Anxious Thoughts can cause your mind to race and your memory to lapse.
Tools to combat performance anxiety help you quiet worries and worst-case scenarios enabling you to take on whatever you desire with full force. Putting the fear of “what if?” behind you.
Anxious thoughts can impact the body, brain and performance.
Many leaders speak of dealing with long standing symptoms of anxiety for long periods of time before persuing a solution. They are successful in spite of these non-stop repetitive thoughts of failure or worry. Then the physical effects surface including physical pain or insufficient sleep. For some it is the inability to make decisions or being powerless to concentrate. Our bodies and brains were not meant to be on constant alert.
The fear of choking, of failing or the worry over almost anything can take down the most successful person.
“As the founder of a tech start-up I would wake up in a sweat worrying about the business, cash flow, late-paying clients, not enough clients, then too many clients. My mind would race and I couldn’t sleep. Caffeine drinks kept me awake and wine put me to sleep. My coaching with Optimal Edge Performance quieted the running thoughts, I sleep through the night and I now have tools to help when the business gets crazy so it doesn’t take control of me.”
Your brain might not look this hot, but it has possibly felt like this. The non-stop thoughts are running so fast it almost feels on fire.
With chronic anxious thoughts, the brain lights up with high frequency, “hypervigilant” waves. It is on constant alert for a threat, 24-7, not able to slow down.
What do we do about it?
More precisely, what do you do about it?
At Optimal Edge Performance you use neurofeedback to calm your brain. With biofeedback, you are coached to develop skills to handle any future anxious thoughts or worries that arise. Think of it as a one, two punch the brain is optimally functioning while the skills help you keep it that way.