Coaching practices for Beilock Offload Anxiety

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• Right before the test or the big moment, my head is so jammed with what-ifs and dread that there’s no room left to actually think
• A worry barges in mid-task and screams that it’s urgent, that I have to deal with it this second
• I’ve got all these little things I do to get through anxious moments
• There’s a big thing coming up
• The moment the lights go out my brain starts running tomorrow’s to-do list on a loop

Practices that may help

1. Write about your worries before a high-stakes performance
   Offload performance anxiety by writing it out in full immediately before the event.
   Choking Under Pressure, Made Practical
2. Note the worry and defer it
   When a worry arises off-schedule, jot it down and postpone it to the window — don’t engage now.
   Worry Postponement, Made Practical
3. Map your safety-behavior inventory
   List every action you take to prevent feared outcomes in anxiety-provoking situations.
   Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical
4. Apply EFT to specific performance anxiety triggers
   EFT has the strongest self-guided evidence for test anxiety, public speaking, and sports performance stress.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
5. Offload cognitive load with a bedtime worry journal
   Write tomorrow’s to-do list and any intrusive worries before bed — externalized thoughts stop competing for attention at sleep onset.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
6. Debrief after performance without letting relief collapse the strategy
   After a successful performance, acknowledge the outcome honestly without abandoning the preparation habit that produced it.
   Defensive Pessimism, Made Practical
7. Havening to clear pre-performance anxiety
   Run a short havening sequence before a high-stakes event to lower physiological anxiety.
   Self-Havening: Calming the Nervous System Through Touch
8. Shift to task-focused attention under performance anxiety
   Redirect attention from self-monitoring and outcome worry to the specific process cues of the task at hand.
   Attentional Deployment, Made Practical
9. Reduce ought-self discrepancy through concrete action, not reassurance
   When anxiety comes from failing an obligation, the fastest relief is doing one specific thing that addresses the gap — not talking about why it’s okay that you haven’t.
   Self-Discrepancy Theory, Made Practical
10. De-activation Strategies for Over-Arousal
    Use targeted techniques to reduce arousal when anxiety or over-activation is undermining performance.
    The Yerkes-Dodson Law: Finding Your Optimal Performance Zone

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