The Science Of Ending Stress - by Don Joseph Goewey

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The Science Of Ending Stress

With Don Joseph Goewey

Research has shown that success in life is dependent on your brain, and the state of your mind has a direct correlation with determining the state of your brain. This is a course grounded in neuroscience, designed to facilitate a radical shift in your state of mind. Over the next 10 days you will learn the tools to shift your default, auto-pilot response from one steeped in reactivity, stress, anxiety and worry to one of calm, creativity and confidence, allowing you to live from a place of peace instead of fear. Together, we will identify why stress occurs and how to eliminate it from your life, work towards maximising your problem solving ability and cognitive strength, and reduce shame-based stress reactions so you can function with greater self-confidence, self-direction and self-esteem. By transforming your mindset, you can rewire your brain to develop the creative intelligence to succeed at your goals, as well as the emotional and social intelligence that enables you to find joy in your work, peace in your life, and harmony in your relationships.

ContemplationStressStress & AnxietyClarityPerformanceNeuroscienceScienceSelf-ObservationMindfulness

Meet your Teacher

Don Joseph Goewey
San Francisco, CA, USA

Don Joseph Goewey heads a human performance firm with the mission of ending stress and elevating people’s experience of work and life. His clients have included major organizations, including Cisco, Wells Fargo and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Don is also the author of The End of Stress - Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain, and Mystic Cool: Neuroplasticity, Thought, and the Power of Attitude. Previously, Don was an executive at Stanford University Medical School and directed the International Center for Attitudinal Healing (ICAH), recognized for its approach to overcoming catastrophic life events. In 2004, ICAH was conferred the Excellence in Medicine Award by the American Medical Association for innovating a new school of psychology based on the power of attitude.

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10 Days

19.0k students

4.8 stars

14 min / day

Stress

English

Lesson 1

A Perfect Storm Of Stress

A stressful state of mind shrinks higher order brain networks that drive intellectual, emotional and creative intelligence. Conversely, a positive mindset expands higher brain networks. In this session you'll learn about the neurological power of attitude to activate brain functions that either promote a successful, rewarding life or a life of stress, struggle, and depression. You’ll also learn a process that breaks the brain pattern that drives the everyday stress reactions you experience.

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Lesson 2

Accentuate The Positive, Eliminate The Negative

Some people think of peace and happiness as too impractical for succeeding in our fast paced, high intensity world. They think it represents complacency and passivity that leads to losing your edge. Make no mistake, 225 studies prove that when it comes to succeeding at work and at life, nothing is more practical than the higher brain function we activate when our emotional state is positive, happy and at peace. In this session you will learn a tool that accentuates the positive in your daily life and another tool that eliminates the negative, enabling you to respond to stressors intelligently, with greater calm, creativity, and clarity.

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Lesson 3

The Question At The Bottom Of Stress

Biologically, stress is fear, meaning it is happening in you more than to you. It’s the way human beings generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads, producing upsetting emotions that imagine a threat, sending the mind and body into an uproar, when often no real threat exists. In this session you will learn two tools that can liberate you from fearful and counterproductive thinking.

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Lesson 4

Switch Your Brain's Default To Stress-Free

Worried, anxious thinking can become a habit, wiring your brain's auto-pilot for stress. It's called rumination and it generates a pessimistic state of mind. What science has learned about habit formation is that there’s a loop that starts with a 'cue' that stimulates a 'routine' and in turn, prompts you to achieve a 'reward'. When practiced long enough, this becomes an automatic response. In this session, you'll turn your growing awareness of stress and fear into your cue, stimulating you to practice a stress busting tool (your routine), leading to your reward, which is the positive experience of peace and happiness that generates the brain power to excel.

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Lesson 5

Peace And Happiness Are Already In You

The brain often generates repetitive, incessant negative thinking which releases stress hormones that can damage our DNA. In this session, you will learn a simple form of awareness that unclutters your mind, quiets the negativity, and opens you to the peace and happiness that arise naturally when we quiet the mind.

