Stress: The Minimum Effective Dose

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Personal Development, Presence, Mental Health, Wellness, Personal Growth, Meditation, Self-improvement, Mindfulness, Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Positive Psychology, Happiness, Buddhism

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🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

There's a sweet spot between ultimate calm and ultimate anxiety that enables to get done what we need to get done. Where is that for you? In this episode, we'll discuss how to find that.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back to Practicing Human.
0:03.0	The podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:07.0	I'm your host, Corey Musgara.
0:09.0	And in today's episode, we're going to talk about
0:12.0	what is the minimum effective dose of anxiety in order
0:16.4	to get things done.
0:18.6	More to come on that in a moment.
0:20.9	First, let's settle in with the sound of this series of COVID-19 podcast episodes, I recorded an
0:48.6	episode titled How to Panic While Remaining Calm. And in that episode we talked about five how to panic while remaining calm.
0:53.0	And in that episode we talked about five steps or stages
0:57.3	we can go through when meeting a particular fear response. And if you listen to that episode, you remember that
1:05.0	stage three was about working with your what ifs and what is,
1:10.0	what is?
1:12.0	Let's just say what ifs and what is.
1:14.0	So the what ifs are the, this is the thinking about the future.
1:19.0	What if this happens?
1:20.0	What if that could happen?
1:21.0	A lot of times when I talk about the what if mind, I talk about it almost
1:25.2	with an erotic kind of tone. What if this, what if this, what if this? But the what if mind can be very
1:30.7	calculated and logical.
1:32.6	What if this happens?
1:33.7	I should take action.
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