节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-01-25
难易度:High
关键字:crabby, facilitate, after the fact, starting point, cognitive
(Music).
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide.
Thanks for taking time out of your busy day to study English with us.
My name is Steve.
And my name is Kaylah.
A trap is something that's difficult to escape from.
It's something that catches you by surprise.
Right now, some of you are in a trap, a worry trap.
Hmm. At home, at school or at work, you worry and stress about things so much
that it's affecting your physical and emotional health.
Well, if this describes you, Studio Classroom wants to help.
Our lesson today has two goals: First, to help you recognize worry traps so you
can avoid falling into them.
And second, if you're already in one, how to escape from that trap?
OK. Please, everyone, open your magazines to page 45 and follow along as we read
more tips that will help us break the pattern of worry.
Avoid the Worry Trap at Work.
You'll then want to plan ways to catch yourself in this cycle.
Know your cognitive, physical and emotional cues.
For example, if you know that you start getting crabby or get a stomach ache
when you start to worry,
watch for those feelings so you can see if you're falling into worry.
Finally, develop a set of tools to facilitate breaking the habit.
If you're worrying prior to an event, get in the habit of asking yourself,
"What's happening with this right now?" If it isn't posing a problem then,
choose to think about other things.
This is possible, but it does take discipline.
Hello, friends.
Thank you for joining us.
My name is Ryan.
And my name is Kaylah.
Now, are you worried?
We've been talking about worrying at work.
I hope you are finding some good tips to help you not worry.
Exactly. We're continuing this article today trying to help you find ways that
you might worry at work and avoid the worry trap.
That's right.
This trap that catches you, it holds you tight, doesn't let you go, and it ruins
your life.
So we're trying to get out of that trap.
OK. Now before yesterday,
we talked about how you want to find the different patterns of things that cause
you to worry and also things that help you not to worry,
and try and figure out what those are.
We had some suggestions of some things that cause us to worry.
Certain meetings or projects, or even some people that we meet at work that
cause us to worry.
But we never had any suggestions of things that help us not worry, of positive
things.
So Ryan, what do you do at work that helps you stay positive?
Oh well, I try not to think, first of all, about any negative things that might
have happened in the past.
And I try to focus on one thing at a time.
That way, I'm not worried about the many, many things I have to do.
That's... that's a good idea to focus on one thing at a time so you don't get
too overwhelmed to stress.
If you're stressed, your worry just keeps going up.
All right. Now you'll want to plan ways to catch yourself in the worrying cycle.
Now you want to make sure you're catching yourself, which means you see the
patterns that you're making.
And we know a cycle is the continuation of it over and over again.
So hopefully you can catch it and not let it continue.
Right.
Know your cognitive, physical and emotional cues.
Now if we're talking about "cues," that means something that allows you to see
what is happening.
Something that is "cognitive" is connected to your thinking process: what you
think about, how you process different things in your mind.
So are there things that you think about that cause you to start worrying?
Well, we got some examples here, Kaylah.
Um, if you know that you start getting crabby or you get a stomach ache when you
start to worry,
then watch for those feelings so that you can see if you're falling into worry.
OK. So we talked about different ways, different cues to be aware that we're
headed into worrying.
Now a stomach ache or a headache, those would be physical cues.
I know sometimes if you're really worried, you start to sweat a lot.
That's another one that can happen to you.
And that causes you to stress, so watch for those things.
Exactly, yeah.
And actually, what happens to me is I start to get crabby when I am worrying.
And when you're "crabby," that means you're easily upset.
It doesn't take much for people to make you feel angry, and you might be
complaining.
I get sad as I start to worry.
So if I feel myself getting very sad, I can take a step back and help myself
through that.
"Finally," finally we're at our next suggestion.
All right. Develop a set of tools to facilitate breaking the habit of worry.
Now you want to make sure you've got tools to "facilitate." What does that mean?
When you "facilitate" something, that means you make it possible or even easier.
So if I facilitate a discussion with Ryan, that means I start, I make the
conversation possible.
OK. So find tools to help you break the habit of worry.
And if you are worrying prior to an event, get in the habit of asking yourself:
What's happening with this right now?
So as you're going into something, if you feel your worry and stress going up,
pause.
Take a moment and ask yourself this question.
"What's happening right now?" Exactly.
So you want to make that a habit, continually do it.
Ask yourself what's going on.
And that way you're not worrying about everything.
Well, if it isn't posing a problem then, choose to think about other things.
Think about positive things and encouraging things.
That's right.
This is possible, but it does take discipline.
It's possible to control your worry and ask yourself this question.
But Kaylah, it takes discipline.
That's right.
Discipline, Ryan, is a hard thing to learn.
And that is working towards fixing certain things in your life.
OK. Now we're going to go to the Chat Room.
So how is your friend Tony doing?
Well, he seems to be doing much better.
I talked with him this morning, and he seems determined to pick himself back up
after his bad interview.
Hmm. That sounds like a good thing.
But what do you mean by "pick himself back up"?
Well, when someone makes a mistake or fails at something, people frequently
compare it to falling down.
So they call learning from your mistakes and trying again getting back up or
picking yourself back up.
Hmm. Can you give me an example of how someone would use that?
Sure.
People who start their own businesses often fail several times.
But if they keep picking themselves up, they eventually succeed.
I've heard people talk about trying to quit smoking and saying that it's easy to
fall back into the habit.
Yes, that's a similar usage.
Starting a bad habit can be called falling into the habit.
And when you're going back to a habit you had earlier, you can call it falling
back into the habit.
So could I say that during the holidays, I fell into the habit of eating too
much?
Yes, you could.
And I think lots of people do that.
By the way, have you ever heard the idiom, to fall off the wagon?
No, I don't think I have.
Well, when someone is trying to change their lifestyle like by quitting drinking
or going on a diet, if they fail, you can say that they fell off the wagon.
Hmm, I think a lot of my friends are falling off the wagon right now.
They all started dieting for the new year, but I think most of them have given
up.
That does happen a lot.
But as you know, I'm not a big fan of diets.
I'm thinking of going out for pizza tonight.
Would you like to join me, Ken?
Sure! That sounds like a plan.