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Why Do You Confuse Excitement with Anxiety?

You often confuse excitement with anxiety because anxiety has become a more common reference point in your lives. For many, anxiety is a familiar feeling—it’s something you’ve experienced countless times. Your minds are conditioned to interpret the fluttering stomach, the racing heart, and the sweaty palms as anxiety, simply because that’s what you have known most frequently.

Imagine someone who has been anxious about social situations for most of their life. Even if they feel excited about meeting new people or attending an event, their brain might automatically label the feeling as anxiety. This is not because the situation is actually threatening but because their brain is using the most familiar reference point. They are accustomed to associating those physical sensations with fear or stress, so they default to that interpretation.

But here’s the empowering truth: you can retrain your mind to interpret these feelings differently.

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