195 // Embracing Uncertainty

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to episode 195 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, you'll learn more about how to embrace uncertainty and feel less overwhelmed by it.

You'll hear about an interesting study that found people tend to feel more stressed by uncertainty than when they know something bad will happen. You can learn more about this study here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2016/mar/uncertainty-can-cause-more-stress-inevitable-pain

In this episode, you'll discover 3 tips which can help you cope with uncertainty, including:

Tip 1: Change your perception of uncertainty

Tip 2: Trust yourself that you can handle any outcome

Tip 3: Be self-compassionate. You can learn more about this in episode 153 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

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Thank you so much for listening and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.
0:07.6	I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey
0:12.2	and inspire you to create your own.
0:14.8	Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,
0:19.6	from my personal experiences to useful tools and different
0:23.5	mindful techniques.
0:31.5	Hello and welcome to episode 195 of the Mindful Kind podcast about embracing uncertainty.
0:39.3	Thank you to Blinkist for supporting the Mindful Kind podcast.
0:42.9	Blinkist is an incredible app which shares the key takeaways from thousands of
0:47.5	nonfiction books so you can learn on the go.
0:50.7	Blinkist is offering my listeners a seven-day free trial at Blinkist.com forward slash the mindful kind.
0:57.2	That's blinkist.com forward slash the mindful kind.
1:00.9	I'm really excited about this episode because uncertainty is something we all deal with throughout
1:05.9	life and personally I've found it can be really challenging.
1:10.1	I like feeling as though I know what will
1:12.2	happen and I enjoy making plans that actually work out. It's so hard sometimes to be okay with
1:19.4	uncertainty and to let things unfold in their own time. I've been talking with a few different
1:25.0	people lately and this experience of being challenged by
1:29.1	uncertainty has been a common theme in those conversations. So I'd really like to talk more about
1:35.1	how we can actually embrace uncertainty and feel less overwhelmed by it. During these conversations,
1:42.0	I started to wonder why uncertainty is stressful.
1:45.9	Why do we find it so difficult to accept that we don't have all the answers all the time?
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