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Hi, my name's Andy, and welcome to Radio Head Space. So it's Wednesday morning and it's a good

a time as any to ask yourself, have you ever really considered how you see yourself and if the thoughts related to that are

actually true or not. It's always surprised me over the years as I've met people

traveling around speaking to people

we all as human beings we tend to have a very sort of fixed idea of who we are what

we're about and very often that ends up defining how we live our life.

So I've met so many people who, you know, they'll tell me about an incredible sort of

opportunity or something that's kind of come their way and they say, oh, I couldn't possibly do that. I said why not? Well I'm just an anxious person or I'm this kind of person.

And so I always sort of suggest digging into that a little bit to try and see if there's any way of not changing it but just to really understand kind of what that means when we take an idea that we might have projected into the world or that might have been projected onto us by others, and when we take hold of it,

make it kind of who we are, it's really important that we dig into that and better understand it,

because we might just be shortchanging ourselves in the process.

Let's say it's worry.

We're someone who worries a lot or we're fearful a lot in some way.

Let's start actually looking for the anxiety and this person say,

I haven't got time for these games. I'm too busy.

Although it may sound like a game in the same way that if we had

something wrong physically we would take time to investigate and explore the

body to better understand what it is in just the same way in the mind we need to

explore and better understand what it is so I would say when you're anxious where do you

feel the anxiety and they might sit and they say oh well I normally get it sort of in my chest or in my stomach or you know I feel this kind of sensation and we go through a process.

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