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Turn Anxiety To Focus
Stress affects us in different ways and at different times. One of the most common ways stress affects us is right before talking to your boss, when playing sports or before a speech.
We can take those feelings of anxiety and turn them into energy and focus.
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Reframe The Situation
Symptoms of stress, like a dry mouth and a racing heart, are the same as excitement. Research confirms that when people are in stressful situations such as public speaking, instead of telling themselves to calm down, reframing the situation as exciting helps to ride the wave of stress.
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How Our Brains Handle Stress
When we feel stressed, our brains release a chemical called noradrenaline. Noradrenaline increases arousal and alertness, it increases the formation and retrieval of memories, and it focuses attention. It also increases restlessness and anxiety.
If we find ways to control and handle stress ...
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See Stress As A Challenge
We can look at stress as either a 'growth' or a 'fixed' mindset.
- A fixed mindset is a fatalistic approach where you believe things are happening to you and can't be changed. This mindset will hold you back.
- A growth mindset sees potential failure as a chance to learn. This mind...
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Cognitive Reappraisal
The goal of cognitive reappraisal is not to turn off your negative thoughts. It is to take a step back and ground your thoughts in reality.
- Recognize when you're busy with a negative path and stop yourself.
- Write down your thoughts and identify what specifically t...
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Build A New Track
Every thought is an intricate pattern of activity between proteins and chemicals, gene expressions, and neural connections in our brain. The more we have a particular thought, the stronger the mental connection becomes.
The more you react to stress with anxiety and fear, the more likely you...
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Where to put your focus
Speaking a language is not like those exams that many of us had to take in grade school, where a tiny grammar mistake would lose you marks.
In the real world, small errors don't matter. What matters is to make yourself understood.
Don't focus on yourself or on your...
A Distracted Life
Most of us live dissatisfied, distraction-filled lives, as there is no clarity as to what we want and need to do. A lack of clarity affects us and those around us deeply, causing stress, inaction, lack of focus and difficulties handling other people.
Clarity helps us feel energetic...
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