So, driving my tractor, carrying a bell of hay, and the bell of hay weighs about 2,000

pounds, right? And I had it on what's called the front loader, the front part of the tractor.

I'm going down the hill and there's nothing flat where I, my farm is everything's on angles,

steep angles, cliffs, things like that. So, I'm driving down this pathway to this paddock.

And of course, my wife said, you probably should let someone else do that. You know, you're not

very experienced in a tractor. I'm like, I can do it. I'm driving down and I have too much weight,

too high on the front of this tractor, driving on a hillside, which is not very stable.

So, the tractor started to tip over, okay? At that moment, I had what they call a stress event.

Okay, this is called flight or fight. Now, in flight or fight, you know, if you have two options,

you can fight or you can fly, get the heck out of there. And so, I chose the flight part.

Get off the tractor real fast. Try not to kill yourself as the tractor went through the electric

fence and off the cliff. So, I experienced stress. So, today we're going to dig into this. And I'm

just using myself as an example. I was under some severe shock stress. And what happens in that

mode, you have the flight or fight mechanism, kick him. That's part of what's called the autonomic

nervous system. So, the word autonomic means involuntary, okay? It happens automatically

without your control or will, okay? And that's the key point is this word control. You're going to

be stressed out as much as you are out of control in a situation. And you'll be less stressed

the more you're in control. So, there are stress dates like exercise, you're stressing your body

or a jacuzzi or a cold bath. Those are all stresses, very positive stress. It's going to help you.

But any stress that you are out of control puts you in a bad place. But in my situation,

I had this sudden burst of adrenaline, massive adrenaline that stayed in my bloodstream all day

as well as cortisol. I was in a state of panic. I was hyperventilating. I was breathing really

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