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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I want to talk about

the anxious yet very changeable brain and I think this is really good news.

I hope that you will feel the goodness of all of this. When we talk about the changeable brain, what we're

talking about is that we used to believe that our brain was hardwired when we reached adulthood and maybe you are young enough to not have had that belief because science since you've been around was talking about the plasticity of the

brain but I was you know in that camp that by the time you reached adulthood your brain was pretty

much hardwired and this is just not so and so we are always learning something

new every day and science is unfolding things and we have to be grateful for that because we can understand ourselves a little bit better.

This understanding of the changeable brain or the

neuroplasticity has given rise to many ways of being of us being able to retrain the brain.

Finding our way out of the anxiety wormhole

requires a lot of new neuropathways and while we're making those new ones we have to be

simultaneously letting go of the old ones that kept us stuck and in fear.

And this is an incredible process that happens.

And the brain actually uses the material of the old ones that are being broken down in in building these new

narrow pathways it's quite fascinating the brain actually changes whether we are training it or not. This is important to know.

So we can't just run on default because the brain is going to change whether we are being aware and conscious of

where it's going and training it or not. So we do well to be aware of what we are letting the brain adapt to with our experiences.

And our experiences play a big part in how we are being able to keep the brain going in a direction of

peace and calm or if we're letting it go into stress and anxiety and overwhelm. We get to train it. So this is one of the reasons that I talk about

mindfulness here a lot because mindfulness is so powerful. When we are mindful we are being conscious and aware of much more than

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