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Reappraise anxiety as excitement rather than attempting to
Reappraise anxiety as excitement rather than attempting to calm down when facing performance situations, because excitement preserves the arousal state instead of fighting it.
Why This Is a Principle
This principle follows from The brain constructs emotions by predicting what bodily (emotions are constructed by predicting what bodily sensations mean) and Emotional experience can be mapped onto two independent (emotions map onto valence and arousal dimensions). It prescribes a specific reappraisal strategy that works with arousal rather than against it.