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Reset Make The Most Of Your Stress Your 24-7 Plan For Well-Being [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Self-Help)
  • Author:  Kristen Lee Costa
  • Author:  Kristen Lee Costa
  • ISBN-10:  1491747579
  • ISBN-10:  1491747579
  • ISBN-13:  9781491747575
  • ISBN-13:  9781491747575
  • Publisher:  iUniverse
  • Publisher:  iUniverse
  • Pages:  288
  • Pages:  288
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2014
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2014
  • SKU:  1491747579-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  1491747579-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100250500
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Preface

The Man Who Ate a Plane

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Ben Franklin

No bananas for me! cried the Frenchman, not to be distracted from his main course. Bring on the bolts!
It was 1978 when Michel Lotito's appetite for indigestible objects got the best of him. It wasn't enough that he had already purposely devoured bicycles,
shopping carts, and razor blades. For two years, Monsieur Mangetout-or, Mr. Eats-All -devoted himself to eating a Cessna-150 aircraft. Two pounds daily brought him to his goal, adding to his nine-ton lifetime tally of metal (and perhaps mental) mayhem.
What made this possible? Mr. Eats-All apparently had unique attributes contributing toward his record-breaking binges. His super-Charmin-cushioned stomach and eccentricities helped him defy convention.
But, there's more to it.
Mr. Eats-All understood the importance of slow digestion. Bit by bit, he was somehow able to tolerate the distress he willfully invited. Even with his stomach of steel, slugging down the pieces would have been dicey if he had gone over his two-pound limit. He could process the foreign objects only in manageable chunks. He knew when to say when.
This is not something I recommend doing at home, but there are lessons within this story of culinary chaos. Despite Mr. Eats-All's ingestion of toxic materials, his tank remained resilient, and he found his maximum threshold for how much he could process. Adult life leaves us having to digest overwhelming amounts of information. Stress doesn't come in neatly packaged rations; we're forced to process change, loss, and harsh realities in heaping portions. Like our stomachs, our brains have limits to what they can effectively tolerate. Massive stress can leave our minds churning and on a hunt to find some sort of solace.
So, what's the remedy? Most of us have to digest things we'd rather not. Things that puncture us and keep us awake at night. Things we prefer not l�&

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