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
Becoming an observer of your own thoughts will help you do this relatively quickly.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
The average number of thoughts in a quiet part of your day is about a dozen or so. If you multitask a lot, or need to make many decisions a day, you may have more than double that number. If you do this experiment several times, you are likely to have different numbers of thoughts per minute each time.
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
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
When we are highly stressed, the emotional brain gets aroused, which in turn stimulates the thinking brain to work harder to resolve our concerns. We create a vicious cycle where the baseline brain activity is geared to a higher than normal level, with increasing vigilance, fear, stress, and anxiety. Over time this extra effort depletes our energy,
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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
Feeling like a frightened child, we may not have good access to the wisdom, courage, creativity, or power we’ve developed as adults.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
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
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
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.