Thin Slices of Anxiety
I am defining anxiety and breaking it down into its component parts—anxious thoughts in the mind and alarmed feeling in the body—so we can heal it.
Russell Kennedy • Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It
we must learn to differentiate between fears and anxieties. Fears are states of apprehension which focus on isolated and recognizable dangers so that they may be judiciously appraised and realistically countered. Anxieties are diffuse states of tension (caused by a loss of mutual regulation and a consequent upset in libidinal and aggressive control
... See moreErik H. Erikson • Childhood and Society
Anxiety is simply insight that we haven’t yet found a productive use for, that hasn’t yet made its way into art or philosophy.
Alain de Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education
Controlling the information that you hold in your focus is the key to overcoming the anxiety, boredom, stress, and overwhelm that plague today’s society.
Dan Koe • The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future
See the big picture
Gorick Ng • The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right
Individuals with anxiety tend to have the opposite problem. Their brain gets stuck thinking about possible negative future events in extremely vivid detail. They simulate, mentally, in highly convincing ways all the futures that scare them—no blank left unfilled.
Jane McGonigal • Imaginable: How to see the future coming and be ready for anything
anxiety at work!!
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Anxiety is not a sign of sickness, a weakness of the mind, or an error for which we should always seek a medical solution. It is mostly a hugely reasonable and sensitive response to the genuine strangeness, terror, uncertainty, and riskiness of existence