Explore how anxiety can show up in your life, work, and relationships
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Can Technology and Mindfulness Get Along?
This is an older post that I'm transferring from Medium, but it still has some good nuggets of wisdom in it, plus a concrete example of how to laugh when everything is stressing you out.
What's Up with Thyroid Problems and Anxiety?
In the past few years, numerous friends have mentioned that they're facing thyroid issues. Invariably, it seems like my sensitive, thoughtful friends are dealing with everything from hypothyroidism to thyroid dysfunction to thyroid cancer. It's made me want to look at the relationship of the thyroid and endocrine system to the nervous system.
George Lakoff on How to Frame Disturbing Political News
This advice from George Lakeoff is so relevant and thoughtful that I want it to be available for everyone to see and bookmark. The below is copied from a post I shared on Facebook.
Lakeoff's wisdom as a cognitive scientist applies to all of us beautiful voyagers moving through this difficult time in America. Hugs, everyone.
Are you finding yourself Dead Sea Scrolling on news stories?
These days the news is unprecedentedly grim. There's no getting around it. We've never had a more divisive culture in America. It is tearing apart families and instilling a deep feeling of panic in many, many people.
The Dead Sea Scroll is particularly harmful to mental health at a time like this. That's why I posted this simple message today on Facebook.
Anxiety Does Not Make You Better At Work
This is hard for me to say to you: fear of fear and excess cortisol, adrenaline surging through your body does not help you be better at your job or family life. The campaigns you've mounted to avoid hormonal physical punishment may lead you to believe that you are better and stronger as a result of your struggles. That's just YOUR STRENGTH shining out despite an impediment. That's not anxiety's good work. You can be just as good and strong without the ongoing obstacle of the hormone surge. You can be even stronger. Happier.
Try: Giving Your Inner Critic a Silly Name
Need a fresh idea for dealing with your inner critic? Of course you do. The critic never goes away. The issue is how to deal with him or her.
Try: Slow TV
My friend Carl (sharer of great ideas in How to Deal with an Anxious Partner) told me that he found himself watching a two-hour train ride to Oslo on Netflix.
"Oh yeah?" I said. "What happened?"
"Literally nothing," he said. "And it was great."
Anxiety and Your Body : An Intuitive Connection
Anxiety is very common at all ages. Even youngsters and the elderly experience it.
If you were to pick out 20 random people off the street I can assure you, at least 15 would have faced anxiety at some point in their life's.
Considering that, I want to explore: