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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. I'm your host and coach

Gina Ryan 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. We're going to be talking about rigid thinking and

anxiety. All right let's get on with today's topic.

Being rigid.

I'm sort of going on the heels of the last podcast, which was also about some of our thinking, right?

Patterns and habits.

So today I wanted to talk specifically about the rigid thought

pattern.

You know, it can also be called Black and White thinking.

We've talked about that in other podcasts, but it deserves to be talked about again and again because this is a tough spot.

This is kind of the entry way to a lot of anxious feelings.

So let's get talking about it.

What I am talking about with rigid thought patterns

and black and white thinking is the idea of being unbending in your attitudes and your thoughts,

being inflexible, kind of being stuck in right or wrong thinking, that's black or white,

everything has, it has to be clear, either it's clearly right or clearly wrong. And often what that is is really

judging. It's not so much that an opinion, it's more of a judgment because we don't leave

any room or any space for other thoughts or ideas to come in.

And this is how it gets us into trouble because it is a judgment.

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