Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough and this is episode 863. Now in today's episode, we're

talking about how to overcome anxiety in seven steps. Now when I say overcome anxiety, it is

absolutely possible in every single way because I know, because I used to feel it. I used to always

be anxious, probably one of the biggest symptoms. I'm going to say symptoms for a certain reason,

which will dive into. But I used to feel the symptom of anxiety throughout my day, probably for most of the week and the month and the year,

all the way for the first 18 years of my life until I discovered I could not keep on being this way.

So the first thing that usually people do, number one, is try to sedate themselves from anxiety.

So ask yourself, if I experience anxiety, what kind of behaviours, what kind of habits am I implementing to sedate the anxiety?

Or escapism.

Now, for some, it could be drinking.

For some, it could be smoking. Some people could be eating, some people could be just

Staying home in your comfort zone. It's a form of

Changing your emotional state, but if we are going to stop it, if we're going to quit the anxiety and actually shine because of the anxiety, you have to accept the reality

that you are experiencing anxiety. And I say experiencing because it is just, just, feels really

huge and big, but it is just an experience.

In other words, it's a strategy that you are presently failing,

and that means you have the possibility of a new experience.

So in order to deal with it, we've got to acknowledge it.

We've got to accept that right now I'm anxious. I'm an

anxious person. Right now I'm an anxious person. Right now I feel anxiety. It doesn't mean that

is who you are. It's just what you're presently doing. That's your present experience and it can

be for many variety of reasons in your past. It could have been some big huge events in your

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