April Seifert: How To Navigate Mental Maps of Anxiety
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
If we can all just agree that we are humans with brains and realize that brains tend to respond to times of uncertainty, change, and real threat in very predictable ways as anxiety, worry, and fear...then we can immediately be compassionate with ourselves because it just means that we're human. Every single person that is going through COVID19, they're human and they're experiencing what it means to be human which is: We react to our surroundings in these predictable ways. - April Seifert
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Wellness Force Radio Episode 342
Social-cognitive Psychologist, Life Design Strategist, Co-Host of the Building Psychological Strength Podcast, and Co-Founder of Peak Mind: The Center for Psychological Strength, April Seifert, shares why time and wealth are our most valuable gifts, what anxiety actually is, how to navigate rational and irrational thoughts, and how to build momentum by acting now.
Listen To Episode 342 As April Seifert Uncovers:
[1:30] What Anxiety Actually Is
- April Seifert
- Building Psychological Strength Podcast
- Peak Mind: The Center for Psychological Strength
- 0153 | How to EMBODY Psychological Strength with Josh Trent
- Leave Wellness Force a review on iTunes
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- Why Peak Mind psychology isn't just for athletes; it's for everyone. Her own traumas and personal hardships that she has experienced in life even from an early a
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | By saying I'm noticing that I'm having a thought you're putting psychological distance between you and your thoughts and that's what we mean when we say you are not them |
| 0:09.3 | You are also not your emotions. You are also not your bodily sensations of fear. So we began this conversation |
| 0:16.3 | around what does fear and anxiety and all of that mean. It is a bodily |
| 0:22.2 | emotional and thought process that's happening in your body and in |
| 0:27.8 | your mind but it is not you and you can be an observer of that and the more |
| 0:32.0 | distance you put between you and that process, the more you'll be able to move through it, feel it, and say, |
| 0:38.4 | okay, great, that's a thing that's happening that is nothing to do with my next step that I'm going to take. |
| 0:43.0 | That's April Seifert, and this is episode 342 of Wellness Force Radio. |
| 0:48.0 | Well, this Force Radio, we discover the physical and emotional intelligence to move life well. |
| 0:54.0 | You can have the same brain states as someone who's done an hour of meditation every day for 40 years. |
| 0:59.0 | There's a lot of losses that we go through, so the ability to be able to cope with those |
| 1:02.8 | losses is very important to build skill in it because loss will happen. |
| 1:07.0 | You know you have to have spiritual courage to really grow spiritually because if you |
| 1:12.1 | really want to take guidance from your soul you have |
| 1:14.8 | to be ready to realize that many of the things that you're asking for guidance on your ego |
| 1:19.0 | has some kind of an addiction to or an investment in. Hey, what's up? |
| 1:24.0 | What's good, my friend? |
| 1:25.0 | It's Josh Trent, and this is Wellness Force. |
| 1:28.0 | You made it to the podcast today. |
| 1:30.0 | You've already been listening, or maybe you're brand new and a friend sent you here. |
| 1:34.0 | Welcome man, welcome lady, welcome human. |
| 1:37.0 | This is where we explore both physical and emotional intelligence so we can live life well. |
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