whether the stress response impacts you positively or negatively. People who reported experiencing large amounts of stress and who perceived that stress negatively affects their health had a 43% increased risk of premature death. People who experience lots of stress but didn’t believe stress is all bad have a much reduced risk of mortality. It is not realistic to suggest that life - at least for most of us - could ever be stress-free. Although many people are convinced that all stress is bad, this i