3 steps to go from anxiety to curiosity using your eyes (Coronavirus Anxiety Daily Update 23)
The Dr. Jud Podcast
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How to Use Curiousness to Conquer Fear
Dont charles darwin theorized that in the face of uncertainty, we open our eyes to literally gather more sensory information about whether there's danger out there. Eye widening when combined with other facial cues of fear also serves as a social signal to let others know that we're afraid. What do your eyes do when you're really curious? They get big and wide, don't they? This may be where the phrase wide eyed wonder comes from. And how we can use curiosity to conquer fear. I talked about associative sematic memories. This is how we learn to pair body sensations and body positions with emotions.
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