The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
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The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
Part of that success derived from her artistic talent, but even more came from paying attention to details and anticipating the needs of her clients. In this way, her tendency to worry served her well, because she rarely missed a beat in her customer service and job fulfillment.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
we are still prey animals underneath, cautious and vigilant, and highly dependent on one another for safety. That’s why our emotional brains so closely monitor our relationships to our families, friends, and associates. Threats to our personal or social well-being, real or imagined, send danger signals down through the oldest, most primitive part o
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We might say that wisdom tends to appear in the spaces between our thoughts, and making those spaces bigger by quieting and slowing the thinking mind allows more room for our wisdom to emerge.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
The trouble is that this kind of worry is almost always distressing and uncomfortable, and sometimes it can even become obsessive, taking on a life of its own. Even more troublesome is that when we worry this way, our worries can act as autosuggestions. They can become significant, even dominant portions of our mental focus throughout the day, taki
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Most of us have never been taught to use our imaginations skillfully or well. We get stuck in the default position, which is to worry needlessly, habitually, and ineffectually.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
Besides making you sore, lactic acid also contributes to tension and stress.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
If we imagine the brain as the hardware and the mind as the software of consciousness, using imagery would be like taking an old computer, adding a thousand times the memory, and upgrading to an operating system that connects it to the Internet and lets it process information at a blazing rate. Because imagery is the natural coding language of most
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We often maintain tension levels that are greater than we need, just from habit. When muscles are tense, their circulation is decreased and they tend to accumulate metabolic waste products such as lactic acid.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
Worry, especially “bad” or futile worry, is simply imagination run amok.