How to Understand Anxiety and See Threats Clearly

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 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.

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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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