The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
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The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
When we become aware of our thoughts and feelings, we can make choices about which ones we focus on, which ones we energize, which ones we keep, and which ones we let go of or minimize.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
us. But the rapid pace of modern life creates a challenge unprecedented in previous human experience—dealing with the sheer volume of potentially threatening information we process each day.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
We often maintain tension levels that are greater than we need, just from habit. When muscles are tense, their circulation is decreased and they tend to accumulate metabolic waste products such as lactic acid.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
The first psychological reward of worry is that it gives us an illusion of control. Worrying about something can partially satisfy a sense that we are controlling or doing something about whatever is worrying us.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
We might say that wisdom tends to appear in the spaces between our thoughts, and making those spaces bigger by quieting and slowing the thinking mind allows more room for our wisdom to emerge.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
Unskillful worry and the stress and anxiety that accompany it are to a large degree optional.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
Fear sells news, entertainment, and many other products, from insurance policies to household cleaners to medications, because fearful information is hard for the brain to ignore.
Martin Rossman • The Worry Solution: Using breakthrough brain science to turn stress and anxiety into confidence and happiness
If we imagine the brain as the hardware and the mind as the software of consciousness, using imagery would be like taking an old computer, adding a thousand times the memory, and upgrading to an operating system that connects it to the Internet and lets it process information at a blazing rate. Because imagery is the natural coding language of most
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“Lord, grant me the serenity to accept those things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can change, and the wisdom to know the difference.”