You don’t need to adapt to stress in your life. You need to eliminate the causes of stress and suffering in your life altogether.

Stress is never a good thing, contrary to popular belief. The majority of your problems is because you think stress is normal. And as a result you never try to address its causes, because you think you cannot outrun the inevitable. You think there’s no escaping stress in your life no matter what. That’s why you gave up trying long ago to do something about it. You heard wrong. To add insult to injury, you were told that you should focus on what you want in life, not what you don’t want. Remember that next time you think those who spread such nonsense have your best interest in mind. As a result, you never attempted to address anything in your life that is significantly and unnecessarily increasing the stress levels that you’re dealing with on a day-to-day basis, because it never occurred to you. It never crossed your mind. You were told to adopt the most peaceful and harmless measure to make things better for you. In the end, you ended up making no difference in your life whatsoever. Neither positive, nor negative. You were told that your brain was wired in the wrong direction or the wrong way. Biased towards the negative, only focused on what’s bad, wrong, dangerous, or negative. And you were told to still love yourself regardless by the very same people who presented you with ample manufactured evidence that explains why you are built the wrong way and that your default nature is an abomination. Evidence that is perfectly designed to exacerbate whatever self-loathing you already had before you met them. As if when your brain tells you I can make you happy not by forcing you to move mountains, but by eliminating a tiny little thing that I find to be a little bit annoying, that should be objectively determined to be something irrational, and judged by the tribunal of human emotion to be a sign of focusing on the negative that needs to be abolished by any means necessary. Oh my God, he’s showing signs of focusing on the negative, strike with great vengeance!

Everything the establishment says is wrong with you is actually what’s right with you. You’re losing in life because such negative things exist, not because you’re focusing on them.