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The Power of Calm – Chris Bailey

Freedom Matters

CHAPTER

The Benefits of a Calm State of Mind

Anxiety actually shrinks one measure of our cognitive capacity by about 20%. So we have less processing power to give to the world around us. Anxiety limits our cognitive performance in general. We get more negative self-talk and feel less engaged, less present with whatever we're doing or whomever it is that we're with.

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