Inner Work 167: Develop a working relationship with fear (and stress, anxiety, discomfort, worry, etc.)
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
"The ability to process anxiety in a healthy way is critical to maintaining your quality of life. Anxiety is a reflection of your body chemistry changes when you are in an arousal state. Anxiety is both normal and necessary – it will never disappear. The harder you try to suppress anxiety, the stronger it will become. Thus, avoiding anxiety becomes its own stressor." - Dr. David Hanscom
With this episode of INNER WORK, I seek to normalize fear, anxiety, and discomfort as natural parts of our human experience.
Rather than trying to get rid of, fix, run away from, or ignore any of these normal human sensations and experiences, I will guide you in developing a "working relationship" with them - so you can live a joyful, free, abundant life while peacefully accepting the presence of these inevitable emotions (when they show up... because they will).
As an example, I share how I've developed a "working relationship" with imposter syndrome, in my own life and business.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast, a place to explore spiritual concepts, tools, and practices to deepen your healing and awakening. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm your host, Josephine Hartman, a certified intuitive healer and a Kashik Records practitioner and teacher. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm honored that you're here and happy to serve as a guide and companion on your path for a little while. |
| 0:32.6 | To learn more about how to work with me or study with me, please visit josephinehartman.com. |
| 0:40.8 | Hello, my friend and fellow seeker on the path. Welcome to Inner Work. I am so happy, so delighted, |
| 0:51.4 | and so honored that you are here with me, whether this is your first time |
| 0:56.5 | tuning in, or if you've been with me for a while, if you would like to support the creation |
| 1:04.2 | of this content and make sure that this podcast stays on the air, you can do so by contributing any amount that works for you |
| 1:14.9 | starting at $1 through the donation link in the show notes. Thank you so much for your support |
| 1:22.6 | and for your presence. So I want to start today's episode with a quote from Dr. David Hanscombe, |
| 1:35.1 | an expert in the field of resolving chronic pain, anxiety, and depression. I've been following his work lately, and it is very, very good |
| 1:48.3 | and highly recommended if you want to check that out. So Dr. Hanscombe says, the ability to process |
| 1:57.1 | anxiety in a healthy way is critical to maintaining your quality of life. |
| 2:04.0 | Anxiety is a reflection of your body chemistry changes when you are in an arousal state. |
| 2:12.9 | Anxiety is both normal and necessary. |
| 2:16.0 | It will never disappear. The harder you try to suppress anxiety, |
| 2:21.3 | the stronger it will become. Thus, avoiding anxiety becomes its own stressor. So that's the end of the |
| 2:31.2 | quote. And I feel this is such an important statement for a number of reasons. |
| 2:37.0 | So first, because it normalizes anxiety or the experience of having anxiety, which is ultimately a physiological reaction to perceiving some kind of threat, whether that threat is real or imagined, |
| 2:55.7 | or whether that threat is actually your own thoughts, so something coming from within yourself, |
| 3:03.1 | an internal threat, that is scaring you. |
| 3:13.5 | Something I recently discovered for myself, which has been life-changing, |
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