Life offers many opportunities to feel fears. Is a one emotion This is extremely unpleasant, it feels uncontrollable and comes from sticking to your head. You are busy with some experience you are going to face and all you can think about is how bad it will be. You try to think optimistically that it will not be so bad, but you are not convinced. Your mind quickly returns to the negative. That you will be very anxious, even panicked, and you will be embarrassed or worse, humiliated. We are more likely to feel scared when we find the expected experience that threatens.
Terrible experience could be something important, such as the likelihood of losing your job or starting cancer treatment or could be as common as shopping in a full supermarket or making a trip to an unknown place . Dread is an intense form of anxiety prediction, which is a sense of concern or concern, for a future experience you expect will be unpleasant.1 If you are often anxious, you know that surfaces long before you deal with the stress of stress.
Anxiety reduction begins with fear
Having high preventive stress, or fear, makes stress much worse. The more you think about how bad an experience will be, the more anxious you will feel. All you can think about is the threat you are ready to face, that it will overwhelm you and you are helpless to face it. Because avoidance looks like the only option, you devise ways to get out of experience. This makes your anxiety worse.
Imagine you are invited to a dinner with a major person you don’t know. You want to make a good impression, but you are terrified that you will do just the opposite. You have received in advance in advance. As the date approaches, all you can think about is an imminent disaster. Every time it enters your mind, stress builds. At some point, the feeling of fear becomes unbearable and you think of any excuse to avoid the transition. You know that stress gets the best of you, that once again, it controls your life, but what can you do? The answer begins with work in fear, the proactive worryThis leads your anxiety. In This looks like stress1 I am discussing strategies that you can use to reduce fear. The following is a brief introduction to two of these intervention strategies.
Practical realistic thinking
Start by identifying what you are fear most. In our example of the awesome dinner, you may be worried that your stress will be on the screen and people will believe that there is something wrong with you. Then write three possibilities on what could happen to the invited dinner: a “Nightmare” scenario for what you are afraid of as the worst possible result, a “tale” scenario of the best outcome and something intermediate, a more realistic scenario. The last scenario may be that you are nervous and probably excluded at the beginning, but eventually settle and contribute to dinner conversation. Then list all the reasons and elements for which the realistic scenario is the most likely result. Every time you feel fear of future experience, you work to build a stronger case for the most likely realistic result. In this way, you change how you think about the future and, in the process, by reducing your expected stress.
Create a Plan of Management
Feelings of fear are caused by excessive thinking about the future. imagining how horrible an experience will be. One medicine is to shift your thinking to the present. Ask yourself, “What can I do now to better prepare for this future experience?“Then you are planning a plan and working to build skills you may need for the future event. For the important dinner, you could consult the resources and then practice in conversation. Play a role with a friend for be categorical and expressing a more confident body languageand work to improve your anxiety management skills. Focusing on the development of skills here and now it will build your confidence and reinforce your belief that the situation may be unpleasant but “I can get through it”.
Conclusion
When we are afraid, we are trapped with our fears and anxiety. Feelings of fear can erode your trust and enhance the belief that you are vulnerable and unable to face the expected experience. Your stress escalates before you even deal with the condition that causes stress. In the end, avoidance looks like the only reasonable solution, causing you to feel again losing to stress. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Changing the way you think about the expected experience and shifting your perspective to the present can reduce the power of fear and contribute to your victory for fear and stress.
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1 Clark, Da (2024). This looks like stress. Oakland, Ca: New Harbinger publications.
This blog was originally posted Psychology today.
