the stress builds, your heart races, your hands begin to feel clammy, you clench the steering wheel tighter, and then the police car flies by you and you quickly realize that you weren't the one he was after. and a sense of relief washes over you. but you're still trying to calm down a few minutes later. you know, in this example, there was absolutely no physical reason for the stress and for the anxiety you experienced in your body. it w created by your mind. and it produced a real biological reaction in your body. that's how powerful the mind can be. and it can work against you or it can work for you. it's your most powerful tool in building an ultramind. now, we don't need any help turning on our alarm system or being stressed, right? it happens automatically. but we do need help turning on our relaxation response and finding our pause button and activating that vegas nerve. it's an active process. if the alarm is always on, then that cortisol, or hormone we produce when we're stressed, begins to rot our healthy tissue and decay our brains. but the good news is we do have an off switch f