Level-up Engineering Managing Workplace Stress via Breathing Techniques
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Apr 12, 2023 A former doctor turned leadership adviser explores why workplace pressure can leave people overwhelmed, and how emotions shape performance. The conversation ranges from nerves before a big speech to frustration with coworkers, Olympic ambition, and the animal instincts that can hijack us. Along the way, breathing techniques take center stage as a practical tool for navigating stressful moments.
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Take Ownership Of Your Emotions
- You create your emotional states in response to events, so ownership is the first step to change.
- Alan Watkins says nobody injects you with anxiety; accept you 만든 the biology and then you can alter it.
Study Emotions By Noticing Bodily Details
- Study emotions experientially to tell them apart instead of thinking about them intellectually.
- Alan recommends mapping sensations like body location, size, temperature, color and movement to distinguish nervousness from excitement.
Learn Literacy Then Practice Regulation
- Build emotional literacy then practice regulation to deliberately change states.
- First learn to discriminate nervousness, worry, excitement and anxiety, then rehearse shifting your physiology toward the desired state.