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

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

Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

In today's episode, I am continuing on a little bit here with our brains hardwiring and

how that affects our anxiety.

And in episode that I did, oh, I think it must have been just the other day, episode 709,

I took a look at negativity bias.

And today I want to explore more, actually four ways that our brains are also hardwired,

so that we can feel that our brain is not working so much against us.

It may be the way that it's wired, but when we understand it, we don't have to be so,

you know, put off by getting caught and going down the wormhole with these negativity biases,

but things that we can do that can keep us understanding it, being aware of it and

that awareness is so key.

And then we can see what parts of it may be causing us some distress.

This is from an article that will also be linked in the show notes for you.

And it starts out here talking about how, you know, we really think that we have our

thinking altogether.

We think we're objective, we're rational, but really our minds, our brains, our hardwired

to see the world in more of an egocentric frame of reference.

And this information can really distort or lose a lot of the things that are coming towards

us, or we can even find ourselves making things up, like we're inventing things.

So over the course of evolution, the brain has evolved many different mechanisms for

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