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

And now for today's podcast, wise words on wisdom for anxiety. You know I had I earmarked some things that come

across my desk and this was an email actually that I got from Martha Beck. If you don't know Martha Beck, I highly suggest you check her out.

She's an amazing author. She's Harvard trained. She's an amazing beautiful sense of humor. She's been a regular contributor for Oprah's magazine. I know for many years years but she's written some really great

books and so I've been on her mailing list for many many years and I got this one

email that I like I said I earmarked it so that we could kind of talk about this a little bit and

what she was talking about in the email was wisdom and how we feel our wisdom how do we know what are what is our

wise mind as we call it here right let's get started with that because it oh the

caveat here is that we talk about these things in because the

the caveat here is that we talk about these things in the regular world

and everybody the general public

but unless you have anxiety you kind of don't know

what that feeling is to be confused with, is this my wise mind? Is this my anxious mind? Am I, which thing should I do? I feel them both equally intensely or I feel them they seem to weigh out the same

It can get very muddled So I loved this little email from Rutherford and I want to share some of it with you.

So she starts out with wisdom is sensory, not verbal. She says, while the voice of

social conditioning shows up as a stream of thoughts in your head, wisdom often appears

as emotions or physical sensations in the body. In fact, the emotional centers of the brain, along with the

elaborate bundle of nerves in your belly, so-called gut brain, have been evolving far longer than language, and that system, more than logic,

is exquisitely attuned to helping you navigate your way through life. So you're wondering whether a choice is

wise or not, don't search your mind for a rational argument. Instead, hold each option in your attention and then feel the effect on your

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