Fighting “Flighting”: Nonjudgmental Awareness - Deepstash

Fighting “Flighting”: Nonjudgmental Awareness

Fortunately, there are things we can do. The key to getting control over procrastination is emotion regulation, and one method is practicing mindfulness.

Research out of the University of Pittsburghfound that people can learn to control their emotions through mindfulness. Participants practiced using nonjudgmental awareness over the course of eight weeks. The study found that their amygdala shrunk and the connections to the prefrontal cortex changed.

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Procrastination is an emotion-focused coping strategy. It’s not a time management problem.

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