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Introduction Chapter 01 - A Look at Your Fight or Flight Response The problem with the fight or flight response Chapter 02 - What are neurotransmitters? What is a flow state? How Neurotransmitters Work Chapter 03 - Food and Other Medications to Keep Calm How we already manipulate our neurotransmitters Anxiolytics Other substances that affect your neurotransmitters Chapter 04 - Managing Panic Attacks and Anxiety Symptoms of panic attack What is a normal heart rate during a panic attack? Managing anxiety and panic attacks How to combat anxiety and panic attacks by controlling your thoughts and Emotions The AWARE technique for panic attacks Exposure therapy Chapter 05 - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy explained Behaviorism and a brief history of psychology lesson Introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Cognitive behavioral therapy techniques Consciousness Recording thoughts Challenging thinking Hypothesis testing How to be socially courageous with hypothesis testing Chapter 06 - How Can Meditation Help? Mindfulness meditation Transcendental meditation Some tips and suggestions Chapter 07 - Breathing Techniques and Visualizations Abdominal breathing Other Breathing Methods and Visualizations Chapter 08 - Power Positions, Face Feedback, Priming and Grounding Power positions Facial feedback Priming Grounding Chapter 09 - Cognitive Biases - Making Better Decisions Gambler's fallacy Risk aversion Confirmation bias Functional fixation Retrospective bias Contrast effect Chapter 10: Conclusion The goal is not to completely eliminate stress or anxiety. This is something that we must make clear from the beginning. Believe it or not, stress and anxiety are useful emotions. Both put the body in a physiological state of increased arousal, attention and awareness and can even increase physical strength and power. When you are stressed, you are essentially 'on the run' and this makes you better at completing physical tasks or reacting on the spot. Psychologists have also shown that stress can be a positive motivating force in the right circumstances. Stress is what forces us to study for exams and what motivates us to save money as a contingency fund. Specifically, this type of stress is known as 'eustress' and it is a very useful phenomenon. The problem is that many of us have no control over when we get stressed or when we have anxiety. This, in turn, leads us to feel those emotions in maladaptive situations.............