Anxiety doesn’t have to be the enemy if you can view it as a motivator for growth and change.
This sould be the quote that is the over arcing theme for my research.
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- Oct 2022
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www.psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com
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our brains need it to flush toxins and absorb new information.
This makes sence hoever I think that it just another good reason as to why we need to prioritze our sleep
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She found that participants who simply reappraised their performance anxiety as excitement felt significantly less distress than those who did not.
I want to try this myself to see if it works for me.
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Anxiety errs on the side of caution
There are deffintly time I feel like this would do more harm then good.
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Research from France suggests that stress allows for efficient detection of threats, along with swift action.
this actually contridicts somthing I read on another site. but I looked at the research and I feel that this is more acurat.
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Even Webster’s defines anxiety is a “fear or nervousness about what might happen” along with “a feeling of wanting to do something very much.”
I think it's cool to see that even the defintion agrres.
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Anxiety is a natural motivator.
this reminds me of procrastination and how dealines are the natural motivator like how anxiety can be for atheles.
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the most powerful things anxiety does is harness focus, and redirect attention where it’s needed most.
I've expirceed this myslef when racing
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Change your attitude about anxiety
This is the first step towards useing anxiety to better your preformance.
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Yerkses Dodson Law Source: Alicia H. Clark
This is a really good viusal aid.
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Hack Your Anxiety (Sourcebooks, 2018).
I need to look this book up. I've seen it mentioned before.
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Clinicians know that anxiety sufferers get better when they listen to their rational anxiety, and then use it to do something about the problems it routinely signals.
This is new infromation. I wonder how they figured this out?
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flow
I've learned about flow from other articals on Sports anxiety
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi was a Hungarian-American psychologist. He was the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University.
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Yerkses Dodson Law
The Yerkes-Dodson law is a model of the relationship between stress and task performance. It proposes that you reach your peak level of performance with an intermediate level of stress, or arousal. Too little or too much arousal results in poorer performance.
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