Recruiting EQ E108: The Power of the Unconscious in Executive Coaching

That definitely answers my question.

In fact, I love that you gave sort of a bit of a breakdown of it.

And I think that...

So for me, I feel that of all the things that you just said right now, there's even like a... an apprehension on some people's parts who are busy, successful, senior executives, salespeople, whatever, you know what I mean? Like who are managers, whatever, operating at a high level.

There's a reticence to get out of that hypervigilant brain at all.

Like they don't

want to do it.

They feel like if they let their guard down for one second, everything, the whole world will fall apart.

Do you feel that as well? That there's a resistance on some people's parts to want to even put that down for a second?

I even have that command sometimes from my clients.

So they say, Jenny Lynn, okay, I want to let go of some of my anxiety symptoms because I don't work on the roots of anxiety, but I work on symptoms.

So I want to get rid of those symptoms, but...

Don't let me get rid of my anxiety because my anxiety is what made me successful.

And if I lose it, if I lose it, I will lose my edge.

Interesting.

So it's very interesting.

So I don't argue with clients.

Never.

But we do the demonstration.

So when we do it, we start to work on the behaviors, on the symptoms.

And as the symptoms are lowered.

and people start to see what are the beliefs, what are the thoughts that lead them to think that this anxiety is their recipe for success.

Once they see that this is false, that they can absolutely be successful sometimes, even more when they're focused without the symptoms of anxiety, where they can go and present in front of a group without having this big shake inside, but they can be grounded and solid and clear-minded.

Because what they start to realize is those symptoms of anxiety kind of creates clutter at the same time.

Yes.