Keep Calm Under Pressure - by Jay Chodagam

COURSE

Keep Calm Under Pressure

With Jay Chodagam

We live in a fast-paced, high-performance world, full of stressful situations. From bills to pay, school and work deadlines, traffic jams, demanding jobs, college applications, injuries, and illnesses, the list of stress-causers goes on and on. While you may enjoy what you do, the pressure could make you tense and unproductive. Whether you need to work with a challenging client or complete a long list of tasks, there are strategies to help you stay relaxed and positive despite the circumstances. By having calming strategies, you can stay focused and productive on even the most unpredictable workdays. In this 10-part course, you will learn some important relaxation strategies that will help you to stay calm under pressure and bring out your best self. There is a follow-up track for this course that listeners are encouraged to listen to for 21 days to get the maximum benefit and sustainable change. 'Daily Practice for Keeping Calm Under Pressure' track is free and available on Jay's profile on the app.


Meet your Teacher

Jay Chodagam trained as a monk for 18 years. He helps people develop SQ (spiritual quotient) for heart-centered being and purposeful doing. With experience working in Silicon Valley and life in the ashram, his style of teaching integrates ancient wisdom with modern science to build resilient, sustainable, and creative communities and workplaces.

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10 Days

4.0k students

4.9 stars

14 min / day

Stress

English


Lesson 1

Focus On The Present

The idea of being in the present moment is a powerful one when it comes to workloads and pressures. We are often scheduled to the max and we become physically and emotionally stressed out. We often find our minds cluttered and overthinking. We worry about how the past could have gone differently. Or we wonder if the future will go as exactly as we plan it. This session will teach you how to bring your focus to the present.

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Lesson 2

Practice Deep Breathing

Breathing is one of the most effective ways to manage stress because it leverages your own physiology and requires no special tools. In as little as 90 seconds, deep breathing can stimulate a physiological "relaxation response" that tones down your body's "fight-or-flight" response by inhibiting stress hormone production, lowering blood pressure, and decreasing heart rate. Learn a powerful breathing practice to stay calm under pressure.

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Lesson 3

Take A Break

Breaks give your mind space to relieve stress and ease the pressure. It's very important to daydream, to let your mind run free at the deepest level. Learn to tap into the source of creativity -- taking disparate ideas from different disciplines and putting them together. You can’t really do that consciously. You will benefit from solutions just bubbling up to the surface.

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Lesson 4

Process How You're feeling

When you find your stress levels rising, instead of forcing yourself to cheer up or calm down, try returning to equilibrium to simply accept the way you currently feel. If you accept that that is how you feel at this moment, you take the sting out of your emotion, and out of the stress, anger, worry and unhappiness. In this session, you will learn the art of observation and the art of accepting the situation is tremendously powerful.

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Lesson 5

Visualize Your End Goal

No one can define for you exactly what your path should be. You must look at the values you have chosen to live by. Where do you put your time, your strength, your creativity, your love? Does what you are choosing reflect what you most deeply value? In this session, you will learn to become still and listen deeply and you will know if you are following a path with heart.

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Lesson 6

Reflect On The Positives

To make a positive change in your life, positive thinking is a good start. For any tangible results, thinking needs to be followed by positive doing. We can't be a Positive Thinker as long as we are critical. To criticize is to attack. In this session, you will learn about the silver lining principle and creative intention to deliberately look for the upside.

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Lesson 7

Practice Healthy Habits

Stress is a form of pain or discomfort that comes to tell you there is something you need to change. So stress is a messenger and not a companion. Living a healthy lifestyle can help you calm your stress levels and stay focused throughout the workday. In this session, you will learn how to incorporate positive health habits into your life through creative visualization.

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Lesson 8

Organize Your Priorities

Look around at the life you've created for yourself, and you'll clearly see your true priorities. If you wish to adjust those priorities, you can reliably do so by adjusting the actions that support them. By the way you choose to give your time, attention and effort, you are setting your priorities, and those priorities will greatly influence the way your life proceeds. In this session, you will be guided to set your priorities as high as you can imagine.

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Lesson 9

Limit What You Do

Not everything is important. Life is not a set of almost equal activities. This is where we are being conned. The con of ā€œbusy-nessā€. There’s just enough time to complete the essential purposes in our life. You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you most definitely control what you do. In this session, we will deliberate on what your purpose is and what you are here to do.

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Lesson 10

Retrain Your Brain For A Calmer Life

Do you ever find yourself stuck in a negative thought loop? Do stressful work, relationships, or life experiences sometimes play on repeat in your head? ā€It’s not your fault. Human brains are wired to pay more attention to the negative. It’s possible to rewire your brain and develop the inner strength you need to overcome any negative thought, feeling, or life experience and grow from it — instead of getting stuck. Learn to rewire your brain for a calmer life in this session.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 43 community questions and 19 audio replies from Jay Chodagam. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Maureen

January 1, 2025

I found this course really helpful and it has provided me with tools I can use to improve my life everyday. I’m looking forward to doing the daily practice. Tim well spent šŸ™šŸ»ā¤ļø

Angelique

November 27, 2024

Appreciate the practicality of this course. Jay is superb at leading one into a state of relaxation quickly.

Kate

April 21, 2024

Thank you šŸ™ for this course which is full of information and inspiration. I will listen again. Also, you have a beautiful voice.

Carol

March 8, 2024

Jay's voice is so easy to listen to & somewhat mesmerizing. The messages are easy to follow & understand. Jay is awesome! I'm going to listen to this course again!

Maggie

February 19, 2024

This was such a great course , it really makes you think about life . A simple life is a great life !!! šŸ™

Lisa

February 8, 2024

Very helpful series for me, specifically for work day overwhelm and stress. Thank you!

Emma

December 18, 2023

This course has been amazing, made me feel a lot more self-secure and confident. Thank you

Juliet

September 30, 2023

Beautiful course which I plan do listen to in its entirety again multiple times!

Laurence

September 13, 2023

Thank you!

Uday

August 31, 2023

Thanks for sharing tips and tricks to address

John

August 24, 2023

Calming

Leila

August 14, 2023

Lots of practical tips and great breathing exercises

Silas

August 12, 2023

Thanjs! šŸ˜ŽšŸ˜Šthe last one i will use in group.

Marilyn

July 30, 2023

Talk about the right course at the right time! Thank you so much for this wonderful course Jay, it’s beautifully presented with just the right amount of input for each day.. I am about to move house and…well, everyone is saying how stressful this is. But just yesterday a friend commented ā€œ You always seem so calm about it.ā€ Result! But the valuable input lessons will stay with me far far longer than that.

Heidi

July 5, 2023

Processing each area discussed indeed helpful. Will be listening again.

Karin

July 5, 2023

Wounderful insight and technique to keep calm under stressful situations!

Dena

June 8, 2023

Thank you.

Kirk

May 30, 2023

Absolutely loved it! Putting in on repeat!!

Kyle

May 10, 2023

Great insighrs

Virginia

May 5, 2023

I so appreciate jay and this course, thank you!