Welcome guys and gals to the Man Talks show. I'm Connor Beaton, the host and founder of Man Talks.

And today I'm going to do a little special on how to quiet your mind.

I've had a lot of people reach out to me over the past few years, not just a few months,

and ask me about how to deal with their anxiety, how to face their depression, how to overcome the incessant sense of the inner critic, constantly chirping over their shoulder and telling them stories

that they're not good enough or smart enough or kind enough or successful enough or good

looking enough.

The story goes on and on.

And maybe you are one of those people

who has dealt with that. And maybe you're one of those people who has a very fast mind. One of the

things that I've learned over the years is that everyone's mind, until they become aware of it has its own speed everyone's mind

goes at a certain pace and sometimes you can hear this in their speech sometimes you can hear this

in their body language and what i mean by that is you can watch

them and see all the all the nervousness in their hands and in their feet and then their legs

bouncing around and and their constant shifting around in position and eyes darting all

over the place not being able to be still.

And all of that is often a representation of their inner working, of their inner body, their

inner mind. And the body actually is its own mind in many ways. There are more pathways leading

from the body to the brain than there are pathways

leading from the brain to the body. So clearly the body has an immense amount of information

that is getting sent to the brain that is dictating a lot of what's happening in the brain.

And most of the time, much of the time, people's minds are racing not just because their minds

are uneasy, not just because there is an inner critic or a sabotager lurking in the background,

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