Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not

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I've been doing it for nine and a half years now, almost 10 years. So if you want to grow yourself with me, hit that subscribe button. Today, I'm going to be talking about your

anxiety and how to stop feeling so anxious about your anxiety. I'm going to take you through the ultimate

guide to beating your anxiety. And we're also going to talk about why anxiety exists in the first place.

And if you can understand why anxiety exists and why it's in us, it makes it easier to work through it.

And so, you know, I'm going to give you evidence-based strategies to overcome your

anxiety. And there was a study that was done in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders, which has got to be a

really fun journal to read. The Journal of Anxiety Disorders have found that anxiety has gone up over

300% over the numbers that they had pre-pandemic levels.

And so anxiety is on the rise. But anxiety itself is very natural. And so people are like,

I want to get rid of my anxiety. And I'm like, no, you want to get rid of certain aspects of

your anxiety. Because anxiety is a natural response to fear into stress, into uncertainty, and more specifically

perceived threats.

And so if you have anxiety when you're walking down, like you start getting a real anxious feeling,

when you're walking in the dark, going through a crowded dark room and you start getting a real anxious feeling when you're walking in the dark, going through a

crowded dark room and you start getting anxious, well, maybe that's something that's telling you

you should be anxious so that you protect yourself. Or if you're going through a dark alley

and you get anxious, that's a good thing. But when you're anxious and feel anxiety, when you're

sitting in your house watching watching TV, or just

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