The Medical Freedom Channel

“As a yoga instructor in New York City, Jennifer Parmelee knows what to do to find her inner calm when hit with daily stresses. Instead of feeling overwhelmed by pressures or annoyances like being stuck in the subway, Parmelee uses them to keep her motivated. ‘You need stress to a certain degree,’ she says. ‘You just try not to let it take control of you,’ she says. For her, the idea is to turn a stressful situation into ‘fierceness or fun.’ Stress … fun? Could stress actually be good for you? In small doses, yes. We may talk about cutting the stress from our lives, but we need those precious, powerful fight-or-flight hormones our bodies produce when we’re about to be hit by a car or when confronted with an unexpected, needed-it-yesterday deadline at work.” (11/29/06)