015 - Anxiety, Super Power or Kryptonite?
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2016
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we talk about anxiety, how it’s different from stress, and what you can do to deal with it. Please, make sure you’ve got your headphones on and all is clear because you are now listening to Tiny Leaps, Big Changes.
You Will Hear:
- What is anxiety?
- How is it different from stress?
- Is anxiety really so bad?
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Music:
NERDS - Underdog | provided by CopyrightFreeNetwork
Resources:
What Anxiety Does to Your Brain and What You Can do About it
Dr. Mercola
articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/12/05/anxiety.aspx
The Relationship Between Anxiety and Performance
Scott Stossel
hbr.org/2014/01/the-relationship-between-anxiety-and-performance/
5 Steps to Find Your Inner Balance and Feel Less Anxious
Jessica Margaret Fessenden
tinybuddha.com/blog/5-steps-to-find-your-inner-balance-and-feel-less-anxious/
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode, we talk about anxiety, how it's different from stress, and what you can do to deal with it. |
| 0:07.6 | Please make sure you've got your headphones on and all is clear because you are now listening to tiny leaps big changes. |
| 0:17.0 | So today's song is called Underdog by a group named nerds. It's ridiculously fast-paced and it's got a bomb beat |
| 0:28.0 | so I thought it kind of perfectly embodied the idea behind today's show topic. |
| 0:34.0 | Enjoy and let's jump into the episode. I give you a sentence, speak so linguistic |
| 0:43.0 | leave on the entrance. |
| 0:44.2 | Hard and cold like the summer breeze. |
| 0:46.2 | Gotta. |
| 0:47.2 | Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, big changes, where I share simple research-backed strategies you can use to get more out of your life. |
| 0:56.0 | My name is Greg Clunis and the word anxiety is searched in Google an average of 5 million times per month. |
| 1:04.6 | That's over 166,000 times every single day. |
| 1:10.0 | Not surprisingly, 51% of those searches are coming from the United States. |
| 1:15.2 | The fact is, we've created a world for ourselves that leaves us anxious. |
| 1:20.2 | Why is that? |
| 1:21.2 | Anxiety is an emotional response that was originally meant to protect us from potential dangers by making us more cautious. |
| 1:28.0 | In the US, especially, we don't experience many dangers on a daily basis. |
| 1:32.6 | So why are we so anxious all the time? |
| 1:35.6 | There's research to show that the Climb, the Ladders lifestyle we've created for ourselves |
| 1:40.3 | is a big contributor to our anxiety, |
| 1:42.4 | but I won't get too far into that aspect of things right now. |
| 1:46.1 | Stay tuned for a future episode. For now, I want to talk about four things. |
| 1:50.3 | Number one, what is anxiety? Number two, how is anxiety different from stress? |
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