In the heat of the moment, your brain is hard-wired to use all of its resources to find safety. Unfortunately, that ancient programming works great to help you run from a tiger, but actually gets in your way now, when you need to see the bigger picture or get creative in a tough moment to find a good solution. (And the more stressed and overwhelmed you feel, the more your perspective gets negative and narrow; your thinking becomes more black and white.) What you need is a way to find inner calm in the middle of the storm!
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