How to Understand Anxiety and See Threats Clearly

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We’re living in an anxious time, and part of the reason we’re anxious is because there are very real challenges we face both individually and collectively. But we’re also affected by the natural tendencies of the brain, which is easily influenced by fear and threat. On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson focus on how we can see threats clearly and be the “right amount” of concerned. Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 1:20: Why is it hard for us to see threats without excessive worry? 3:35: Transcending evolutionary influences toward fear 6:30: The last time Rick took LSD 10:45: Discerning what’s valuable in our anxieties, and leaving the rest 15:45: Forrest’s apartment fire story 17:35: Disagreements in evaluating a threat between people 21:55: Probability of risk 25:00: Practical techniques to assess threats with more clarity 29:30: Existential acceptance 33:30: Help for anxiety about anxiety 37:15: Recap New Course From Rick! Learn the lessons of a lifetime in the new and improved Foundations of Wellbeing 2.0 program. This yearlong, online program teaches you how to grow the 12 key inner strengths that lead to lasting wellbeing during difficult times. Our New Year's sale is running now, and you can use the code BeingWell25 to get an additional 25% off the purchase price. Sponsors: Wondrium helps you learn anything! Right now, Wondrium is offering our listeners 50% OFF their first three months. Sign up today at wondrium.com/beingwell. Being Well is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.
0:10.7	If you're new to the podcast, thanks for joining us today.
0:13.5	And if you've listened to before, welcome back.
0:16.2	One of the topics that we get the most questions about is dealing with anxiety.
0:20.2	We're living in a very anxious time for a lot of people.
0:24.4	And part of the reason that we're anxious is because there are very real challenges
0:28.7	out there that we're facing, both individually in our own lives and collectively as a group
0:33.9	as a society.
0:35.4	But we're also influenced by the natural tendencies of the brain, which is easily influenced
0:40.4	by fear and threat.
0:42.8	So today we're going to be focusing on how we can see those threats more clearly and become
0:47.4	the right amount of concern.
0:49.8	I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick is a clinical psychologist, a best-selling
0:54.6	author, and he's also my dad.
0:56.6	So dad, how are you doing today?
0:58.3	I'm doing great, and I love this topic, dealing with anxiety has been personally extremely
1:04.2	useful.
1:05.2	Yeah, totally the same for me.
1:06.7	I've said on the podcast in the past that if I tend in a direction, you know, people
1:11.0	contend maybe more toward anxiety or anger or sadness, I'm definitely on the anxious
1:16.4	side of the spectrum.
1:17.8	So I'm glad that we're going to be talking about this today.
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