Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore

anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them from life.

Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

In today's episode, I want to talk about understanding the negativity bias.

And the reason I want you to have a better understanding of this is because it can really

help us to ease our stress and anxiety that when we understand that we are built in a

particular way, we don't have to be thinking that there is something so horribly wrong with

us.

Our brains are simply built with a greater sensitivity to unpleasant news.

We stick to it.

What's the old saying?

The negative sticks to us like Velcro and the positive, beautiful acts and thoughts

just slip away like they were on Teflon.

So that's the way we're built.

And the more we can understand that maybe the kinder we can be to ourselves.

And I had an article here.

I will put a link to the whole article in the show notes, but I have going to pull a couple

of pieces out here because it really caught my attention.

And I thought it was important to share.

This article begins by talking about a work around, working around the negativity bias

for anxiety.

And it begins by saying, and I'm quoting here, the human brain has a negativity bias.

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