Understanding the Role of Attention and Awareness in Your Anxiety Recovery
The Anxiety Guy Podcast
Dennis Simsek
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Today I will share with you the true differences between awareness and attention. One of these will bring calm and balance to your nervous system during this time of healing anxiety, while the other will fuel further symptoms of anxiety. Today we take a major step forward in your anxiety recovery together.
In this episode of the anxiety guy podcast you will learn,
- How the attention you give perpetuates your fears
- Why awareness is so important to build up as a skill set for anxiety recovery
- The true definition of healing an anxiety disorder
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Remember, you are more than anxiety. See you soon!
Dennis
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On today's episode of the Anxiety Guide Podcast, we're talking about awareness versus |
| 0:05.7 | attention and how it affects your anxiety recovery. Warriors, let's go. |
| 0:14.8 | This is Dennis Simpson from the AnxietyGuide.com and you're listening to the Anxiety Guide Podcast. |
| 0:24.7 | Are you ready? Let's become more than Anxiety Together. |
| 0:30.1 | Right now, let's go. Welcome, welcome, welcome to another episode of the Anxiety Guide Podcast episode |
| 0:39.3 | number 387. In fact, wow, have we done that many episodes? Warriors, before I get into this episode, |
| 0:47.6 | I want to remind you that all my anxiety recovery programs have been made with you in mind. |
| 0:54.7 | The suffer from anxiety. And whether you're suffering from panic disorder, |
| 1:01.3 | health anxiety, generalized anxiety, or just want to clear your traumas and childhood experiences, |
| 1:08.4 | head over to the AnxietyGuide.com today and find the right program for you. Friends, in this |
| 1:15.4 | episode, we're going to be discussing the difference between awareness and attention. Because |
| 1:23.5 | there's a big difference. And when you can begin practicing one over the other, what's going to |
| 1:32.0 | happen is you're going to bring forward a batch of new perceptions and new interpretations around |
| 1:41.2 | the things that you fear. And I want to go back to my personal experience for a second if I may. |
| 1:48.4 | I used to be very afraid of developing some kind of a disease. I used to be very afraid of the |
| 1:56.3 | judgments of other people. I used to be afraid if I only slept seven hours instead of eight. I used |
| 2:04.1 | to be afraid of how my fear was going to manifest throughout the day. There was a lot of symptom |
| 2:12.1 | stress in my life, the fear of fear. And so it became chronic after a while and one attached to |
| 2:20.1 | the other. And it's spider web from one thing to the other. And I really couldn't find any joy |
| 2:26.1 | in my life. Forget joy. I couldn't find any emotional neutrality, any mental neutrality. Until |
| 2:36.1 | I started recognizing the difference between having awareness versus paying attention. |
| 2:43.5 | Awareness is to be generally aware of a number of different things, okay, but not be pulled towards |
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