The Wirth Wellness Podcast Episode #16- Is It Stress or Resistance, That’s Keeping You Stuck?
Description:
Are you taking the path of most “emotional resistance,” when it comes to managing your daily stressors? The way of resistance and anxiety, is narrow and contracted, and doesn't produce long-term satisfactory outcomes. What if there was a different way to encounter your stress, that would lead to a more favorable emotional climate? In this episode, Erika offers a strategy for addressing, your all too familiar, stressors, that could help to increase your sense psychological ease. Emotional growth and expansion becomes possible, when you practice the art of turning towards and embracing, with curiosity (eyes wide open), what's keeping you "stuck," rather than resist it.
In The Episode:
Is resistance causing your emotional pain?
The power of embrace, and the 20 second hug
Our eyes widen and narrow with our emotions
Examine if your stress is experiential or cerebral
Don’t get stuck, in the stress “tunnel”
Get curious about taking the alternate thinking “path,” the next time you’re triggered
“Embrace” as the "alternate route," for stress management
Resources:
Video by Dr. Jud Brewer MD PhD.- Move From Anxiety to Curiosity Using Your Eyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkcQ37HEfbs&t=6s
“...Getting Stuck is Bad for You…”- Interview with Drs. Emily and Amelia Nagoski, on their Book, Burnout:
