875: Anxiety From Not Being Productive
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses the benefits of taking time to do nothing. Many people are not comfortable with meditation and can realize many of the benefits through setting aside time to not do anything productive. Listen in to find out how putting the phone down and zoning out for a while rather than scrolling can be beneficial, especially for those with anxiety.
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How Beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.
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| 0:19.9 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, |
| 0:33.6 | panic and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:43.0 | Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. I'm your host and coach, |
| 0:49.1 | Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today as together we can consider the many ways |
| 0:57.8 | to bring your mind and body back to its natural peace and calm. In today's episode, I want to talk |
| 1:05.5 | about having anxiety from not being productive. I had shared an article on Twitter and I thought, |
| 1:16.0 | geez, that would actually be a good article to talk about on the show because many people |
| 1:24.0 | do get anxious about not being productive. This happens a lot of times when people go on vacation, |
| 1:32.0 | they start to feel a little irritable because they're not working. They're not being productive, |
| 1:39.8 | they're not getting things done. And you don't have to be working in the corporate world to be |
| 1:45.3 | having that feeling. Many people who are at home with kids get the same feeling. They just |
| 1:52.6 | have a feeling of needing to be productive. So when I ran across this article, I thought it was |
| 1:58.4 | a great thing to be sharing with you guys. So I just want to read a couple little clips out of it |
| 2:03.2 | and then give you some tips and ideas how you can incorporate this into your own life being able |
| 2:10.3 | to enjoy and be peaceful when you're not being productive. So this was an article that I will |
| 2:18.0 | link in the show notes the entire article was written about Lawrence University course that was |
| 2:27.4 | put together to help students intentionally learn how to slow down. So year after year, |
| 2:35.8 | Constance Casser and her colleagues at Lawrence University have been noticing students seem to be |
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