Harnessing the Power of Stress & Anxiety | Dr. Wendy Suzuki

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Entrepreneurship, Fitness, Inspiration, Greatness, Health, Money, Celebrity Interview, Self Care, Celebrity, Success, Mental Health, Relationships, Mindset, Health & Fitness, Education, Alternative Health, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Wendy Suzuki is an award-winning professor of neuroscience and psychology at New York University where she studies the effects of physical activity and meditation on the brain. She is a passionate thought leader spreading the understanding of how we can use the principles of brain plasticity to maximize our brain’s performance and transform our lives for the better. Besides being a TED speaker, Dr. Wendy is also a best-selling author for her book, Healthy Brain, Happy Life. It is like a personal program to activate your brain and do everything better, which has also been made into a PBS special. Her latest book, Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion, is now out in the stands for you guys to check out.

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0:00.0	Anxiety and our stress response, which is causing all those negative feelings, evolutionarily, that is a protective mechanism.
0:08.0	It is necessary for our survival.
0:11.0	How do we harness that and bring it back into submission so it can help us in the way that it was developed or evolved the health.
0:20.0	That is to put us into action.
0:22.0	Welcome to the School of Greatness.
0:25.0	My name is Lewis Howes, a former pro athlete, turned lifestyle entrepreneur.
0:29.0	In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.
0:37.0	Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.
0:46.0	Welcome to today's special episode. Over the last 1300 plus episodes, there have been so many impactful interviews that I've been lucky enough to have.
0:55.0	And I always like to reflect on some of the most powerful.
0:58.0	In this episode was one that resonated with most of you guys in the past.
1:02.0	And I'm excited for the value it's going to bring you today as well.
1:05.0	So I hope you enjoy today's episode.
1:10.0	90% of the population identifies as suffering from anxiety.
1:15.0	Okay, so 90% are affected by anxiety.
1:17.0	Yeah.
1:18.0	Is it possible for us to change the way we think about anxiety and start to heal our brain, heal our mindset around the topic of anxiety so that it doesn't affect us or consume us in our life?
1:30.0	Is that possible?
1:31.0	Absolutely. It is possible.
1:33.0	And I think the first step is to realize that anxiety and our stress response, which is causing all those negative feelings.
1:41.0	Evolutionarily, that is a protective mechanism.
1:44.0	It is necessary for our survival.
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