How to stop your mind dwelling on unwanted 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

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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627: This week, on the Anxiety Slayer Podcast, we’re sharing some wisdom teachings on the nature of the mind, and how to stop getting caught in anxious thoughts. You can find out more about the teachings in this podcast in our How to Calm Your Fragile Mind Course on Teachable

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0:14.9	Welcome back to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shannon Vanderbilt, here with my wonderful friend and co-host and
0:19.1	Ananga Civier. Today we're going to be talking about how to stop dwelling on unwelcome thoughts.
0:26.0	Welcome back, Ananga.
0:28.0	This is an excellent topic for us to discuss because I know both of us sometimes still find
0:37.1	ourselves dwelling on unwelcome thoughts even though we know what we need to do and thankfully
0:42.2	have those resources so that we can get past that quickly.
0:46.1	So let's talk more about this.
0:48.0	How can we stop dwelling on unwelcome thoughts?
0:50.9	Well as you just mentioned Shannon is, it is an ongoing thing.
0:54.4	The mind will repeatedly chip in.
0:58.0	When we get into difficulties, when we believe it's propaganda when we listen to it. So for all of us, this is going to be ongoing work.
1:06.4	We can't stop the thoughts.
1:08.3	We can grow better thoughts.
1:10.7	We can slow them down, but we can't stop the mind.
1:14.8	So I think the key word here is in dwelling in listening to the chattering of the mind.
1:21.5	That's where we can really make a change.
1:24.0	We mentioned a few weeks ago on a podcast,
1:26.0	What had really helped me with overcoming anxiety,
1:28.0	which was some wisdom teachings from the Vedas,
1:32.0	the Bug of a Gita, which is the key, life manual and wisdom text of the
1:38.1	Vedas and that really gave me great understanding into the nature of my mind and how to work better with it, how to
1:45.7	bring it more under control and free myself from its tyranny because at that time in my life my
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