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
us. But the rapid pace of modern life creates a challenge unprecedented in previous human experience—dealing with the sheer volume of potentially threatening information we process each day.
Martin Rossman • 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
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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Fear sells news, entertainment, and many other products, from insurance policies to household cleaners to medications, because fearful information is hard for the brain to ignore.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
“Lord, grant me the serenity to accept those things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can change, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
Solving problems is the positive, healthy function of worry, but worry can easily turn into a bad habit of endless rumination about frightening, threatening, or simply annoying matters that ultimately cannot be solved.
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
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When we are angry or scared, it’s easy to connect to other angry or scared thoughts and feelings, but harder to connect to those that may be calm or forgiving. This phenomenon is called state-dependency.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
To best use your mental resources, you need to shift out of a frightened state to one that will open the emotional doors to a broader range of memory and