Discarding Dumbo's Feather - Banishing Anxiety by Taking Action
This session uses a futuristic VR/cinema visualisation to help the listener recall a past version of themselves who felt confident under evaluation, and to identify the two evaluations driving anxiety: perceived capability and perceived stakes. Adam explains three ingredients of anxiety (capability assessment, stakes assessment, and physiology) and teaches diaphragmatic breathing to calm the nervous system. Using the Dumbo’s feather metaphor, he reframes reliance on crutches as unnecessary, since the confidence was always internal. The listener rehearses a month-long montage of saying yes to…
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