Interesting, thank you. I don't think it's weird because SCMP has a pretty broad mandate... They often have lifestyle type articles, like any other big broadshe

Interesting, thank you. I don't think it's weird because SCMP has a pretty broad mandate... They often have lifestyle type articles, like any other big broadsheet. Maybe you just don't know that much about SCMP. The SCMP article just talks about doing simple things to relieve the parasympathetic nervous system effects of anxiety and, and suggest that if you can take the edge off like that, then having anxiety can actually be an advantage because, you can use the emotions of fear as a information source to discover areas of improvement in your life. I don't actually see any similarity with that link beyond the "facing difficult things can make your life better" aspect... But I'm not even sure that that link was saying that. The article includes some tips like deep breathing, exercise and eating well to relieve anxiety but also pay attention to it and reframe it as a source of information about things which you could look at as opportunities to create improvements in your life. “The problem is that mostly we just want our anxiety to go away as quickly and painlessly as possible. We ignore it. If we welcome anxiety as a teacher, it can help us to learn something about ourselves. Paradoxically, embracing our anxiety can be the quickest way to live a less anxious life,” she writes. She makes a distinction between bad anxiety, which is an excessive amount and may require medical intervention, and good anxiety which if approached correctly can be used as a transformative signal. If we approach anxiety as something to avoid, or dampen, we miss an opportunity to improve our lives. Listening to anxiety from a place of curiosity can guide us onto a path that leads to true well-being,” Suzuki says. To reap the benefits of anxiety, we need to control the amount of it we are feeling Over the paywall: https://archive.ph/Jgh4K https://archive.ph/Jgh4K