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Anxiety Is a Habit — Here's How to Break It

The Art of Manliness

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The Third Part Is Creating a Better Offer for Your Brain

When we experience anxiety, what if instead of running away from it, we turn toward it? This is called disenchantment. We can ask ourselves, do i really want to do this again? And like you described, a social media relly, this doesn't feel so good. So after disenchanted the maladaptive behaviour, whether it's worrying or eating or smoking, whatever, the third part is creatingwhat you call a bigger, better offer for your brain. Being curious feels better and here we can actually get at the root cause of the issue. The problem there is that we feed it by worrying or pushing it away. Instead, we can tap into things that

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