In this episode, we discuss how nervousness is a way to keep us connected to the group, and this is an evolutionary mechanism (of course!). It’s separate from a survival fear, though related to it.
We explore how this may show up in our modern worlds, and how it can be a useful way of being able to focus on a task, and how this might be organised in the brain.
We turn to what we might be able to do to support ourselves when we get nervous, how to separate the story we are telling ourselves versus the evidence. How might we, as best we can, prepare for this situation? It’s also helpful to recognise when we are getting nervous – what are our physical responses to it? Can we develop an ease, an acceptance of the possibility that nervousness is here, and that we do have some control?
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