185: Is Anxiety A Crack In Your Protective Coating?
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2016
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Anxiety Coaches Podcast Gina takes us to Thailand with The Story of The Golden Buddha. Could anxiety be the crack in your protective coating, and the thing that sets your inner brilliance free?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches |
| 0:08.9 | Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:22.0 | Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. I'm your host and coach Gina Ryan, |
| 0:30.6 | and I am so happy to be with you again today as together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its natural peace and calm. |
| 0:43.0 | We are going to talk about the Golden Buddha Story. |
| 0:49.0 | It's a great story and it really is a wonderful way to reflect on our anxiety in our life and how we might |
| 0:58.0 | look at that as almost a gift at this point. And what better way to heal ourselves than to look at what |
| 1:06.3 | we're going through as a positive as a gift. So let's see let's get on with our story of the Golden Buddha. I first want to say that I know that this is a story that's in Jack Can Feels Chicken Soup for the Soul books and my friend |
| 1:27.3 | Alan Cohen tells it in the movie Finding Joe and that's where I first heard it from Alan actually I heard him tell it in person and so it was really cool to see him in that movie reading and telling the story of the Golden Buddha. |
| 1:46.7 | But I'm just going to read it to you and then I want to talk a little bit about how this relates to those of us who have had or do have anxiety. |
| 1:57.0 | The story of the Golden Buddha |
| 2:01.0 | Over 300 years ago, the Burmese army planned an attack to invade Thailand. |
| 2:07.0 | At the time the country was known as Siam. |
| 2:10.0 | The Siamese monks were in possession of the most amazing Buddha statue. |
| 2:17.0 | The statue is over 10 feet tall and weighs in excess of 2.5 tons. |
| 2:25.0 | It's made of solid gold and is valued today at $200 million. |
| 2:31.0 | The monks were determined to protect the shrine that meant so much to them. |
| 2:38.0 | While it was priceless to them for reasons that transcend money, they knew that the Burmese would stop it nothing to steal the |
| 2:45.3 | statue because of its tremendous monetary value. They covered the golden Buddha with 12 inches of clay knowing that the warriors would totally ignore it and think it was worthless |
| 3:00.9 | Sadly the monks were slaughtered in the invasion and the secret of the golden Buddha |
| 3:06.2 | stayed hidden for two centuries. |
| 3:09.9 | The Buddha itself, though, remained safe. In the mid-50s, a monastery was to be relocated to make |
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