Do you ever just wake up and feel anxious or worried or sad or afraid?

Yeah, it happens to all of us. I don't care how much of this work you do. It is part of the human experience. Life is about

contrast. You can't appreciate happiness if you don't experience sadness, right? However, a lot of times we think that the reason why we feel the way we feel is because of what's happening in the outside world.

You know, you hear something on the news and all of a sudden you start thinking thoughts that create anxiety or worry. But it's your thinking

that's creating the anxiety and worry. And so the other day, in fact it was

like three four days ago, I started having this intense feeling of anxiety.

And I just watched myself spiral for about six hours and it was so fascinating because anxiety is one of

those emotions that I'm very familiar with. I used to have a lot of anxiety and I'm still prone to anxiety. In fact, my

dear friend she says, I feel like you function well on anxiety just because it's so

familiar. But the thing is for me today and this is why I wanted to share today's

podcast with you is that I know I'm the one creating it. Whereas I used to think that the world was creating my anxiety.

You know, I'd turn on the news and hear something

and I would just start feeling anxious and I would really think

it's because of what's happening in the outside world.

And the problem with that is we can't

control the outside world but we try to right we want to control it because we don't want to

feel anxious all of the time.

But you can't control the world.

I have tried.

Trust me, if it could be done, I would have figured it out by now.

But you can't.

You can't control people or all of the circumstances.

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