January 27, 2009This Week in the World ~ Transforming anxiety into energy
Transforming Anxiety into Energy
Last week I had the pleasure of seeing a friend I hadn’t seen in years. Sue’s personal and professional lives are unstable these days, and yet she seemed less anxious and more centered than ever before. She credits her recent discovery of yoga for her new found balance.
If I wasn’t already practicing yoga, seeing Sue would be enough to get me to start. But yoga has been a part of my routine for over 30 years. I do have a new addition, however. I found a delightful new way to transform anxiety into energy.
I wanted some kind of free-form exercise, and when Barbara Mc Nichol mentioned NIA dance exercise in her Word Tripper newsletter, I decided to try it. I ordered NIA videos and the fun started as soon as the videos did. Then I added some NIA music CDs to improvise.
I haven’t quite reached the level of joyful abandon the dancers in the videos do, but I’m getting there. When I start out anxious, I end up energized. You can play too. I offer the NIA DVDs and CDs in my SpeakStrong in love store. Check it out.
Word Trippers transform your verbal anxiety
Barbara McNichol has a new eBook called Word Trippers – and for my Boomer readers: no, it’s not a book about words you can trip out on. It’s words that trip the majority of people up and how to know which word to use in any situation. Further? Or Farther? Some ESL groups use PowerPhrases in their classes – and this would be a great addition for the second language students as well as native English speakers. Will it transform writing anxiety into energy? At the very least, it will take the anxiety out of finding the appropriate word.
Everywhere I look I see anxiety…and energy. Coming soon – SpeakStrong GPS Interactive
My son got laid off from the job of his dreams last week. He’s a master web developer. He grieved for a few days and is now energized about all the prospects for new beginnings. I’m impressed. My process takes me longer than that. (And he doesn’t even do NIA…)
One of his prospects is to help me develop a new project – SpeakStrong GPS Interactive. Guided Processing Systems for the conversations you need to have. Or that’s the working title. I look forward to your feedback. It will be a subscription site with interactive processes along the lines of my PowerPhrase Tutorial. Stay tuned, and share your thoughts.
Two new articles about transforming interpersonal anxiety into energy
I talk about SpeakStrong GPS more here in my article Get over it? Or get into it? The Great Processing Debate. It’s the beginning of an eBook, but I’m offering it now as an article to invite your input. I also have a new article called Insploration Expedition. I’m still developing my brand and want to know what you think.
The Brand Aid process can transform life purpose anxiety into energy
I didn’t get a lot of comments about my Brand Aid article, but the ones I did get were very enthusiastic. I received a call from a minister who insists I teach the process to her ministerial students and that I work it into a life-purpose book. (Insists is a strong word – I use it advisedly.) In her ministry she talks to many people who question whether they’re doing what they came here to do. She says the Brand Aid process will give them the clarity they seek. I will heed her call. Until then, read the article if you haven’t already. It’s written for speakers and trainers but every step applies to business and personal brands.
The Brand Aid process will be one of the processing systems included in SpeakStrong GPS Interactive.
Seeing endings as beginnings transforms anxiety into energy
My All Sides of the Moon song and article talks about cycles and how all endings are also beginnings. I have a new reader discussion/contest about that in the next section of this newsletter.
Transforming Anxiety into Energy: a free eBook from Wendy Mack
Transforming anxiety into energy is a great concept, isn’t it? I use it here with permission from my friend and colleague Wendy Mack. It’s the title of her new free eBook about how leaders can communicate during change to energize their work force. There’s an interview and download of her book Transforming Anxiety into Energy eBook: How to prevent panic and promote productivity in turbulent times here. If you get half the mileage out of it I already have, it’s well worth reviewing. Wendy is a brilliant thinker, teacher and writer.
Reader discussion submission from last week are below. Thanks for your input.
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This is a fun article for me because I love the aubtle nuances of words.
“Anxiety” IS “energy” in my world, it is simply disjointed, disorganized energy.
My tradition is one inwhich focusing energy into a “cone” and then directing it out into the Universe is commonplace, so every time I find myself riddled with anxious energy, I sit down, focus all the shattered, scattered energetic pieces into a nice, neat little energy-ball. What I do with the energy-ball depends upon what kind of energy I need. Generally when I’m anxious, the type of energy I need is grounding and centering. I do a meditative exercise to ground, then I follow it with fifteen minutes of energetic dance to center. I keep my goal in mind but I don’t “sweat” over it.
That balances me and stirs the disjointed anxiety into a focused energy that I may use to further improve my day.
In my world, this is how I’d describe your son’s “SpeakStrong GPS Interactive” – a churning of anxious energy into productive energy.
I’d even go one step further and say that without stepping into the midst of anxious energy, many of our pro-active, creative-inspiring, forward-movement achievements wouldn’t have the fertilizer to start growing.
Good luck to your son! I can hardly wait to see how the GPS system works.
Comment by kym — January 29, 2009 @ 7:39 am