Overcome Overwhelm & Anxiety with these 3 Neuroscience-Backed Tips

Learning how to better navigate your state during times of uncertainty, to reduce overwhelm, stress and anxiety, and actually perform, is really important at work – especially if you want to establish yourself as a credible leader. Let’s face it – the workplace is full of change - from restructures or re-organizations, to new policies, transformation programs, new management and new priorities. It can become exhausting really quickly and could lead to burnout. In this video, I’ve invited my business partner and husband Faysal to join and we’ll be sharing 3 insights from recent neuroscience research to help you perform during uncertainty. The three insights are: 1️⃣ Break free from stress-induced ‘tunnel-vision’ 2️⃣ repurpose the ‘struggle’, and 3️⃣ See Uncertainty as a learning opportunity You’ll find references to the research below. __________________________________________ 🚀FREE TRAINING– Career Clarity: https://www.shadezahrai.com/cct-registration To find out more about Shadé, visit the website: https://www.shadezahrai.com FOLLOW ON SOCIAL: • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shadezahrai/ • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@shadezahrai • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shadezahraispeaker • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shadezahrai __________________________________________ 📚 REFERENCES: Experiment re Electric Shocks: de Berker, A.O., Rutledge, R.B., Mathys, C., Marshall, L., Cross, G.F., Dolan, R.J., Bestmann, S. (2016). Computations of uncertainty mediate acute stress responses in humans. Nature communications, 7, 10996. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10996 Lateralised Eye-Movement and aMygdala Deactivation: de Voogd, L. D., Kanen, J. W., Neville, D. A., Roelofs, K., Fernández, G., & Hermans, E. J. (2018). Eye-Movement Intervention Enhances Extinction via Amygdala Deactivation. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 38(40), 8694–8706. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0703-18.2018 Brain Circuits Salay, L.D., Ishiko, N. & Huberman, A.D. A midline thalamic circuit determines reactions to visual threat. Nature 557, 183–189 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0078-2 Massi, B., Donahue, C. H., Lee, D. (2018). Volatility Facilitates Value Updating in the Prefrontal Cortex. Neuron, 99(3): 598-608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.06.033 Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman Video Interview (with Tom Bilyeu) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGa_jt3IncY

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Released: December 6, 2020
Duration: 6m
Channel: Dr. Shadé Zahrai
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Learning how to better navigate your state during times of uncertainty, to reduce overwhelm, stress and anxiety, and actually perform, is really important at work – especially if you want to establish yourself as a credible leader. Let’s face it – the workplace is full of change - from restructures or re-organizations, to new policies, transformation programs, new management and new priorities. It can become exhausting really quickly and could lead to burnout. In this video, I’ve invited my business partner and husband Faysal to join and we’ll be sharing 3 insights from recent neuroscience research to help you perform during uncertainty. The three insights are: 1️⃣ Break free from stress-induced ‘tunnel-vision’ 2️⃣ repurpose the ‘struggle’, and 3️⃣ See Uncertainty as a learning opportunity You’ll find references to the research below. __________________________________________ 🚀FREE TRAINING– Career Clarity: https://www.shadezahrai.com/cct-registration To find out more about Shadé, visit the website: https://www.shadezahrai.com FOLLOW ON SOCIAL:
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__________________________________________ 📚 REFERENCES: Experiment re Electric Shocks: de Berker, A.O., Rutledge, R.B., Mathys, C., Marshall, L., Cross, G.F., Dolan, R.J., Bestmann, S. (2016). Computations of uncertainty mediate acute stress responses in humans. Nature communications, 7, 10996. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10996 Lateralised Eye-Movement and aMygdala Deactivation: de Voogd, L. D., Kanen, J. W., Neville, D. A., Roelofs, K., Fernández, G., & Hermans, E. J. (2018). Eye-Movement Intervention Enhances Extinction via Amygdala Deactivation. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 38(40), 8694–8706. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0703-18.2018 Brain Circuits Salay, L.D., Ishiko, N. & Huberman, A.D. A midline thalamic circuit determines reactions to visual threat. Nature 557, 183–189 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0078-2 Massi, B., Donahue, C. H., Lee, D. (2018). Volatility Facilitates Value Updating in the Prefrontal Cortex. Neuron, 99(3): 598-608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.06.033 Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman Video Interview (with Tom Bilyeu) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGa_jt3IncY

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Dr. Shadé Zahrai
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Neuroscience-backed leadership and performance expert and the host of the Dr. Shadé Zahrai channel.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Dr. Shadé Zahrai, featuring Dr. Shadé Zahrai and Dr. Shadé Zahrai, Overcome Overwhelm & Anxiety with these 3 Neuroscience-Backed Tips explores three neuroscience tips to reduce uncertainty stress and perform better Uncertainty can be more stressful than a guaranteed negative outcome because the brain finds unpredictability especially threatening.

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