Declutter Your Life & End Anxiety! - Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be | Mel Robbins
Rangan Chatterjee
Mar 1, 2024
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Recognize carrying costs of your identity for true acceptance
Every identity we adopt, even a seemingly positive one like being a perfectionist, has 'carrying costs' because it's driven by an underlying need to be accepted.
High-five to silence your inner critic
It is neurologically impossible to high-five yourself in the mirror and think a negative thought because the positive neuro-association is so deeply entrenched in the brain.
High-five yourself to boost dopamine levels
Your brain doesn't distinguish between you high-fiving yourself or someone else doing it, so it releases dopamine as a reward.
Control hyperventilation to reduce anxiety and irritability
Hyperventilating when you're not physically active lowers carbon dioxide in your blood, which physiologically leads to twitchiness, frenetic thoughts, and irritability.
Utilize foggy glasses as biofeedback for stress management
A neurosurgeon uses his glasses fogging up during an operation as a real-time biofeedback signal that he's breathing too fast and needs to calm down.
View difficulties as seasonal challenges, not permanent setbacks
Viewing difficulties as a 'winter' season to be managed, rather than a permanent setback, is a powerful coping strategy learned from cancer patients.
Achieve true freedom by not minding life’s circumstances
True freedom is not minding what happens in your life, which allows you to stop being a victim of circumstance.
Recognize anxiety as a survival mechanism for real threats
Anxiety is a functional survival mechanism like a smoke detector; it's designed to be overly sensitive and give false alarms to ensure it works when there's a real threat.
Exhale longer than inhale to calm your nervous system
You can directly calm your nervous system by making your exhale longer than your inhale, such as breathing in for four seconds and out for six.
Reclaim downtime to reduce modern stress
The biggest stressor in modern society is the erosion of downtime, as we constantly consume information on our phones instead of allowing our minds to wander and self-reflect.
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