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Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, we're talking

about Fear as False evidence appearing real.

It can be a good way to remember things by using an acronym and I thought we would go over the very popular and you've probably heard it many times

acronym Fear false evidence appearing real and maybe we could look at this and see how this could actually be a part of

how we are viewing fear and how we are letting fear and watching false evidence as appearing real keep us in that loop,

that cycle of fear, adrenaline fear. The mind thinking one thing, the body responding, and then the mind feeling

validated by how the body's feeling and saying okay I guess there really is a problem I

better keep going in this direction pumping out more adrenaline, cortisol, things to keep this little body safe.

Let it run, let it go get protection.

And so that's coming from our mind and that's the cycle that we're in.

Fear, adrenaline, fear. Our mind, our body, our mind. It just keeps going around and round.

And one does feed the other.

We need to remember this, that we are complete and whole.

We can't have just the mind doing things and just the body

doing things. They influence each other and they do all the time. When we're safe and we're playing out future scenarios in our heads,

and we can say there's no true threat, no immediate physical danger, no threat of loss of someone or

something dear to us, actually nothing there at all. When we can say that, we can say that

that fear, false evidence appearing real, is an illusion. This is happening in our minds. We are letting those things that

tend to just float through our mind, thoughts being that we are

thought-making machines, we are letting those thoughts

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