The psychologist explained how to make anxiety useful

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Anxious feelings are useful if not to block them, but to be able to work with them, says Tracy Dennis-Tiwari, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the City University of New York. The psychologist gave some tips on how to properly deal with your emotions.

Anxiety encourages us to hope and be more persistent in achieving goals, says Tracy Dennis-Tiwari in her article on the Next Big Idea Club. This feeling sharpens our focus, helps us overcome obstacles, motivates us to be more sociable, and promotes creativity.

New research shows that anxious people socialize more, and communication is the best way to deal with stress. In addition, such people have an increased ability to solve problems, their brain is activated and is able to generate more ideas and options for solving tasks.

The problem of anxiety is not in it as such, the psychologist notes, but in what we think this feeling is negative and we try to suppress it. Treating anxiety like a disease prevents us from using this feeling for our own good.