Harvard research says don't try and calm down when you feel anxious — shift to another emotion instead (via inc)
If you're scared of insomnia, think about how you're looking forward to being unable to sleep.How can you make this shift? One of the classic tools comes from an often overlooked passage in Victor Frankl's classic workIt's simple. Wish for the opposite of what you want. Here's what it sounds like:Fear of insomnia:I hope I feel as much adrenaline as possible when I get on that plane.
I know. Sounds crazy. But this is the twisted, reverse, logic of anxiety. By flipping our ordinary habit of resistance on its head, we create a new story. We're no longer trying to get rid of anxiety, we're now seeing it from a new perspective. The research shows that this switch doesn't get rid of the physiological state of activation that comes with anxiety. It doesn't necessarily calm us down. It does, however, change our experience of this state of high activation, from the torture of anxiety to the anticipation of excitement.
Try it out this week. What are you dreading? What makes you feel anxious? What happens right now when you begin to look forward to it?
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