Dr. Martha Beck

Yep. Yep. You can go like that into the energy that changes anxiety into calm. And it's not turning down the volume. It's more like satisfying a thirst. The anxious part of us is desperate to be told it can take a break. It can take a rest. Yeah. And then there's this huge, huge sense of relief when it starts to let go.

And then you can start to move from initial sensation going into fear, which is the left hemisphere reaction, to an amygdala reaction that moves you toward curiosity. That's the first step that is really going to take you away from anxiety completely. And it's closely linked. It's like, have you ever rubbernecked at an accident site you drive by?

And then you can start to move from initial sensation going into fear, which is the left hemisphere reaction, to an amygdala reaction that moves you toward curiosity. That's the first step that is really going to take you away from anxiety completely. And it's closely linked. It's like, have you ever rubbernecked at an accident site you drive by?

And then you can start to move from initial sensation going into fear, which is the left hemisphere reaction, to an amygdala reaction that moves you toward curiosity. That's the first step that is really going to take you away from anxiety completely. And it's closely linked. It's like, have you ever rubbernecked at an accident site you drive by?

We all try not to, but we all want to. Yeah. And we watch so many murders. The average American child, by the time they go to college, has watched 16,000 murder shows of one kind or another. Murder mysteries, movies about it, stories about it, everything. We're fixated on things that make us afraid. And the reason for that is evolutionary, again.

We all try not to, but we all want to. Yeah. And we watch so many murders. The average American child, by the time they go to college, has watched 16,000 murder shows of one kind or another. Murder mysteries, movies about it, stories about it, everything. We're fixated on things that make us afraid. And the reason for that is evolutionary, again.

We all try not to, but we all want to. Yeah. And we watch so many murders. The average American child, by the time they go to college, has watched 16,000 murder shows of one kind or another. Murder mysteries, movies about it, stories about it, everything. We're fixated on things that make us afraid. And the reason for that is evolutionary, again.

I was once in a field where a bobcat was hunting, and he caught a ground squirrel, killed it, and ran up a tree. And from all around the field, deer came bounding onto the field and ran to the base of the tree and just stood there looking up, like riveted on the bobcat eating this ground squirrel. And I learned that's a very common prey animal reaction.

I was once in a field where a bobcat was hunting, and he caught a ground squirrel, killed it, and ran up a tree. And from all around the field, deer came bounding onto the field and ran to the base of the tree and just stood there looking up, like riveted on the bobcat eating this ground squirrel. And I learned that's a very common prey animal reaction.

I was once in a field where a bobcat was hunting, and he caught a ground squirrel, killed it, and ran up a tree. And from all around the field, deer came bounding onto the field and ran to the base of the tree and just stood there looking up, like riveted on the bobcat eating this ground squirrel. And I learned that's a very common prey animal reaction.

They're studying the scenario so they can try to avoid it later. Oh, wow. And that's curiosity. And when you start to get curious, there's a great psychiatrist named Judson Brewer who takes anxious patients out into the, he takes them on hikes, get them in nature. It helps the nervous system, but then he'll stop at a certain place and say, hmm.

They're studying the scenario so they can try to avoid it later. Oh, wow. And that's curiosity. And when you start to get curious, there's a great psychiatrist named Judson Brewer who takes anxious patients out into the, he takes them on hikes, get them in nature. It helps the nervous system, but then he'll stop at a certain place and say, hmm.

They're studying the scenario so they can try to avoid it later. Oh, wow. And that's curiosity. And when you start to get curious, there's a great psychiatrist named Judson Brewer who takes anxious patients out into the, he takes them on hikes, get them in nature. It helps the nervous system, but then he'll stop at a certain place and say, hmm.

And sometimes he even has another doctor go with him and they both look in the same direction and go, hmm. And immediately the depressed, anxious people with them go, what, what, what, what, what? And there's a palpable mood shift away from anxiety and into curiosity. And he said he writes about doing this with an athletic team, an Olympic team. And they were training to bring down their anxiety.

And sometimes he even has another doctor go with him and they both look in the same direction and go, hmm. And immediately the depressed, anxious people with them go, what, what, what, what, what? And there's a palpable mood shift away from anxiety and into curiosity. And he said he writes about doing this with an athletic team, an Olympic team. And they were training to bring down their anxiety.

And sometimes he even has another doctor go with him and they both look in the same direction and go, hmm. And immediately the depressed, anxious people with them go, what, what, what, what, what? And there's a palpable mood shift away from anxiety and into curiosity. And he said he writes about doing this with an athletic team, an Olympic team. And they were training to bring down their anxiety.

And when it would start to go up, they would all just say, huh. And then immediately it would trigger a curiosity reaction and they could get away. They could get some distance from the anxiety. And that's the first step toward what I call the creativity spiral, which I see as the antithesis of the anxiety spiral.

And when it would start to go up, they would all just say, huh. And then immediately it would trigger a curiosity reaction and they could get away. They could get some distance from the anxiety. And that's the first step toward what I call the creativity spiral, which I see as the antithesis of the anxiety spiral.

And when it would start to go up, they would all just say, huh. And then immediately it would trigger a curiosity reaction and they could get away. They could get some distance from the anxiety. And that's the first step toward what I call the creativity spiral, which I see as the antithesis of the anxiety spiral.

Yeah. Here's the thing. The left hemisphere has this strange tendency known as hemispatial neglect. And what that means is that it doesn't believe that anything except itself is real, itself and its own perceptions. So if someone has a right hemisphere stroke and And they only are working with their left hemisphere.