added by Lillian Sheng and · updated 2y ago
How to break the anxiety-fear-avoidance cycle
Maurice Cronin and added
- The first step toward freedom is to notice when you’re falling into aversive control. In other words, you can’t stop running until you realize that you’re doing it.
For example, as you’re joining a meeting or beginning work on a task, you could ask yourself, “At this moment, am I oriented toward what matters or away from pain?” Sometimes, this quest... See morefrom How to Find Freedom Under Pressure by Casey Rosengren
Britt Gage added
The point is to try and step outside of your existing framework for thinking about how you approach (some set of) things, and to perceive how your past experience and existing worldview influences your expectations of how things will go, and how those expectations would then influence the outcome. It can be helpful to do thought experiments where y
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Mounica Veggalam added
This is describing about the tendency to get trapped in the HOW based on the past. Focus on the next thing determining your current way of being, creates more of the future you want to see. Deliberately stepping out of the local optima you’ve created can result in desired outcomes as a side effect. For me, if I want to coach more awakened tech CEOs I have to assume abundance and that I already can talk to them.
- “Working on a problem reduces the fear of it.
It’s hard to fear a problem when you are making progress on it—even if progress is imperfect and slow.
Action relieves anxiety.”from Highlights From jamesclear.com by James Clear
Isaac Feldman added
“Why is this so hard? Because you’re utterly habituated to steady progress—to completing things, to producing, to solving. When progress is subtle or slow, when there’s no clear way to proceed, you flinch away. You redirect your attention to something safer, to something you can do. You jump to implementation prematurely; you feel a co
... See morefrom Cultivating Depth and Stillness in Research by Andy Matuschak
sari and added
Everything hinges on understanding this: You can’t reframe everything in your life until you gain awareness of the fear narrative that is driving your actions.
from Figure That Shift Out by Chris McAlister
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