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Breaking out of your comfort zone
Breaking out of your comfort zone makes you feel vulnerable, but that feeling works in your favor because it improves your performance and boosts your growth. A constant state of comfort equals steady performance.
Too much anxiety, however, will make you too stressed to be productive.
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Claudia Stark
@claudias
The Science of Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone (and Why You Should)
The Science of Your "Comfort Zone"
Your comfort zone is a behavioral space where your activities and behaviors fit a routine and pattern that minimizes stress and risk. That provides a state of mental security.
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Optimal Anxiety
A state of relative comfort created a steady level of performance. In order to maximize performance, a state of relative anxiety is needed—a space where our stress levels are slightly higher than normal. This space is called "Optimal Anxiety," and it's just outside our comfort zone.
Too much anxiety and we're too stressed to be productive, and our performance drops off sharply.
Making Sense Of Your Comfort Zone
- Your comfort zone is neither a good or bad thing. It's a natural state that most people trend towards.
- Leaving it means increased risk and anxiety, which can have positive and negative results.
- Don't demonize your comfort zone as something holding you back. We all need that head-space where we're least anxious and stressed so we can process the benefits we get when we leave it.
Claudia Stark
@claudias
How Being Vulnerable Can Expand Your World
Being vulnerable expands your world
- Vulnerability is so much easier when you love yourself. You'll be less afraid of rejection, you step right into that place of openness.
- Vulnerability takes practice.&nbs...
Evangeline E.
@evafe55
45 Simple Self-Care Practices for a Healthy Mind, Body & Soul
Self-Care Ideas For The Soul
- Help someone.
- Write out your thoughts. Then let them go as you burn or bin the paper.
- Hang out with people who emit enthusiasm and positivity.
Self-Care Ideas For The Body
- Use the body scan technique to check in with each part of your body.
- Breathe into your abdomen, and let the air puff out your stomach and chest three times.
- Put on your favorite upbeat record and dance.
- Stretch your body.
- Run, walk or go up and down the stairs for a few minutes.
- Pick two healthy breakfasts, lunches, and dinners and rotate for the week.
- Look lovingly and without judgment at your naked self in the mirror.
- Sit somewhere green, and be quiet for a few minutes.
- Get fifteen minutes of sun. (Use sunscreen if appropriate.)
- Do something that will give you a good laugh.
- Take a quick nap. A few dozen minutes can reduce your sleep debt and freshen you up.
Self-Care Ideas For The Mind
- Document the great things people say about you to read later.
- Finish something that’s been on your to-do list for ages.
- Change the way you make decisions.
- Mix up your routine in small ways to create new neural pathways in the brain and keep it healthy.
- Pay complete attention to something you usually do on autopilot.
- Schedule in five minutes of “play” several times throughout your day.
- Create a deliberate habit, and routinize something small in your life by doing it, in the same way, each day.
- Fix a small annoyance at home that’s been nagging you.
- Do mini-meditations with one minute of awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations.
- Get out of your comfort zone, even if it’s just a little.
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