90% of the population identifies as suffering from anxiety.

Okay, so 90% are affected by anxiety.

Is it possible for us to change the way we think about anxiety and start to heal our brain,

heal our mindset around the topic of anxiety so that it doesn't affect us

or consume us in our life. Is that possible? Absolutely. It is possible. And I think the first step

is to realize that anxiety and our stress response, which is causing all those negative feelings,

evolutionarily, that is a protective mechanism.

It is necessary for our survival.

It was and it is necessary.

So it was evolved so that if there is a lion coming at us or a dangerous situation that you're in,

that you automatically have that increased heart rate, that increased

respiration. All the blood goes to your muscle so you can run away. Our problem is that in this

day and time, there's not a lot of lines coming at us, but there's all the worry that we see

every single day when we look in the newspaper and look at their Instagram feeds.

And that worry of a possible terrible thing

that might happen that also activates our stress

and anxiety systems.

So but it is there for protection.

How do we harness that and bring it back into submission

so it can help us in the way that

it was developed or evolved to help us?

That is, to put us into action.

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