The excellent @thebowencenter posted on their FB wall an excellent 'check list' of anxiety. We could all do to pause, and check ourselves against this list:
Dial up the anxiety, and people start to:
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Dial up the anxiety, and people start to:
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• Become increasingly suspicious.
• Feel more sensitive when others disagree.
• Provoke people to get a reaction.
• Block out information that challenges their view.
• Discard their beliefs to please the group.
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• Feel more sensitive when others disagree.
• Provoke people to get a reaction.
• Block out information that challenges their view.
• Discard their beliefs to please the group.
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• Act helpless.
• Label one person as the problem.
• Alternate between attacking and avoiding problems.
• View problems as more simplistic than they actually are.
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• Label one person as the problem.
• Alternate between attacking and avoiding problems.
• View problems as more simplistic than they actually are.
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And then they post the behaviors we can practice to move toward health, move from being in anxiety's grip, to managing anxiety.
Those behaviors are:
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Those behaviors are:
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• Focus on defining their beliefs.
• Focus on communicating rather than attacking.
• Relay fact-based rather than fear-based messages.
• Manage their anxiety when others’ disagree.
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• Focus on communicating rather than attacking.
• Relay fact-based rather than fear-based messages.
• Manage their anxiety when others’ disagree.
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• Examine information that challenges their views.
• Lead with principle-driven and not relationship-driven
behavior.
• Sit with the discomfort that problems are complex.
The whole post is here: facebook.com/thebowencenter/
Thanks @trishaltaylor for posting on FB
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• Lead with principle-driven and not relationship-driven
behavior.
• Sit with the discomfort that problems are complex.
The whole post is here: facebook.com/thebowencenter/
Thanks @trishaltaylor for posting on FB
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