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While too much and anxiety can be debilitating, too little and anxiety is not good either.

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We need a certain amount of anxiety to motivate us to take care of things that matter to us.

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Beta was lying in bed debating whether to hit snooze one more time.

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He checked the clock at six a.m. His train left in one hour.

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Better imagine the consequences of having to take a later one, which would mean being late to his first

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meeting of the day.

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His boss definitely would not take that will.

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Beater turned off his alarm and get up to work.

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Peter was experiencing the right amount of anxiety enough to get him up and out of bed on time, and

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not so much that he felt overwhelmed or that it embarrassed his performance.

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Like Peter, we have the ability to imagine future outcomes that depend on our actions, whether it's

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work, a job interview, a competitive event or anything else.

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We know our actions affect what happens.

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This knowledge creates a heightened state of energy and motivation to give our best third performance.

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CBT looks at the connections among those feelings and behaviors with an anxiety.

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The thoughts are focused on threat.

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The feelings include nervousness and fear, and the behaviors include efforts to prevent the feared

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outcomes.

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Blah's experiences with an anxiety as he waited for news of her mother looked like this and thought,

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What if my mom has cancer?

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What if something goes wrong during surgery?

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Feelings, anxious, tense behaviors, reading medical websites, pacing, checking phone.

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Laura worries about her mother's health fuel, her anxiety and tension, which in turn cause her more

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worried thoughts, her feelings and behaviors interact and reinforce one another, creating a tightly

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wound state of anxious apprehension.

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While Laura's anxiety manifested as intense worries, there are many ways that an anxiety shows up in

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our lives.