One man, one mission, to rid the world of chronic anxiety once and for all.

The anxiety guy, Dennis Simpson, shares his personal transformation from living a life filled with overwhelming worry to becoming a full-fledged positivity machine.

A leading authority in generalizing anxiety, Dennis gets to the truth of your mental health challenges

and sets you on a path to transforming each and every area of your life.

Here he is, the one and only, the anxiety guy.

My friends, welcome to episode number two, 97.

I'm Dennis Simpson and I am grateful for your time and attention today.

Yes, the health anxiety program is now out at the anxiety guy.com under health anxiety.

12 weeks to freedom from your health anxiety begins today at the anxiety guy.com.

Warriors, today's podcast episode is to recognize whether you are being led by theory or practicality in your healing.

Many anxiety suffers are experts at the subject, but being an expert and focusing entirely on relying on theory to heal yourself will not heal yourself.

You can read all the books, you can take all the courses, you can understand everything there is to understand about the subject.

But if there is no practicality in there, then guess what? Nothing is going to change. Rarely do I see it.

If you are highly focused on practicality, then you are missing out on the understanding.

Because yes, you can have the skillsets and you can implement, implement and you can get to a better place mentally and emotionally,

but I'm going to focus on later on telling you where the weaknesses lie within relying solely on practicality.

So what is our goal? Our goal in healing and moving forward in our lives is to recognize that we have the balance between theory and practicality in not only healing anxiety, but within anything that we want to change.

Theory is mainly head-driven. You are driven by your head. Practicality is heart-driven. You are driven mainly by your heart.

Theory equals a deep understanding, whereas practicality equals a tighter connection with. You can see that when you implement skillsets, for example, reframing practices that you're learning through my latest book, F. Coping Start Healing,

if you're learning responding techniques, how to respond to the inner child within that moment of fear, you find a tighter connection with this journey and the inner child subconscious mind.

But with theory, yes, you can understand something very, very deeply, but you will plateau. You'll hit that place where you go while I know a lot.

I can help other people, but I find it very difficult to help myself. These are people that rely solely on understanding anxiety to heal themselves.

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