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Today, we're going to be talking about five ways to scientifically reduce your anxiety.

And this is super important because I have noticed, at least since 2020, it seems like anxiety

is on the rise and it's on the rise and people are starting to

get more anxious and it seems like children who kind of grew up with with

cell phones in their hands are a little bit more anxious and it just seems like to me and I might be the only

one but I don't think that I am that people are just getting more and more anxious and when you look at

anxiety if I were to walk up to each person listening to this podcast and say, what do you think anxiety is?

Everyone is going to say something different. And so it's really important for us to kind

of put a label on anxiety and a definition behind it before he starts to talk

about how to actually reduce it. So when you look at anxiety it's

a really, a, at its core, it is natural, and it's a really good thing.

It's one of the things that helps keep our species alive, right?

But it's often a adaptive... It's one of the things that helps keep our species alive, right?

But it's often a adaptive response to perceive threats or stressful situations.

And then what it does, it primes the body for action, which going and doing something something or to freeze and do nothing.

And so the important part of that definition is it is a natural and natural and often adaptive

response to perceived threats. Most of the time it's not actual real

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