Emily Nagoski PhD
Performance anxiety happens when there’s some standard against which you were comparing yourself.
Change your relationship with those standards and those expectations to overcome performance anxiety do this with mindfulness practice.
Turn your attention to the pleasure happening in your body and your partner’s .
When your attention slides into anxiousness, notice the feelings and thoughts, say hello to them, let them know you’re busy paying attention to pleasure.
Set them aside for the time being and return your attention to pleasure.
Repeat this again and again and again
In nonjudgmental, centered awareness, neutrally noticing what’s happening in the here and now -even if it is unpleasant.
Your brain transfers the skill of noticing an uncomfortable physical sensation to neutrally noticing an uncomfortable emotional sensation.
Step outside the uncomfortable feelings, notice them rather than panicking, ignoring or denying.
Emily Nagoski PhD
Performance anxiety happens when there’s some standard against which you were comparing yourself.
Change your relationship with those standards and those expectations to overcome performance anxiety do this with mindfulness practice.
Turn your attention to the pleasure happening in your body and your partner’s .
When your attention slides into anxiousness, notice the feelings and thoughts, say hello to them, let them know you’re busy paying attention to pleasure.
Set them aside for the time being and return your attention to pleasure.
Repeat this again and again and again
In nonjudgmental, centered awareness, neutrally noticing what’s happening in the here and now -even if it is unpleasant.
Your brain transfers the skill of noticing an uncomfortable physical sensation to neutrally noticing an uncomfortable emotional sensation.
Step outside the uncomfortable feelings, notice them rather than panicking, ignoring or denying.
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