545: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety with Dr. Chloe Carmichael
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
What if physical and emotional pain, depression, and even anxiety were all adaptive? Meaning these negative feelings are designed to protect us from harm and ensure our survival. Anxiety can be viewed as a call for preparedness, a stimulating feeling designed to help you avoid danger or prepare for important events. Once you’re able to understand why anxiety occurs, it’s possible to transform these feelings into productive action. My guest on this week’s podcast will show you how.
Listen and learn:
- How anxiety stimulates preparation behavior
- How to use the mental shortlist technique to refocus
- Why highly conscientious people often experience high levels of anxiety
- How anger should be used to define personal boundaries
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr. Chloe Carmichael is a psychologist. In her private practice she focuses on stress management, relationship issues, self esteem, and coaching. She is the author of Nervous Energy: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety.
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| 0:00.0 | What if we went back in time 300 years and you and your family lived in a single farm house |
| 0:08.4 | in the middle of nowhere in the plains states for example near the river and you were out for a walk |
| 0:15.0 | with your family in the evening gathering some food and looking after your land when you saw |
| 0:19.8 | in the distance some storm clouds and not just some storm clouds but some familiar storm clouds |
| 0:25.2 | very very dark and they were reminiscent of the storm that had come three years ago |
| 0:30.6 | that had washed out your entire field damaged your home and carried away most of your belongings |
| 0:34.9 | when the river flooded well that night when you get back to the house and you hear the thunder |
| 0:40.0 | and you see the lightning light up your windows you will be anxious and you will be worried and |
| 0:45.2 | if you're smart you will also take action you will bundle up your possessions you will put |
| 0:49.3 | things on the roof of the house rather than leave them in the floor storage cellar unit and you will |
| 0:54.6 | do things that will give you a much greater chance of survival that's adaptive anxiety now maladaptive |
| 1:00.6 | anxiety I think almost all of us can relate to and this is tossing and turning at 11 o'clock at night |
| 1:05.5 | worrying about some conflict in some country that you've never been to that you have absolutely no |
| 1:10.6 | power over this is you tossing and turning worrying about a work project that nobody even knows |
| 1:16.6 | you're working on all of us have adaptive anxiety all of us have maladapted anxiety at the same time |
| 1:23.4 | all of these things were originally designed to keep you safe so what if you could tap back into |
| 1:27.3 | that great planes lifestyle what if you could tap back into the the things that make me worried |
| 1:33.5 | are giving me a warning and what if you could utilize anxiety to make you happier and more productive |
| 1:39.6 | and maybe even more powerful that's my guests message on this week's podcast if you're new here |
| 1:44.7 | it's the Lucas Rockwood show I'm a yoga teacher and trainer I'm a serial entrepreneur I'm the father |
| 1:49.2 | of three kids firstly I'm a student I use this show as a way to learn things I find experts and |
| 1:54.4 | doctors and researchers and authors I bring their work on the show so hopefully we can live more |
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