135 // Travel Anxiety and Mindfulness
The Mindful Kind
Rachael Kable
4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2018
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to episode 135 of The Mindful Kind podcast.
In this episode, you'll discover more about travel anxiety and how to manage it using some simple mindfulness tips and helpful strategies.
Mindfulness Tips:
- Use a physical anchor to help you focus on the present moment and slow anxious thoughts
- Tune into your senses by noticing 5 things you can see, hear and feel
- Stretch your body to relieve tension
More helpful strategies...
- View your anxiety as excitement
- Balance out negative thoughts with positive, specific thoughts about your trip
Thank you for listening and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey |
| 0:12.3 | and inspire you to create your own. |
| 0:14.9 | Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness, |
| 0:19.7 | from my personal experiences to useful tools and different |
| 0:23.6 | mindful techniques. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 135 of the Mindful Kind podcast. |
| 0:36.6 | In this episode, I want to talk about mindfulness and travel anxiety. |
| 0:41.9 | I recently heard from a friend of mine who is feeling nervous about an upcoming trip |
| 0:46.0 | and she was wondering if I might have some tips to share about managing travel anxiety |
| 0:50.2 | and being more mindful. |
| 0:52.1 | First of all, I thought I'd talk about one of my own earliest experiences |
| 0:55.7 | with going on an overseas trip. I was in high school and my teacher organized a school trip to |
| 1:02.2 | Malaysia. I think there were maybe 20 or so students going all together, including me, so it was an |
| 1:08.0 | awesome little group, but I was so nervous about the whole thing. |
| 1:12.9 | In the lead up to the trip, I had this growing sense of dread about what could go wrong. |
| 1:18.5 | What if I got motion sick in front of everyone? |
| 1:21.2 | What if I missed home too much? |
| 1:23.0 | What if I got bitten by a snake? |
| 1:25.0 | A lot of my fears always revolve around getting bitten by snakes. |
| 1:28.6 | What if I got lost? What if I didn't have enough money? What if we got stranded somewhere? |
| 1:34.1 | If you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you might know I can be a bit of an |
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