The smarter way to overcome your anxiety

If you’ve been following the scientific research being published, you know that what we’ve been discovering about how the mind REALLY works when it experiences anxiety and fear has been staggering.

Advances in Functional Brain Imaging (fMRI) and other technologies now allow us to study precisely what happens in our brains when we’re exposed to something that makes us anxious, as well as ways that we can reverse the process and restore feelings of calm.

One of the significant things that research is showing is that your brain begins the process of becoming anxious far before you’re ever aware of it.  It’s a vicious cycle that occurs based on past experiences, unconscious mental training, and repetition of behaviors, and because by the time you even know it’s happening it’s well underway, it can VERY difficult to control.

However, there’s also some incredibly GOOD news hidden in those facts…

Published research has also shown that just as your brain can have a response that indicates stress at a level below that which you can easily control, you can also CALM your mind virtually automatically by using technologies and tactics that influence brain behavior on a far deeper level that can help you take back control from your anxiety.

Over the course of the past four years, I've been fortunate to be able to work with a talented and passionate team of professionals to take what science and research has shown can have a lasting impact on your stress and anxiety, and develop a comprehensive set of resources and tools for you to learn the skills and use the technologies on your own.

It’s called The Auto Calm System, and you can read all about it and the science behind it’s development here:

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The Auto Calm System was developed by am amazing team of experts and professionals and includes contributions from a licensed physician, an award winning neuropsychological researcher from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a Doctor of Clinical Psychology, former Psychology Professor from the University of Miami and researcher at the Cognitive Brain Research Unit University of Helsinki, Finland, and more.

Best of all, it was designed to be easy to use, so it works in YOUR busy life.  In fact, you can get started in only six minutes a day.

There’s a lot more to learn, and you can even get a demo of some of the technology that goes into it below:

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It’s time to finally use SCIENCE to help you overcome your anxiety.

How to Merge onto a Highway: How to Merge Into Traffic

Merging into traffic can be a tricky maneuver, especially in high traffic areas. Merging onto a highway requires hand eye coordination, depth perception and expert control of the vehicle. If you drive in heavily populated areas, you need to master the merge. These steps will help you merge safely.
Instructions
1. Notice the vehicles around you. Check your mirrors to be aware of nearby vehicles, especially those next to and behind you. If a vehicle is blocking your entrance to the highway, slow down so that you can try to merge in behind that vehicle.

2. Increase your speed. Before merging onto the highway, you need to be driving near highway speed. If the acceleration lane is long enough, accelerate to match the speed of the vehicles on the highway before you merge completely.

3. Use your turn signal. Put on your turn signal to let the drivers around you know your intentions. Seeing your signal, the drivers on the highway may adjust their lane position to allow you easier access to the highway.

4. Check your blind spot. Even though you have checked your mirrors, double check your blind spot by turning your head toward the highway and using your peripheral vision. Depending on the angle at which you are approaching the highway, your blind spot may be larger than normal.

5. Accelerate into the open space. When there is space for you on the highway, merge into the space, bringing your vehicle up to highway speed as quickly as possible.

How to Merge onto a Highway

Merging when you are on the highway is one of the number one causes of traffic accidents on major highways and roadways. Too often, I have seen near misses on highways where someone is trying to merge but the other lane of traffic will not let them in. Merging into traffic is almost like watching a dance. You have to get the steps down just right in order not to step on anyone's toes and ruin the dance move.

The thing to remember about merging is that when you are actively trying to merge into traffic on a highway, the people who are already traveling in a straight path on the highway have the right of way. Before you actually get onto the highway, depending on what kind of a highway you are trying to merge onto, there may be a stoplight or a sign indicating that you need to increase your speed to whatever the current speed is on the highway. This is all done in an effort to prevent unnecessary accidents from occurring.

When you are getting ready to merge, it is important to look over your shoulder and gauge where the next car is behind you. Be prepared to step on the gas and really crank it up in order to successfully accelerate to whatever the current speed is that is being traveled by most of the vehicles on the highway. If you are not quick enough or if you try to merge onto the highway without accelerating to the proper speed, then you run the risk of actually causing an accident. For instance, imagine that you are already on the highway and you are traveling in the far right lane. Suddenly a car tries to merge right in front of you. The current speed that is being traveled by most of the cars on the highway is roughly 70 miles per hour. However, the car that has unexpectedly merged in front of you is traveling at a speed of 50 miles per hour. As a result, you have to slam on your brakes hard, which causes the person behind you to have to slam on their brakes hard. If someone isn't paying attention behind you, they might end up rear ending you or trying to perform a last minute maneuver in order to get out of the way, thereby causing another accident in a different lane of traffic.

It is important to remember to keep your distance (even more so) on a highway versus a residential street. For residential driving, you are supposed to maintain at least two car lengths behind the person in front of you (which people seldom do). However, when you are on a highway, you are almost always traveling at a much higher rate of speed, which means that you need to increase your stopping time between you and the person in front of you. Therefore, you should adjust your distance to approximately four to five car lengths since it would hypothetically take you longer to stop in the event that the person in front of you were to slow down.