One man, one mission. To rid the world of chronic anxiety once and for all, the anxiety guy Dennis Simpsick 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.

Episode number two, eighty, three. This is the anxiety guy podcast. I'm Dennis Simpsick. Thank you, yes you, for joining me today.

This podcast episode is brought to you by my latest book, F Coping Start Healing, which you can pick up on Amazon today and begin your journey to not only heal anxiety, but to become who you're meant to become.

Warriors? In this podcast episode, I want to talk about emptiness. That's right, emptiness. Before we go deep into emptiness, what I want you to do for a moment is, I want you to notice, just notice, what your association is to the word emptiness.

When I say that word, what sort of feelings arise within you? What sort of thoughts do you get? Do you look to reject that emptiness? Or are you looking to become more curious as to why you have maybe some negative associations towards it?

To heal, to heal anxiety. You must give up things, Warrior. You must give them up. Most importantly, you must give up your reputation and your temptations.

When I mean reputation, I'm talking about the person you are looking to preserve.

The characters you're looking to preserve. Each and every day we wake up, we go to work, and we put up the mask. The mask is mainly connected to what others want to see within us. We never bring out our true selves. We're always lying to ourselves.

And this reputation, whether it be at work or anywhere else, needs to go. Because when you can give up this reputation, only then will you be free.

As well, your temptations, these temptations that lead you down a path of being overly stimulated, feeling like you always have to do something else.

Healing has a lot to do with doing, but it also has a lot to do with not doing. Because many times when we don't do, we learn the most about ourselves and what the next steps are. So we must find that balance.

Human beings tend to want to keep what they have rather than gain something new out of fear. How true is this for anxiety suffers?

We have this instinct within us that says, oh my goodness, keep what you have. Because if you risk it all, people may not understand you. They may disconnect from you.

You won't know who you are, yada yada yada. So we never put ourselves in a place to create, but we're always, always, always looking to prevent.

Let's say you're going on a plane and you've got a fear of planes. Well, you're going to look to prevent any kind of anxious or panicky feelings.

When in fact, you could create a new association, a new feeling towards that plane. You could love that plane, the pilot, everyone in there. You could be so connected in that moment, but yet you choose to prevent.

This is wrong. And we must see beyond our wrongs.

Anxiety is a built up, comfortable relationship with stress hormones, my friends. Stress hormones that we're looking to avoid while at the same time cannot seem to get out of due to familiarity.

It's so familiar to be stressed, isn't it? It's so familiar to be anxious. It almost feels like it's who you are, who you are, an identity, an I am connected to anxiety. Why?

Familiararity. Ah, yes. Anything that is familiar, we gravitate towards. Anything that is unfamiliar, unless we have a high level of awareness in that moment, we will reject.

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