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The other group is not given that instruction.

You then go in and you do these things and then you come back.

The group that said, I'm excited, ended up feeling less anxiety and performing better.

That is the power of relabeling an emotion.

We often just take an emotion as a given, because what's happening is we feel something physiologically, right?

So you would feel your heart, what would you feel if you were anxious?

Jittery.

Yeah, maybe a little tense.

Yeah, maybe increasing heat, body heat.

So these are physiological sensations.

Then,

Your brain will interpret that because you might have just had four shots of coffee immediately before, in which case your brain would go, oh, this is probably from the coffee.

But if you're in a situation where you're about to go and sing to an audience, your brain is going to interpret the physiology of what you're feeling.

The physiology of what you're feeling and go, oh.

there is such a big risk here of you going out there singing making a fool of yourself getting rejected people will criticize you magnifying these things and so you identify fear this is fear this is anxiety

And it's why that similar feeling could be what you get when you're waiting for your favorite band to come on stage.

The anticipation, the heat, the intensity, the heart rate, the jittery.

In that environment, it's exciting.

But the same physiology in a different situation where there's social judgment is considered fear.

Completely, which is fascinating, right?