How to Handle Anxiety (especially when speaking in public)

4 Approaches to handle anxiety as shared with me several years ago by Pep Mari, psychologist to the Spanish Olympic team. (Check out his youtube channel here, full of great tips, in Spanish)

How to Handle Anxiety:

1. Avoid – don’t go into the situation that causes you to feel anxiety in the first place
2. Manage – become aware of your state of anxiety at regular intervals and find tools to increase or decrease your level.
3. Accept – allow the physical and mental signs of anxiety to exist in you and maintain a state of curiosity and exploration without resisting
4. Growth – see the anxiety as part of being human and be so focussed on the learning about what it is to be human that you forget about everything except the experience

How To Reduce Stress:

List shared as a comment below the video by Bright Minds

• 1. Don’t respond to negativity
• 2. Stay active
• 3. Eat healthier
• 4. Read and write more
• 5. Give without expectations
• 6. Visualize, then act
• 7. Spend quality time with family
• 8. Write ‘thank you’ notes
• 9. Be a better friend
• 10. Do a random acts of kindness