Hi, my name is Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace.

So it's Wednesday morning and it's a good time as any to ask yourself, have you ever

really considered how you see yourself and if the thoughts related to that are actually

true or not?

It always surprised me over the years as I've met people travelling around speaking to

people.

We are as human beings.

We tend to have a very sort of fixed idea of who we are, what we're about.

And very often that ends up defining how we live our lives.

I've met so many people who, you know, they'll tell me about an incredible sort of opportunity

or something that's kind of come their way and they say, oh, I couldn't possibly do that.

I say, oh, why not?

Well, I'm just an anxious person or I'm this kind of person.

And so I always sort of suggest digging into that a little bit to try and see if there's

any way of not changing it, but just to really understand kind of what that means.

When we take an idea that we might have projected into the world or that might have been projected

onto us by others and when we take hold of it, make it kind of who we are, it's really

important that we dig into that and better understand it because we might just be short

of changing ourselves in the process.

Let's say it's worry.

We're someone who worries a lot or we're fearful a lot in some way.

Let's start actually looking for the anxiety and as far as I say, I haven't got time for

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