How to unwind anxiety - using a paradoxical but powerful approach: Dr Guy Meadows
A New Way of Being
Simon Mundie
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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No one likes experiencing uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, like anxiety. However, the more we fight our internal experience, the more likely it is to fight back. Rather than resisting the internal experience we don't want to feel, by urning towards them and even welcoming them - it can have a powerful positive effect, as Dr. guy explains.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to a new way of being. This episode is all about learning to live with and accept uncomfortable thoughts and |
| 0:23.5 | feelings. Now that's something that a lot of us don't want to do. I know that's certainly been true of me. |
| 0:29.3 | However, the more we resist uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, the more they persist. So paradoxically, |
| 0:35.5 | if we can welcome them and accept them, that's when they can start |
| 0:39.9 | to dissipate and unravel. This conversation is with Dr. Guy Meadow. So it's about insomnia |
| 0:46.4 | specifically, which I really badly struggled with in my 20s until I had a conversation with Guy |
| 0:53.3 | all about acceptance and commitment therapy, |
| 0:55.5 | which has such a big impact on my life, generally speaking. |
| 0:58.9 | Even though we're talking about sleep in this episode, this approach can be applied to any |
| 1:03.0 | situation in which you feel uncomfortable and perhaps anxious thoughts and feelings. |
| 1:11.7 | The basis of your work is acceptance and commitment therapy. |
| 1:16.3 | That's exactly it. |
| 1:17.2 | So do you want to, let's get into the nuts and bolts of it then? |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.0 | So we've, I use traditional cognitive behaviour therapy for insomnia for a number of years. |
| 1:26.6 | And it is effective, but it wasn't as |
| 1:28.9 | effective as I wanted it to be or my clients wanted it to be. And I began to, you know, bring in |
| 1:36.0 | more acceptance-based principles. And one of those being mindfulness. And, you know, this is, |
| 1:41.8 | we're talking about a time when, you know, mindfulness, as you sort of mentioned in the beginning, mindfulness was not wildly known, you know that this is we're talking about a time when you know mindfulness as you |
| 1:44.9 | sort of mentioned in the beginning mindfulness was not wildly known you know back then there were only a few |
| 1:49.2 | spots in london which you could could do could do it and most of it was connected to sort of |
| 1:53.0 | you know a Buddhist center or something like that you know but so acceptance and commitment |
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