Why we often get stuck in a trap of toxic productivity—and 4 techniques to help us break free, from DrDianaHill
It’s understandable that we get caught in overdoing.
Your biology is doing its job when you are in drive. Evolutionarily, your brain is designed to shift into drive mode when it thinks you don’t have enough resources and need to compete for scarce goods . Modern-day messaging floods our drive system with messages that we aren’t doing enough, don’t measure up, or are falling behind.In a recent post, I wrote about creative hopelessness—which is an ACT term for waking up to the reality that what we are doing isn’t working for us.
To unhook from toxic productivity, it helps to get a little hopeless about it. See that you are caught—and that your attempts to be “productive” are pulling you in directions you don’t want to head.When you feel like you aren’t doing enough, what do you do?The second step to unhooking from toxic productivity is toYour mind is producing thoughts all day long. These tend to hook folks into doing more.
If you are used to doing things to quell feelings that you aren’t enough or to please people, stopping this cycle is likely to have a rebound effect. In psychology, we call this “the extinction burst.” When you stop making yourself “feel better” by doing more, all the feelings that drove you to be productive will show up. Here are some common feelings that drive people to do too much.I feel anxious when I am still.I feel scared that I am going to be left behind.that I am not enough.
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