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The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

241: Is Your Imagination Feeding Your Anxiety?

The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

Gina Ryan

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Join in as coach Gina takes a new look at imagination, worry and how they feed into your anxiety. Quote: Worry is a misuse of the imagination. -Steve Chandler Links/resources mentioned in the episode http://www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial Anxiety Group Coaching Membership: http://www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/group-coaching Grab a book of your choice on audio for FREE by going to: http://www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches

0:09.3

Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life.

0:20.0

Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

0:27.0

Now let's get into the show.

0:30.0

Is your imagination feeding your anxiety?

0:37.0

Oh, imagination.

0:40.0

Oh, imagination. Oh, people with anxiety have amazing imaginations.

0:46.2

The creativity in those minds is awesome.

0:51.0

The problem is sometimes it gets turned against us.

0:55.0

So what is this thing?

0:58.0

What is this imagination?

1:00.0

Where does worry come in? I wanted to talk about worry because

1:07.8

Where he comes out of our imagination. I just didn't know quite know where I wanted to begin this, but the worry comes out of the imagination.

1:16.4

And worry is not particularly a bad thing.

1:18.7

I almost was going to call this podcast the lighter side of worry or something but I don't want to encourage

1:24.6

anybody to worry anymore it seems to come quite naturally to most of us so

1:29.2

worry is a tool for survival.

1:34.0

Again, most things that go awry started as a decent thing,

1:40.0

as a way of keeping us alive or safe.

1:44.2

And worry is one of those things.

1:46.6

It's a tool for survival.

1:48.4

It is why we are who we are on this planet today't We don't run faster than a lot of things.

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