Summary of Finding Your Why - The First Step to Dealing With Anxiety - Anxiety Course Day 1/30
Key Wellness Strategies and Self-Care Techniques
- Radical Responsibility: Take ownership of your anxiety and commit to changing what you can.
- Shift Goals: Instead of aiming to reduce anxiety, focus on what you want to achieve despite the anxiety.
- Face Anxiety: Understand that avoiding anxiety leads to a shrinking life; engage with it to pursue your goals.
- Skill Development: Learn to communicate clearly, set healthy boundaries, and problem-solve assertively in relationships to reduce the impact of difficult interactions.
- Visualize Your Goals: Spend time imagining the life you desire, including joy and excitement, rather than focusing solely on reducing anxiety.
- Identify Your "Why": Determine what you care about more than just alleviating anxiety to motivate you through discomfort.
Productivity Tips
- Workbook Exercises: Use a workbook to identify goals and reflect on how anxiety has impacted your life, including what you have avoided.
- Visualization Exercise: Imagine a day where anxiety does not control your choices; write about the feelings and experiences associated with that vision.
- Embrace Discomfort: Recognize that some discomfort is part of pursuing a fulfilling life, and learn to tolerate it.
Presenters/Sources
- The video is part of a 30-day anxiety skills course, presented by an unnamed instructor.
Notable Quotes
— 00:15 — « I'm gonna ask you to take radical responsibility for your anxiety. »
— 04:00 — « The only way to make your anxiety go away completely is to avoid the things you care about in life. »
— 07:22 — « Trying to not feel something is what's called dead people goals. The only people who don't feel any anxiety are people who are dead. »
— 08:27 — « The only way to feel less is to cut the things you care about out of your life. »
— 08:41 — « The paradox of anxiety is that the more we try to make it go away, the more messages we send to our brain that this anxiety thing is really important. »
Category
Wellness and Self-Improvement