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📰 A Surprising Way to Reduce Stress
減輕壓力的特別方式
Reminding yourself what you’re grateful for can boost your mental health and help you cope with coronavirus anxiety
📌 這篇文章相對容易，用字淺白，内容也貼近日常生活。壓力(stress)是現在生活每個人要面對的問題，我們須要學習減少(reduce)壓力的方法(way)。文章副標題告訴我們，提醒自己要感恩(grateful)的事情可以促進(boost)我們的精神健康 (mental health) 和幫助我們應付 (copy with) 有關冠狀病毒的焦慮 (coronavirus anxiety)。
As a lifelong athlete and former pro basketball player, David Gardner has always focused on his health, being careful to eat right, drink a lot of water, get enough sleep and stay active.
But since the pandemic started, he’s added another healthy habit: Reminding himself why he’s grateful.
When Mr. Gardner starts to feel frustrated or annoyed these days—that he can’t meet with his employees in person, take a trip, or see a friend—he interrupts his thoughts with a question: “What is the gift in this situation?”
“Focusing on the positive helps me better absorb the negative,” says Mr. Gardner, a 37-year-old owner of a branding firm in Chicago.
📌 這四段通過David Gardner的例子說明感恩的重要性。他是位終身的運動員(lifelong athlete)，以前也是位職業籃球員 (former pro basketball player)，自從大流行病開始，他學會感恩：聚焦 (focus on) 正面的東西 (the positive) 幫助他更能消化 (absorb) 負面的東西 (the negative)。
It is an important strategy, especially now. Reminding ourselves what we’re grateful for is one of the most powerful ways we can boost what mental-health experts call the psychological immune system. Researchers use the concept to describe a set of emotional processes that help protect our mental health, just as the physiological immune system aims to safeguard our physical health. A strong psychological immune system keeps us mentally resilient.
📌這段解釋，「感恩」是個重要的策略 (strategy)。它可以促進心理免疫系統 (psychological immune system)，這個系統有助於保護 (protect) 精神健康 (mental health)。
Many things we do to strengthen our physical immune system also support us mentally, such as eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly, getting enough sleep and finding time for pleasurable activities in our day. Typically, our psychological immune system kicks in naturally, although it is sometimes compromised in people who suffer from depression or another mental illness, who have low self-esteem, or who ruminate a lot, mental-health experts say. But right now, as we’re battered with coronavirus stress, it’s important we all try to actively strengthen it.
📌 這段進一步說明心理免疫系統的運作。加強 (strengthen) 身體免疫系統 (physical immune system) ，在精神健康方面支援 (support) 我們，當我們受到有關冠狀病毒的壓力所猛擊 (batter) 時，主動 (actively) 加強心理免疫系統是相當重要的。
“Our psychological immune system is like a cellphone battery—we drain it more quickly in a crisis because we use it more,” says Jacqueline Sperling, a psychologist and director of training and research at the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program at McLean Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. “So it’s important to continue to recharge it.”
📌 這段用了手機電池為例子說明，心理免疫系統需要繼續充電的重要性。
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