Your Anxiety Can Become An Essential Guiding Force of Life

Convert Your Anxiety into an Inner Power to Perform Better

Before any interview, performance, presentation or match people become so nervous and anxious about the result and their performance that they get perturbed and stop focusing on the preparation.  No wonder when mind becomes enmeshed in this turmoil anxiety overpowers them before they realize. This last hour anxiety can either impinge on  one’s performance or take it a notch higher; the difference is entirely in your capacity to turn it into your inner power to perform better. This ubiquitous influence of performance pressure can be effectively used to give rise to the courage that can ridicule your fear and anxiety if only you train your mind to convert your anxiety into an essential guiding force of life. Let’s learn to recognize and embrace our anxiety to plan with more energy and perfection. Let’s learn to keep our fear unacknowledged with better planning and perfectionism.  

In a recent interview Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar, India’s batting maestro and one of the finest batsmen of the world, spoke about himself keeping awake whole night, just tossing and turning in bed, thinking about the next day’s match. It was after a decade, when Sachin realized that perhaps these sleepless nights were the part of the process of getting prepared for the match. Any kind of anxiety or nervousness before any big or special event of your life is quite normal and everyone goes through it. This nervousness actually prepares you for the harder challenges and you come out of it as a winner so it’s absolutely natural to feel anxiety before an important day.

An overwhelming surge of anxiety and fear is often considered as weakness which is sheer fallacy. This nervousness is very important to help you enquire about your strategy, planning and preparation. It ramps up the process of self-evolvement and pushes you hard to move heaven and earth to reconstruct yourself for the final moment.

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Plan, Prepare &Practice

Performance anxiety is not a problem or weakness but a natural phenomenon and many seasoned presenters, speakers, politicians, players and celebrities also feel this nervousness which constantly alerts and prepares your mind to give your best and helps you galvanize your efforts to make it a memorable experience for you. Once you convert your anxiety into the guiding force, it ameliorates the effects of performance pressure on you and you can channelize your efforts to plan and prepare for the event. Your anxiety woks as a tough trainer and keeps reminding you to put in a little more; you only need to understand how to manage the level of anxiety and fear. Seeing any opportunity on your way must make you ready to sink your teeth into and this nervousness is a signal that this opportunity matters a lot for you so plan, prepare, practice and perform with utmost honesty so that you can ease yourself. Organize your thoughts, determine the best flow, be mindful and trust your instincts. 

Visualize the Series of Events and Your Success

There’s immense power in visualization, one has to see the image, the glory in one’s mind before venturing forth to manifest it. Try to invest your anxious hours in visualizing what you are to attain and accomplish after this event and live your conviction. Many of us erroneously think that power of visualization can work only with longer meditations; the fact is everyone can achieve their goals conditioning their brain to see, hear and feel the success in mind with honest and Consistent Efforts. It improves your performance outcomes; it’s training your mind the same way you practice and work upon learning the nuances of any skill. Visualization helps you prepare for a high pressure situation so devote your hours of anxiety to visualization and see how things change miraculously.

Admire Yourself For Giving Your Best

Myriads of things in our life are a reflection of who we are as people, how we think in certain situations and respond to them.  Just a little mindfulness helps us relinquish the fear of future and arouse the need to operate in present moment. If present can be improved future will change accordingly. The moments of anxiety can realign the thoughts, enhances objectivity and gives the best ideas to fight the challenges. Your anxiety and last moment pressure can be used as your boatman who can take you ashore safely through the storm. So learn to utilize it. Always trust your instincts and trust me your instincts will never fail you.

As T S Eliot rightly said, “Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.” So train your brain to assign the duty to your anxiety to stay vigorous and optimistic in any difficult situation and come out of it as a winner, as an achiever. Your anxiety will certainly follow your instructions, undoubtedly your anxiety can become an essential guiding force of life.