Fast Company: How to Harness Your Anxiety
This article was originally posted on Fast Company and is excerpted below. See the full article here.
How to partner with your anxiety, rather than letting it make you miserable
Anxiety itself is not our enemy.
When anxiety is making you miserable, it’s easy to see it as an enemy that must be vanquished at all costs. But brain science reveals a different story.
The brain’s main job, quite literally, is to keep us alive. It does this not only by regulating things such as heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature, but by constantly scanning our environment for potential threats. All of this occurs without our conscious awareness in the limbic system, thought to be the oldest, most primordial part of the brain.
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