A lot of people think about calmness in terms of just having a relaxed body, having a low

heartbeat, and being collected and whatnot, and that's, you know, that is true.

You know, and if you're, we're kind of thinking about it in the opposite of anxiety, because

what does anxiety look like?

It looks like tension.

It looks like a, you know, kind of frenzied, overactive mind, a, you know, a lot of tightness

in the muscles and the body, so we think, well, what's the reverse of that?

That would be calmness, where that is a open body, a clear, focused mind, one that is not

frenzied.

A, you know, a lower heart rate, slow calm breaths.

And while that is calmness, there's actually, you know, another interesting side effect

to it that I've been thinking about, I've come to articulate.

And that is how, how much calmness creates confidence.

So whenever you are tight and tense and feeling anxious and not grounded, then your confidence

in life is often really shaky.

It's because you can't think about the big picture.

You're overthinking so much that you kind of feel like you're in this constant state

of surprise, and you have no connection to your inner landscape, kind of the voice in

your head, the feeling inside of you that is guiding you through every single moment.

Whatever you're anxious in overthinking, that relationship is drastically reduced.

And so you're sort of out there on your own, and you're just reacting to everything

over and over again.

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