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Overcome Performance AnxietyBY: maftab92 | Category: Self Improvement | Post Date: 2009-04-01
Anxiety is a normal and natural physiological response to a situation, which is dangerous, threatening, or challenging. This performance anxiety condition is also known as to be -fight or flight response-. Different people might look at different difficult or challenging situations in a different way but the human body will respond to the situation in a similar way. For example, a student avoids group discussions or run away from his presentations, or avoids to face other social situations is actually having performance anxiety. His anxiety is perceived or imagined. In other words it's all in the mind. On the other hand other students will be able to cope with the similar situation. When the fight or flight response is triggered, a part of the brain causes a rush of adrenaline into the system, rapidly followed by cortisol. Within a few seconds these hormones flood the body and circulate through the bloodstream, reaching all the organs and activating every cell in the body and human body starts to work differently: • Sugar level goes up slightly to boost the energy level • Increased level of oxygen in the body • Increased heart beat • Blood pressure will get raised slightly • Increased blood circulation of blood to the brain to help take a quick decision • Increased blood circulation to the muscles to take a quick action • Dryness of the mouth • Sweating Why human body reacts differently? Whenever we face a difficult or a challenging situation in life, our bodies prepare to deal with it using anxiety to fuel the fight or flight response. So, fight or flight response is helpful. This is a very powerful response to difficult or challenging situations that evolved many thousands of years ago when the life was simple and they had to manage food, they needed shelter and the only threat was an invader or an attack by a dangerous animal. Food was available in abundance; a place to live was available easily. The only situation that was responsible to trigger the fight or flight response was either an invader or attack by an animal. Let's assume what can happen in that situation. The brain will send a variety of chemical messages to the body that trigger the anxiety response via the nervous system. There is also a release of the hormone ‘adrenaline' into the body. This helps the body to prepare for the challenges. In the ‘fight or flight' response, the body prepares to either fight or fly in order to escape a physical danger such as being attacked. So, the cave man will either fight it out or run away to find another place to live. But in modern day life, many of the dangers that trigger anxiety reactions may not involve physical risk. Instead, we may fear stressful situations that are perceived for example, not achieving a particular goal most probably because of perfectionism. However, our bodies still react as if the danger was physical in nature. Our hearts still race and our muscles tense up in preparation to ‘fight or run'. This leads to the unpleasant physical symptoms that often arise during anxiety. On top of it in today's life the fight or flight response gets prolonged. It's never ending. During anxiety reactions, many people misinterpret their physical reactions and may fear that they are going to have a heart attack or a stroke or may believe that they are about to collapse or faint and it becomes a vicious cycle. What causes performance anxiety? Though anxiety has genetic reasons at the same time environmental factors play a great role to learn to experience anxiety in certain situations. Mostly, we learn to be fearful or anxious in early childhood. Parents, Teachers and Other Significant people pay an important role by: • Keeping high expectations from their children • Children learn to become perfectionists • Physical, verbal or sexual abuse • Any other traumatic experience • Children learn to feel shy In early childhood they manage to cope with it, some get out of it with time. But others feel that the problem has become severe to the extent they feel themselves to be helpless and many of them remain unable to continue with their studies. Techniques to overcome performance anxiety 1- Learn that anxiety is a normal and natural bodily response 2- Accept that fight and flight response is Nature's way to help you 3- Learn to relax, relaxation really helps 4- Overcome past unpleasant memories and learn to reprogram your mind 5- You can reprogram your mind by using imagination 6- Develop positive attitude: -I can do it- 7- Kill your perfectionism and stop becoming self conscious 8- Expose yourself to difficult situations and Just do it 9- You will feel anxiety and remember having some anxiety is healthy and it will remain with you for some time and will disappear soon 10- Celebrate your achievements Article Source: http://www.saching.com About Author / Additional Info: Additional Articles: * VIRUS in computers: What are they and where do they come from! * Indian athletes - Why we fail to win medals in Olympic games. * IIT Bombay Powai: A personal experience. 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