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

why mindfulness helps with anxiety. You know once people come to grips with the

role of anxiety and the consequences of avoidance in anxiety they often become more motivated to really give

mindfulness a real good try, using it as one of the ways to heal their mind and body.

It's like stopping and actually turning toward the anxiety

versus trying to get away from it, which is what we do so many times for so long, years, decades even, with

anxiety. We think we need to get away from it.

And this is a huge recognition and a huge step that we take

by turning and stopping toward the anxiety.

And using mindfulness to do this is key. It's actually what you need to have in order to turn and look anxiety right in the eye. You have to be mindful, you need to be aware.

So this is a huge step because using mindfulness with anxiety is finding ways to actually be with the discomfort,

this discomfort that we were trying so hard to get away from for so long.

Mindfulness increases the capacity to be with and to fully experience anxiety as a passing phenomenon.

And that's important to remember anxiety is a passing event. It is not

something that is concrete and set in stone for the rest of our lives but that's how it feels when it's happening

and that's why we react and behave and respond in the ways that we do.

Of course we would want to get away from it when it feels that strong and that permanent.

The new path of mindfulness teaches how to get out of the thought stream, but not by fighting, ignoring, or stopping

the anxious and stressful thoughts, but by creating a new habit of moving the attention to something other than the endless passing

thoughts in our minds. And that's another point to remember. These things that are

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