620: Letting Go As A Way To Clear Out Stress And Anxiety
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses using the technique of letting go to help clear anxiety. Letting go of resentment, fear and negative people are each touched on. A number of techniques for setting boundaries are included.
Links mentioned in today's episode:
Radical Acceptance
https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/611-radical-acceptance-for-living-with-more-peace
Loving Kindness (Metta)
https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/474-classic-acp-loving-kindness-meditation
Boundaries
https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/474-classic-acp-loving-kindness-meditation
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches |
| 0:09.3 | Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:22.0 | Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I'm talking about |
| 0:30.4 | letting go and how that can actually be a way to help you clear out extra stress and anxiety. |
| 0:40.0 | Moving forward means letting go of the past. |
| 0:43.7 | I like to think about it as like when we are little kids |
| 0:47.8 | and we're on those monkey bars |
| 0:50.3 | and we're trying to one hand on them |
| 0:54.0 | and we have one hand on one rung and one hand on the next one |
| 0:59.0 | and we want to go forward. |
| 1:01.0 | What we need to do is let go of that firsthand, that one that's in |
| 1:06.1 | the back. We have to let go of the past to move forward. Now we can be grateful for what we've learned and what we've gained from the past. |
| 1:17.0 | Our past is part of us. |
| 1:19.0 | However, staying in it and being overly concerned with it and wishing it to change or being |
| 1:28.9 | resentful of it for many years will stunt our personal growth and it will keep us stressed and the |
| 1:38.9 | stress will continue to fuel our anxiety and we will not be able to access our deepest |
| 1:46.8 | peace and calm. There are many things that we can move on from. In order to best glide forward or to reach |
| 1:57.8 | for that next rung on the monkey bars and reach new heights of happiness and success, there are probably a lot of things that |
| 2:07.0 | we need to consider that we need to move on from. |
| 2:10.0 | Are there people to forgive? |
| 2:12.7 | Are there fears to move on from? |
| 2:15.6 | And negative people to let go of. |
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