One man, one mission. To rid the world of chronic anxiety once and for all, the anxiety guy Dennis Simpsick shares his personal transformation from living a life filled with overwhelming worry to becoming a full-fledged positivity machine.

A leading authority in generalizing anxiety, Dennis gets to the truth of your mental health challenges and sets you on a path to transforming each and every area of your life.

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Warrior, welcome to episode number 295. You're listening to the anxiety guy podcast. I'm Dennis Simpsick and I'm grateful to connect with you here today to help you, to guide you, to show you the path towards freedom. Let's do this.

Today, we're discussing the power of outside thinking before we do. I want to share some exciting news with you.

My newest book, my third book, is coming out very, very soon on Amazon. Beyond anxiety, what to expect on your path towards freedom.

I can't wait for you to read this book. Updates will be shared on our new Facebook page, our support group on Facebook, and on Instagram at the anxiety guy.

So make sure that you follow one of those and I cannot wait to get your feedback from this very important read going forward.

Today, we're going to discuss the power of outside thinking. Outside thinking, to give you a description, is kind of like sitting in a movie theater and watching an idea, a thought on a movie screen, but not being the screen itself.

Can you imagine if this was the daily occurrence in your life? How different would your life be if you didn't attach to every single catastrophic idea that arises?

I know some of you are going, oh, that would be so nice. But remember, hope doesn't get us very far. So let's leave that world and let's do the work starting today.

There is power in outside thinking because we feel detached from thinking.

The moment we have an idea, we start to look at it from the outside, not the inside, and therefore we create distance from that idea.

We no longer identify with that idea. We no longer believe in that idea. We don't get emotional because of that idea.

Can you imagine the power that lies within outside thinking, oh, there is another idea? I have the choice. I can either follow this idea and create other stories based around this idea or I can see it as an idea.

That's where the power lies, and there's so much of this that you can learn from stoicism today. In fact, stoic practices I highly recommend Seneca's books.

The problem isn't the intrusive thought. It's the psychological and physiological snowball that occurs because of the intrusive thought.

Many people come to me and say, Dennis, my thoughts are driving me crazy. Well, first of all you're not thinking, you're replaying the same idea as daily.

Number two, it's not the thought itself, but it's where the thought is bringing you psychologically and physiologically that's the problem.

If the thought was left alone, if the thought didn't have any power and oomph behind it, there would be no feelings, there would be no emotions,

there would be no actions that support the idea. So it's not the thought that bothers us. It's what occurs because of the thought.

A screaming child that's left alone eventually stops screaming. It gets tired and it goes to bed.

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