#466 The Worry Trap (How to Free Yourself from Anxiety)
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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The Worry Trap (How to Free Yourself from Anxiety)
The worry trap is a cunning beast, always lurking for its next victim. No matter how big or small your worries, it can twist them into an endless loop, magnifying anxieties and casting sunshine into shadow. Just like a hungry magpie, it collects trinkets of trouble, convincing you that every rustle in the bushes is a predator. So, how do we escape its clutches? We must learn to be mindful of its whispers, untangle ourselves from its barbed wires, and step into the present moment, where worry loses its grip and joy can finally bloom.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. When I was an undergraduate university I had this really good senior class where we talked |
| 0:16.9 | about issues from around the world. One of the books we read shared something that I had never thought about. |
| 0:24.5 | It was about people that had a lot of money. |
| 0:27.2 | Now I did not come from a lot of money. |
| 0:29.1 | I did not have a lot of money. |
| 0:30.8 | So that world was fairly alien to me. I didn't know much about people |
| 0:34.7 | that were wealthy. I mean besides what you read and saw on the news. But the |
| 0:39.7 | book said that when people amassed a lot of money, I was under the impression as I think a lot of other people are even to this day |
| 0:47.1 | That everything's great all your financial worries go away |
| 0:51.4 | But what the author said was that wasn't true. He did a lot of |
| 0:54.5 | research on interviewing very wealthy people and this is what he found that |
| 1:00.3 | people once they amassed a lot of money, |
| 1:03.0 | began to worry about losing a lot of money. |
| 1:06.0 | Instead of being free and carefree and not worrying about money anymore, |
| 1:10.0 | now they worried about losing the money that they had. |
| 1:13.0 | I had been under the impression that people that had a lot of money |
| 1:16.0 | had no worries about money. |
| 1:18.0 | But what he said made a lot of sense. |
| 1:20.0 | And now that I've lived a few more years since my university years I've definitely |
| 1:24.6 | discovered what he said is true. But what I also learned is worry doesn't have to be |
| 1:30.8 | just about money, it can be about so many different things. |
| 1:35.4 | And unfortunately, our minds, if we're not careful, can be very good at getting caught at the worried |
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