We were rolling along on a promising project recently, when a person ... with obvious anxiety... joined the group. Suddendly, the whole group lost serious ground, as we all tried to deal with this person’s posts of “confusion… exhaustion … stress … and general anxiety" over his project results.
He continually told the group – he wanted excellence – while his anxiety robbed any possibility of that happening. It makes sense ... in light of what we now know about how stress works against the human brain. It also destroys a group’s performance. 
Sadly, that person’s negativity and frequent statements of problems ... slowed the entire group down. Generous people wasted their energy trying in vain to relieve the person's problems. Lost effort and talent from an entire team gave the rewards to a more positive, competitive team who won the contact ….
How do you enter a circle of people at work or Online? Do you throw lots of problems at the group – or are you part of innovative solutions? Do you recognize how your posts can tear down, and reword them to build up and inspire excellence instead?
If you’ve built patterns for expressing more negatives than solutions that inspire others around you, or if you slow a group down by problems of confusion …. you’ll be happy to see science that helps people reduce anxiety before they join any circle or project. A new study has led to more help for anxious workers.
A new research study show how we can help to reduce worries for people who suffer from anxiety ... and who pass that disorder to fellow workers.
It’s now evident that people with generalized anxiety disorder will worry -- about many things at a time ---- in ways that disrupt their daily living and limit people around them. Now, research at the Center For The Advancement Of Health suggests that a specific type of psychotherapy is effective in reducing these problematic and negative symptoms.
Check out this review in the current issue of The Cochrane Library and see the results from 25 studies with 1,305 participants. Forty-six percent of people assigned to CBT, a new program in psychotherapy, reduced their anxiety symptoms compared with just 14 percent who were treated in traditional ways.
This treatment involves helping people to become aware of their unhelpful or destructive patterns of thinking or reacting to stressors. The program then assists anxious people to modify or replace negative responses to stressors -- with more realistic or helpful ones.
Check out http://www.cochrane.org for more information, if you are looking for help or trying to assist people who limit and hold back groups because they come in carrying more anxiety than they offer inspiration or solutions that foster growth and progress.
What do you think?
» Run From Negativity from BrainBasedBusiness
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