Anticipatory anxiety is the anxiety one feels before a performance, a speech, or some other task that is to be undertaken. Some also call this performance anxiety although this term is usually reserved for the anxiety felt "during" the task in question.

What is the purpose of feeling anticipatory anxiety?

Well if you look at it closely you might "think" that it is supposed to prepare you for the task at hand, so that,

You will be alert, aware, focused, on task, and performing at your best, so that,

You will feel confident and perform the task well, so that,

You will succeed, so that,

You will feel accomplished, happy, joyful, relieved, and good about yourself.

In other words you might believe unconsciously that:

(A) Anticipatory anxiety makes you feel accomplished, happy, joyful, relieved, and good about yourself, correct?

If you however "feel" what it feels like to be caught "in" the anticipatory anxiety itself I think you will find that it makes you feel:

1. Anxious

2. Vulnerable

3. Tense

4. Out of control

5. Perhaps frustrated

6. Unfocused

7. With poor concentration

8. That your judgment and performance are impaired

9. Angry with yourself because you can't seem to relax

In other words it makes you feel horrible, horrible about yourself and it undermines your success.

So you see Statement (A) above is False.

Right now, I would like you to take a moment and notice how you feel inside.

If you are feeling lighter, a sense of relief, calmer, happier, more energized, more buoyant or any other positive feeling then you have just experienced a release of this anticipatory anxiety deep from within your body.

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Dr. Nick Arrizza is trained in Chemical Engineering, Business Management & Leadership, Medicine and Psychiatry. He is an Energy Psychiatrist, Healer, Key Note Speaker,Editor of a New Ezine Called "Spirituality And Science" (which is requesting high quality article submissions) Author of "Esteem for the Self: A Manual for Personal Transformation" (available in ebook format on his web site), Stress Management Coach, Peak Performance Coach & Energy Medicine Researcher, Specializes in Life and Executive Performance Coaching, is the Developer of a powerful new tool called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) that helps build physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being by helping to permanently release negative beliefs, emotions, perceptions and memories. He holds live workshops, international telephone coaching sessions and international teleconference workshops on Physical. Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Well Being.

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