Impatience leads to anxiety!

We all have been impatient at some point in our lives and we keep being impatient when we await something important. Being impatient is a sign of weakness for it questions our own confidence. For example, if we remember that most of us used to be impatient before our exam results. Why were we so impatient when we already knew that we had given our exams and the results would not be very different than what we wrote. Still we kept pestering and burdening ourselves with unwanted thoughts about the result. What causes this impatience? Ever wondered why do we become so vulnerable before critical moments? Let us have a brief understanding on this.

Critical moments or important moments in our life are those that define either success or failure for us. These moments are categorically stored by our brains in the long-term memory. Hence, these critical moments carry the weightage and importance for our brain. This is the time when our brain needs a boost from an emotion that can handle the pressure of the so-called result and that's when anxiety emotion takes over our brain. Once anxiety takes over our brain, it becomes vary of all possible outcomes from positive to negative. Thinking about the positive outcome, we feel safe and secure; whereas thinking about the negative outcome, we start feeling panicked. Our brain starts preparing us for all sorts of results. However, while doing this it packs our brain with all possibilities for all sorts of results, whereas the result will only be one. This results in excessive load on the brain and may even give anxiety to individuals. Therefore, it is important to keep a tab on our thoughts. Don't let the unnecessary thoughts drift you away from reality. Train your mind to remain calm in the tense situations so that you don't get carried away in the panic state. Yoga and focus techniques might help you in achieving this. Hope this read helps you understand this correlation :)