How to Break Your Anxiety Habit | Judson Brewer (2021)
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're sharing some of the best episodes in our archives about anxiety. Dr. Judson Brewer is a psychiatrist and deep dharma practitioner who argues that anxiety is a habit, and is one that you can unwind. This interview explores: what is anxiety; why Dr. Brewer views anxiety as a habit; how mindfulness can be harnessed to deal with anxiety; and if there is any level of stress or anxiety that is healthy.
Dr. Jud Brewer is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University and author of the New York Times Best Seller, Unwinding Anxiety. He has designed a number of apps that use mindfulness to treat addiction and anxiety, including Eat Right Now, Craving to Quit, and Unwinding Anxiety. You can also find Dr. Brewer on the Ten Percent Happier app where he teaches a mindful eating course.
Just a note: This episode is a rerun from March 2021. There are some references that might seem a little out of date, but the content remains relevant.
We're re-launching our ten-day meditation challenge, called the Taming Anxiety Challenge, over on the Ten Percent Happier app. To join the Challenge, just download the Ten Percent Happier app today wherever you get your apps or by visiting tenpercent.com. If you already have the app, just open it up and follow the instructions to join!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:08.2 | Hey, hey, some of the best performing episodes we've ever posted on this podcast feed |
| 0:15.8 | have to do with the subject of anxiety, which tells you a lot about the audience for this |
| 0:21.4 | show and also more importantly about the state of the world right now. |
| 0:25.8 | Today we're going to talk about what is anxiety really and should we be thinking about it |
| 0:31.1 | as a kind of mental habit. |
| 0:33.2 | Also how much can mindfulness really help all this week? |
| 0:37.0 | We're sharing some of the best episodes in our archives on the subject of anxiety. |
| 0:41.0 | We originally ran this interview with Dr. Judson Brewer last March near the one year anniversary |
| 0:46.8 | of the pandemic hitting America. |
| 0:49.4 | I was hoping that the references to COVID that you're going to hear here, here might be |
| 0:53.4 | outdated, but Omicron has made this interview more evergreen than any of us would have liked. |
| 1:00.3 | To help with any anxiety you may be feeling, we're also relaunching our companion 10-day |
| 1:04.7 | meditation challenge called the Taming Anxiety Challenge over on the 10% happier app. |
| 1:10.9 | When you sign up, you'll get videos and meditations specifically designed to help you tame your |
| 1:15.2 | anxiety as well as daily meditation reminders to keep you on track. |
| 1:20.0 | To join the challenge, just download the 10% happier app today wherever you get your apps |
| 1:24.3 | or by visiting 10% calm. |
| 1:27.1 | All one word spelled out. |
| 1:29.1 | If you already have the app, just open it up and follow the instructions to join. |
| 1:33.0 | Okay, let me get back to today's interview. |
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