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Lesson 6

Tapping Into Your Creative Brain

Science once thought that people were either genetically gifted with creativity or not. Research has since established that this is not the case. So why do some people seem more creative than others? One reason is that highly creative people have figured out how to tap into the brain’s inherent creative power and by the end of this session, you will know how to do it too. By tapping into this power, you can generate the creative insight that solves a problem, turns an idea into a practical innovation, or helps you think out of the box to come up with a more promising approach when old approaches fail.

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Lesson 7

The Three Attitudes That Succeed At Relationships

Every day we interact with people at work and at home, and these exchanges either have a positive impact or generate the stress and conflict that detracts from positive and successful outcomes. Research shows that the positive regard, authenticity and empathy we extend in face to face encounters contributes significantly to our success and well-being. By the end of this session, you’ll have a greater understanding of these three attitudes and how to apply them in creating great relationships.

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Lesson 8

Forgiveness Is The Key To Happiness

We fail at love more than we may care to admit, in part because past hurts amplify the stress gene, which activates the brain’s fear center, making us defensive and untrusting. Forgiveness provides the means for erasing the hurt and restoring happiness. Forgiveness is a gift we give our self. By the end of this session, you will have enhanced your ability to free yourself from grievances, small and large, and to move on.

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Lesson 9

Your Unconditional State Of Worthiness

Researchers have found that your essential nature is enormously positive and worthy of unconditional respect, and yet upwards of 80 percent of us struggle with shame. Why? We live in a shame-based culture where many of our social institutions use shame and comparison as a way of controlling people. Shame is extremely stressful. It is the fear of being criticized, judged, rejected, or devalued that calcifies into the self-defeating belief that “I'm not good enough.” There is only one shift we need to make to transcend shame to experience our immeasurable self-worth and by the end of his session you’ll have a clear path to it.

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Lesson 10

Pointing Yourself In The Right Direction

In this final session, we'll integrate what we've learnt over the previous lessons into a set of 12 simple principles. These principles support your practice of eliminating stress and anxiety from your everyday experience and accentuating the peace, creativity and happiness that is the foundation of a productive and fulfilling life.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 182 community questions and 30 audio replies from Don Joseph Goewey. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

TAMARA

November 30, 2025

I got a lot out of this course and appreciated Don’s warmth and wisdom. I particularly liked the science of stress and understanding what’s happening physiologically. That coupled with the many techniques was very valuable.

Sherry

November 1, 2025

The best...

Gisele

October 31, 2025

Amazing course!!

Mona

October 15, 2025

This course was a great help to me. Would recommend to anyone undergoing a stressful time in their lives.

Phil

October 4, 2025

Really beneficial, thank you.

Denise

July 8, 2025

Excellent course on ending stress and using the tools to be more at peace! Thank you 🙏

Robin

June 23, 2025

This was an excellent course! I really liked the exercises in the early lessons to calm myself during stressful times. Thank you! You are an excellent teacher 💜💜💜

Philip

June 23, 2025

Excellent series! Really resonated with the last session! Thanks!!!

Jack

June 10, 2025

Thank you so much, Don! These sessions have really allowed me to discover more about myself and my relationships with others. While I do feel that I have a lot of areas to work on in terms of managing and eliminating my stress, what you offered has definitely opened my eyes to new opportunities. Thanks.

James

March 13, 2025

Really interesting. Will listen again to makes notes on all the excellent points raised and fantastic references and quotes.

Jill

February 2, 2025

What a beautiful and profoundly helpful course! Thank you! I appreciate the nuggets of practical wisdom, and plan to revisit.

Leigh

January 31, 2025

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Gordon

January 18, 2025

Great sessions. Bite-size, valuable insights.

Wendy

December 3, 2024

I learned and was inspired. So much! Thank you

Drew

November 28, 2024

Thank you, beautiful words to live by 🙏🏻💕✨🌴

Rosi

November 18, 2024

Thank you, Don, for this amazing course. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your stories. I curious to read your book. Much gratitude 🙏

Ann

October 24, 2024

An invaluable course that has the potential for changing my life. All I need to do is apply the ideas presented. I’m so glad I took this course and I look forward to seeing how my life changes.

Maria

October 14, 2024

Great course!

Willow

September 19, 2024

Excellent all-round. Thank you for your commitment to this subject and to sharing on it Don.

Taher

August 28, 2024

Eye opening course!! Too much to learn from it.

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