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The Secret to Stopping Fear & Anxiety (That Actually Works)

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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Why You Can't Buy That Six Year Old?

When you get into a situation that makes you nervous or that makes you stressed out, those are states in your body of high agitation. What we're doing when we teach you to create a confidence anchor and to use excitement to reframe what you're feeling is we're taking a state of high agitation from the negative to aState of high agitation in the positive. Your brain actually doesn't know the difference between excitement and fear. It's just that your brain is framing it in the negative. If you come back to that confidence anchor, you are going to flip your brain into believing thatYou will no longer be afraid because your confidence anchor is related to what you're doing. When you imagine

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