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What’s the Purpose of Anxiety? Gaining Insights from Our Feelings
Manage episode 298438413 series 2943199
Treść dostarczona przez Konstantin Lukin PhD, Timothy Meyer LCSW, Konstantin Lukin PhD, and Timothy Meyer LCSW. Cała zawartość podcastów, w tym odcinki, grafika i opisy podcastów, jest przesyłana i udostępniana bezpośrednio przez Konstantin Lukin PhD, Timothy Meyer LCSW, Konstantin Lukin PhD, and Timothy Meyer LCSW lub jego partnera na platformie podcastów. Jeśli uważasz, że ktoś wykorzystuje Twoje dzieło chronione prawem autorskim bez Twojej zgody, możesz postępować zgodnie z procedurą opisaną tutaj https://pl.player.fm/legal.
Pop-psych articles often talk of strategies to reduce or outright eliminate our anxieties altogether. They’ll say to be hyper-vigilant and give typical advice, and let’s face it, in 2021, we could all benefit from some anxiety reducing techniques every now and then.
But on the other hand, directing our awareness towards our fears can often help us make effective decisions. In this way, anxiety can serve a purpose, it causes us to take steps and do the right thing.
Rather than try to be happy all the time and never anxious, we should think of our anxiety level as a thermometer, and try to calibrate it properly. Too hot and we can be paralyzed with fear. Too cold, and we can get “stuck” and not take meaningful action.
If a feeling is impacting social functioning for example, or if it’s leading to risky and/or unsafe behavior, then those are signs of functional interference. But we don’t need to be “fixing” every single feeling that we feel.
They key takeaway --- if we try to really understand our feelings and why they’re there, we can learn a lot about ourselves.
Related reading:
Anxiety Free: Unravel Your Fears Before They Unravel You
By Robert L. Leahy Hay House; 2nd edition. 2010.
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