How to avoid this common anxiety mistake and get help with anxious thoughts

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast. Today Ananga and I are discussing the first
0:17.8	mistake we make when anxiety strikes and what you can do to calm your mind
0:22.4	and get back to living your life?
0:24.4	Hey Ananga, hey Shen. So good to be with you again this week. So in your opinion,
0:31.8	what is the first mistake that we make with anxiety?
0:36.1	In my opinion and my experience, we just get caught in the thoughts.
0:40.8	We get caught right up in the thoughts and think we can think our way out.
0:47.0	Which is just never the case.
0:49.0	No, and it's such an awful muddling experience that just feeds right back into the anxiety.
0:56.0	We take the anxious thoughts seriously, we believe the propaganda, and then we start trying to think around it and it is just feeding right back in.
1:06.5	Yeah, very sticky, very, you just, you do, you get very stuck in it and the persistence and the regeneration and the
1:15.4	looping around and all of the stuff that that we've all experienced is not going
1:22.0	to break free. We're not going to be able to break free from that by thinking about it some more.
1:27.0	No, and that's what we tend to try and try and do, yeah.
1:32.0	What we also know is that these thoughts are incredibly resistant to change.
1:40.6	They tend to be very stubborn.
1:43.6	Anxious thoughts are stubborn, they're hard to shift,
1:46.5	and they love to break into our peaceful moments.
1:50.8	And if we try to push them away or force ourselves to not think about something that's worrying us,
1:56.0	it seems like that anxious thought will often just bounce back with even more energy, more veracity.
2:03.3	Yeah, sometimes I think of it like mental tennis, you're trying to hit that ball back
2:09.0	that keeps coming at you and it just comes right back over the net.
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