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Like a seed needing fertile soil, the old survival brain creates the conditions for anxiety

to sprout in your thinking brain chronic.

This is where anxiety is born.

Fear plus anxiety equal.

A complete fear plus uncertainty equal anxiety.

For example, how does it feel the first time that your kids want to walk to school or

a few blocks to a friend's house alone?

You carefully taught them safe street crossing, stranger danger and all the rest, but the

moment they are out of sight, what does your mind do?

It starts filling with all these worst case scenarios.

In the absence of past experience and or accurate information, you will find it really hard

to shut off the worry switch and calmly plan for the future.

Your thinking slash planning brain doesn't have an information switch, such that when

it runs low on information, it goes in the sleep mode until more information is available.

Like the opposite, anxiety urges you into action.

Go give me some information and screams in your ears, oddly from inside your head.

You find yourself trying to remember all of the five movies that you've seen so you

can secretly tell your kids to make sure they get to the destination safely without you.

Broadly speaking, it seems that more information should be a good thing, when you can get it.

After all, knowing more should help us be more in control, because information is power,

right?

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