Coaching practices for Eft Performance Anxiety

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

• There’s a big thing coming up
• 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
• The moment I’m up there performing, my head fills with "how do I look, am I blowing this, what are they thinking"
• Right before anything that matters my heart pounds and my hands shake, and I read all of it as proof I’m not ready and about to fall apart
• Right before I go on, my heart’s pounding, my hands are shaking, my mind’s gone tunnel-narrow and blank

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Recalibrate arousal as readiness, not threat
   Reinterpret pre-performance anxiety as energy and readiness rather than evidence of inadequacy.
   Mastery Experiences
5. 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
6. Reappraise physiological arousal as activation, not anxiety
   Tell yourself "I’m excited" rather than "I’m nervous" — the physiology is identical; the label changes performance.
   The Clutch State: Performing Under Pressure
7. Use paradoxical intention for performance anxiety
   Before a performance, commit to performing as badly as possible — notice what happens to the anxiety.
   Logotherapy: Paradoxical Intention
8. Reframe high-stakes moments as opportunities to demonstrate capability
   Treat pressure as validation that the performance matters — which is exactly why you prepared for it.
   The Clutch State: Performing Under Pressure
9. Reappraise anxiety as excitement before high-stakes performance
   Tell yourself "I’m excited" rather than "I’m nervous" — the physiology is the same, the performance effect is not.
   Choking Under Pressure, Made Practical
10. Reinterpret physiological arousal as readiness, not threat
    Anxiety before a challenging task is physiologically identical to excitement — the label you apply determines whether it helps or hurts.
    Social Cognitive Theory

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