Hello, hello, this is Kara Loanthyle, your guest host for the week.

Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday.

This week is all about how to live with less insecurity and more confidence.

Today I'm going to talk about how confidence issues can show up as anxiety,

and I'll share a simple way to keep those anxious thoughts from spiraling out of control.

In my work particularly I look a lot at how women are taught to think and how that contributes

to ever present anxiety and security about most areas of their lives.

And mentally if you are taught that your value comes from what other people think about

you, whatever gender you are, if that's a lesson that you picked up along the way,

you're going to be pretty anxious most of the time because you don't have an inherent

and stable sense of self-worth.

The way that you can resolve and change your anxiety is to get super curious about the

anxiety itself.

I think there are two types of people.

One type of person is very aware that they have negative emotion and they are constantly

trying to get away from it.

And so if that's you, if you are sort of very aware when you are sad or anxious or afraid,

then the practice is allowing that emotion so you can even practice thinking to yourself

it's safe to feel this.

This emotion is just a sensation in my body and then you can start to ask yourself why

am I feeling this?

It's really a deceptively simple question.

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