by Hidden Brain
Looking after your wellbeing, Managing stress, Using mindfulness for peak performance
- Anxiety doesn’t indicate that we’re broken or that we have a malfunction or failure, but it’s really a part of being human.
- Anxiety is a wonderful compass that points us to things that matter, that have implications for our lives and the lives of our loved ones. It tells us that it’s also something in the future that we believe we can still work towards.
- Anxiety from that perspective is not only important information, it’s essential and crucial information.
- Anxiety becomes a disorder only when it starts causing functional impairment so that the actions we’re taking to handle that anxiety are causing more harm, causing us to have problems at work, have problems in our relationships, and are affecting our health choices.
- We have to listen to anxiety. We have to tune in and leverage it.
- Anxiety and other difficult emotions are like waves that push us forward. But you must learn to swim to avoid drowning. You have to build skills and the ability to work with these emotions, with these feelings; or else they are amplified when we avoid them or steamroll over them.
Source: A discussion between the host of Hidden Brain Organization, Shankar Vedantam and psychologist Tracy Dennis-Tiwary. A Better Way To Worry. Podcast. https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/a-better-way-to-worry/