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

Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

On today's show, I have a very special guest, someone who is very near and dear to my heart and I know that you guys are going to be familiar because I talk about Sharon Salzburg quite often here and her way of meditation and you know how much we talk about meta and

mindfulness and loving kindness meditation here so I've got Sharon Salzburg with me. I want to tell you just a little bit about her before we get talking.

Sharon Salzburg is a central figure in the field of meditation, a world-renowned teacher and New York Times best-selling author.

She has played a crucial role in bringing meditation and mindfulness

practices to the West and into mainstream culture since

1974 when she first began teaching.

She is the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barry, Massachusetts and the author of 10 books, including New York Times Best Seller Real Happiness, Her Seminole Work, Loving Kindness, and Real Love

Her latest release. A claim for her humorous down-to-earth teaching style, Sharon offers a secular modern approach to

Buddhist teachings, making them instantly accessible. She is a regular columnist for On Being, a contributor to Huffington Post, and the host of her

own podcast, The Meta Hour.

For more information, visit Sharon Salzburg.com.

Sharon, welcome to the show.

I'm thrilled to have you.

Thank you so much.

Now, everybody here that is listening has a little deal with anxiety stress all that good kind of stuff and so I wondered if you had a personal story around that before we got into all the wonderful stuff you do professionally for, or I know your whole life is around meditation, but personal story around anxiety at all?

Yeah, well, I usually call it fear when I'm telling the story, you know.

And I say, as it's true, that I feel like I learned a lot about my own patterns of fear just by sitting and being with it, which of course is a very hard thing to do, but it's almost at the heart of the meditative process, you know, be able to sit with and look into whatever you're experiencing.

And so I did that with fear and what I saw, was very interesting was that despite the world's

pronouncement which is also true that we're afraid of the unknown I saw I'm not that afraid of the

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