How to Harness Anxiety: the Surprising Upsides to Anxious Suffering

Anxiety is typically considered a negative emotion. After all, nothing feels positive about a pit in your stomach or your heart beating out of your chest. But what if you could harness anxiety for greater motivation, self-awareness, and productivity? Research shows that some anxiety is adaptive, and by changing your relationship with anxiety, you are less likely to suffer its negative effects.

Learning how to harness anxiety can shield you from its negative effects while preserving the good!

The evolutionary origins of anxiety

Learning how to harness anxiety can shield you from its negative effects while preserving the good!

Fight, flight, freeze, or faun?

Reframing your anxiety as excitement can help you to harness anxiety and cope with life’s stressors without getting overwhelmed.

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The surprising upsides of anxiety

An ounce of prevention

Differentiating between helpful and harmful anxiety can help you to harness anxiety.

How to harness your anxiety

You’ll experience anxiety negatively if you see it as interfering with or hindering your progress, as something that only holds you back… However, if you see anxiety as a tool that can help you connect to what you care about and give you the energy to tend to it, you’ll experience it as a sincerely useful emotion that helps you to succeed

Dr. Alicia Clark, author of Hack Your Anxiety: How to Make Your Anxiety Work for You in Life, Love and Work

Conclusion

Genuine confidence is not the absence of fear; it is a transformed relationship with fear.

Dr. Russ Harris, author of The Confidence Gap

How do you harness fear?

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How do you reframe anxiety as motivation?

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Directly translated wohlgefühl means pleasant feeling sense of well-being. Read about everything mental health and wellness.